Why I Chose This Report

The reasons I chose this report are very similar to the reasons I chose Kristy Kato's report.  I was, and still am interested in how images that are portrayed on television and the big screen influence the behavior of the general population.  The title of Brandi's report caught my eye and I thought it would have been a good report to read for some background information about driving behavior on television.

How I Found This Report

Once again I found this report on another person's generational file.  Apparently this individual and I have similar interests because most of the reports that interests me interested him too, and also, most of the reports he used for his generations exercise, I am using for mine too.  I guess in that respect I was a little lucky, but it did take me awhile before I stumbled across his generational file.

Report Summary

This report basically points out and explains driving behavior on popular television and movies.  Brandi goes a bit farther then to just point out and explain, she also developed an evaluation or more like an investigation on the degree of which these driving behaviors can influence the general population.  She looked at ten different examples of driving behaviors portrayed on television and in the movies.  She then developed a rating system, which had 3 different categories.  The first category is prominence, the amount of time the program is being viewed; realistic nature, which is whether or not the viewer might say to him/herself "I could do that"; and lastly danger involved, which is the risk of injury to the driver, passenger, or any bystanders.  She then adds up the points and gives us the combined total of the three categories, the highest possible is ten.

Reaction

My initial reaction to this report was discouragement.  I thought that this report, unlike the other "portrayals of driving behavior on TV" reports, would indicate whether these images actually had an effect on people.  I thought there might have been some evidence, or cross references to studies conduct on this subject matter in her report.  I found that this was not the case.  Although her report was not what I had expected it to be, I was very impressed with the organization of her report, especially her rating system.  It was very easy to read and understand.

Comparison

This report was easy to read and very interesting.  Unlike the other reports, Brandi gave her report a little twist, I'm not saying the other reports were bad because they were very good, it's just that Brandi added a rating system that I particularly liked, it made her report easier to read and understand.