Drunk Driving Continued..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyHdt_Wvn1w&NR=1

This video is also about preventing drunk drivers from being on the road. The only difference is that this video focuses on teens that are drinking and driving. It had a very emotional appeal because it shows many of the consequences that could happen. Its main audience are those that are teens or under the age of 21.

It starts off showing some children and it says that they when they were young they didn’t know any better because they didn’t have to make so many choices. As they start getting older it shows them drinking at parties and having fun with one another. It doesn’t seem so bad at first until it shows them once they get behind the wheel of a car after drinking.

One of the consequences it shows from drinking and driving is a bloody person lying outside of a car. This is emotional because it shows how someone can really be injured by a drunk driver. Another consequence it shows is a guy in handcuffs. Drinking and driving can get people in serious trouble with the law. If a person is not 21, they can get in a lot more trouble because it is against the law for them to be drinking in the first place. They probably put this in the video to show teens that they can get in serious trouble. There was another part of the video that showed someone being taken out on a stretcher. These images make you feel really sorry for the people that die or are injured in these accidents. The one image that hit me the most was a bunch of men carrying someone in a casket. That was very emotional because it was someone that died over something dumb like alcohol.

No one ever wants to live with the fact that they killed somebody else because of alcohol. The best way to prevent it is to stay off the road if you’ve been drinking. Most teens have a curfew and sometimes they feel like they have to go home or they will be grounded. If they think logically, they realize that being grounded would be better than sitting in jail or killing another person. Drinking and driving is very risky and this video did a good job in trying to prevent it.

At one point in the video it says, “Don’t become a statistic.” One statistic about drunk driving is that alcohol related car accidents kill someone every 30 minutes. Another statistic is that 40 percent of fatalities in car accidents are alcohol related. One in every four car accidents is because of teenage drunk driving. Nobody wants to be a part of these statistics and we don’t have to be. We can save ourselves and others by not driving drunk.

The music appeals to the audience as well as the images. The song is “Hurt” by Christina Aguilera. It is about someone who dies. It is a slow song and it relates to the video so it makes the video seem more emotional. The images were the most appealing thing because they show how bad things are when an drunk driving accident actually occurs. Teenagers that look at this video might think twice about driving drunk because they can see what kind of damage they might actually do.