Project Questions and Answers

Your group may work together to come up with the answers. But each of you will be given a grade based on your blog entry. It's OK if they are the same IF they're really good. 

1. Which of the 8 rules of Media Literacy is illustrated in the Beauty and Body Image article? Why and how?
2. The article on advertising to children is a great example of media constructing reality (#2 rule of Media Literacy). Can you think of an example of media constructed reality aimed at teens? Tell me what it is and how it constructs reality.
3. The commercial implications (#4) of media literacy are illustrated in The Economics of Ethnicity link. Do you think most media does a good job of showing what your real life is like? The number of minority people you see daily, the kinds of problems you have in real life, the way those problems get solved - are these things that you see in TV shows, movies and advertising?

Hopefully, answering these questions will help you understand what media literacy is and guide you in making your presentation. You will be graded on evidence that you read and discussed the articles and the thoroughness of your answer. It's important that you get this job done today. If you don't finish in class, do it for homework.

Answer

1. The 8 rules of Media Literacy is illustrated in the Beauty and Body Image Article are that all media is constructive, around the world people have different views of media, media in the U.S is controlled by Republicans,            the media in the U.S

Commercial

Media Arts

This is a commercial I made with some help of my teammates John and Gordon. The experience was not so good I did all the work and I am proud I completed this on time while I was sick. It did not come out like I wanted to but I did my best. This was the first time I did this by myself.

Commercial Assignment

    One commercial I really liked and could not forget is the Piggy Gieco commercial it is powerful although the piggy can be annoying I think I can relate to it my father says that I am like the pig who is so annoying all I do is talk and can not stop. It souds like weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeweeeeeeeeeeeeeee! So whenever I am in a car I think of that commercial.
Here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F_G2zp-opg

PSA Evaluation

I did my PSA with  Luz and Jessie. It was a lot of work trying to write the script, filming it and getting everything perfect. We had a lot of problems and difficulties but we did it. The topic we chose was hard about donating some of your money to charities. Our motto is Youth Empowerment: Making our Values Matter  I really like it and never in my life thought that I would be doing one. The San Francisco Film Societies'  brought Kirthi, Ryan, Masa they were very helpful and taught us new stuff. I really appreciate their help. Also, teaching us how to do a PSA and all the camera shots. I hope that one day they will come back and teach us new stuff. I hope you like our PSA and it motivates you.


Here is the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83yBGRHt090&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1

PSA Assignment

   For my PSA am working with Luz and Jessie. Our title is Give a Dollar, save a Life. It is about that we always spend money on getting the latest thing and trend. So we are going to present and try to motivate people to save at least two dollars and to show that at the end of the year you will have a lot of money. When you are going to buy something and its not a scarifice. With that you can donate the money to the charity of your choice and help make a difference in some ones life. Our audience are kids around our age that can make a difference in the world (12-17). The props that we need will be a itouch, Converse, and skinny jeans. Jessie will be the camera person, will be taking pictures, and video tapping everything to. I will be working with the sound and finding the music that best goes with it. Luz will be editting the movie. I hope that this PSA will come out great and have a lot of fun doing it.

M.C. Escher Assignment

                                                        M.C. Escher Assignment

This is a picture that our Media Arts teacher made us do because we are learning about the art of his tesallations. This is one of the interpretations I made of his famous art piece "Relativity." It was really hard to make it because we had to make it have 3 different perpectives. I tried putting one position then the other it took me 2 days but it was fun.

Homework Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope

 The Death Star is a weapon that Darth Vadar uses to destroy planets or something big. In the beginning of the movie Darth Vadar was destroying a planet and gets destroyed by the rebells. Darth Vadar is mad because someone just stole his plans.

 Darth Vadar is chasing Princess Leia around the galaxy because she has Darth Vadars plans which shows how it works and how to fix the Death Star because she knows he is going to use it to destroy a planet. Darth Vadar and his Storm Troopers his army are chasing Princess Leia to steall them back from her.

 Important facts about Luke are that he is the one who finds R2-D2 and sees the message the princess sends to Obi-Wan Kenobi about helping her with her fight to destroy Darth Vadar. Later, Luke finds Obi-Wan Kenobi and shows him the message. Obi tells and shows Luke about the force, his powers, about his dad, and the weapon the jedi's use a light saber.Then luke goes into training with Obi. Obi takes him to Alderaan to this bar where Luke meets Chewbacca and Han Solo. Then they later get caught by the storm troopers and leave on a ship called the Millenuim Falcon. Luke is such an important character because he has to becaome a Jedi to save princess Leia which he will later find out is his sister. Also, find out that they have a conection because Darth Vadar is their father.