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.

Homework Book Selection

We went to the library to learn more about Lucas films and what it is all about and after we were done. We were told to choose a book the book I chose is "Star Wars Episode I Anakin's Fate", by Marc Cerasini and illustrated by John Alvin. I chose this book because I looked in it and the drawings are really nice and it explains what happens in the begining episodes so I can understand the last episodes I am watching. I read the book and really liked it and it taught you a good lesson that you must "Trust Your Dreams."

Homework

  This week I will be helping with taking pictures for the yearbook. Today I am going to the soccer game to take pictures of the team. I am excited and hope to take more photos of my school, students, and staff members. The photos I will be taking are going to be photos that really describe our school.

STAR WARS V PLOT SUMMARY

   

 Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back starts of in space and they show stars and then comes in yellow writing explaining the movie and what happens in the movies and the words go back on the screen. Also, has some cool music. After that the empire forces made the rebels go into hiding in a snow planet called Hoth in a cave. They want to catch Luke Skywalker. Luke is with Han Solo returning to their camp and  Luke goes investigate a meteor that had crashed by and Luke is attacked my a big creature a Wampa. Later Han decides to go looking for Luke all by himself in Hoth. Luke's in a cave and has to use his force to get the lightsaber and slice the Wampa's arm.
    He escapes and finds the spirit of Obi-Wan Kenobi and tells Luke to go to the planet Dagabah to be trained under Yoda. Then Han finds Luke and puts him inside the dead body of the Wampa so he could be warm. They get found and go to the Echo Base and they get found by an Imperial probe droid who works with Darth Vader. They go on the Falcon because they are getting chased. They evade pursuit in an asteroid field, where Han and Leia begin to grow closer to each other. Darth Vader was frustrated at having lost the Millennium Falcon.  Darth Vader getsd help from bounty hunters, including Boba Fett, to assist in locating the Falcon. Meanwhile, Luke escapes from Hoth with  R2-D2 and crash lands on Dagobah, where he meets Yoda.
     They thought that they had escaped and go to the Cloud City because Han has a friend there called Lando Calrissian. But he ends up betraying them and gives them to Darth Vader. The ship has Chewbacca, R2-D2, Princess Leia, Han Solo they got caught by Darth Vader and his Storm Troopers. Darth Vader is trying to put Luke in a suspended animation he wants to freeze him. But he wants to make sure it works so he chooses Han to test it. Before Han tests this Princess Leia tells him that she loves him and gives him a kiss and Han says”I know”. Right when Darth Vader is going to give Boba Fett. Then comes Landor and the others escape wanting to go help Han. But Bobba Fett did not let him take Han but let him take the others in the Falcon. Then Luke falls into Darth Vader's trap, gets his hand chopped of, and he tells Luke that he is his father. He refuses Darth Vader’s offers and throws himself down the air shaft until he reaches a tube system that ejects him onto an antenna attached to the underbelly of the floating city. Finally the Falcon escapes and Luke gets his hand replaced by an artificial one. Next the Journey will continue to free and find Han Solo.
      This movie is interesting I have seen the movie but just some parts and never really paid attention to it. Now when I see the movie I can understand it and look at it in a different way. I can see all the goofs and how incredible this movie really is. I am hopping to see all of them to finally see what these historical movies are all about. I am in a Media Arts Class and hope to learn a lot from these movies to help my knowledge in making movies.

George Lucas Biography

       

     

   George Lucas is a famous film director, producer, and screen writer. He is most famous for making all the star wars movies and directed Indiana Jones. He was born May 14,1944 Modesto, California. He attended USC that is where he made his first film as a senior project 1:42:08 in 1966. Later on he made his first real film in 1967 THX 1138. Later on he made his third film American Graffiti which was a low budget film that was nominated for an Oscar. But before all his film making and being famous. He was interested in cars and wanted to be a race car driver. Then Lucas got inspired by a experimental filmmaker Bruce Baillie and decided to go to USC of Cinematic Arts that is where he learned to be who he is right now. He graduated as the best in his class with a bachelor in fine arts in 1967.       
   His career all started with his film THX 1138 when he was awarded a scholarship by Warner Brothers. He later on wrote, produced, and directed his first movie Star Wars in 1977. He and his own film studio and called it Lucas film that is where he made Star Wars. Later on he continued to make films with his friend Steven Spielberg. He made Pixar but made it as a name for his Graphic Group with it he made Star Wars Return of the Jedi in 1983.With Steven he made Indiana Jones. Later in October 3, 1994 he began creating Star Wars three prequels.        
   Lucas is an incredible man who has inspired many people. Not only that he has change our world and technology. In 1975 he founded Industrial Light and Magic, which was responsible for the invention of the special computer assisted camera crane "Dykstraflex“ "that was used for most of the space fight sequences used in the Star wars movies. He came up with more tecnology seen in almost evry movie will all see now. Also, responsible for modern sound system we find in movie theaters. I think that we should all thank him for what he has done. He will keep making more stuff with more new technology. He is worth $3.6 billion.  

Star Wars Reflection

    We are watching Star wars in class  because we are going to go on a field trip to Lucas Films. Star Wars Episode V starts of in space and they show stars and then comes in yellow writing explaining the movie and what happens in the movies and the words go back on the screen. Also, has some cool music. After that the empire forces made the rebles go into hidding in a snow planet called Hoth in a cave.They want to catch Luke Skywalker. Luke is with Han Solo returning to their camp and  Luke goes in vestigate a meteor that had crashed by and Luke is atttacked my a big creature a Wampa. Later Han desides to go looking for Luke all by himself in Hoth. Luke's in a cave and has to use his force to get the lighsaber and slice the Wampa's arm. He escapes and finds the spirit of Obi-Wan Kenobi and tells Luke to go to the planet Dagabah to train under Jedi master Yoda. Then Han finds Luke and puts him inside the dead body of the Wampa so he could be warm. They get found and go to the Echo Base and they get found byan Imperial probe droid who works with Darth Vader.The Imperial forces eventually overpower the Rebels using gigantic AT-AT Walklers and capture the base. Han and Leia escape on the Millennium Falcon with C-3PO and Chewbacca  when Leia's escape route is cut off, but they are unable to enter hyperspace because of technical difficulties. They evade pursuit in an ateroid field , where Han and Leia begin to grow closer to each other. Frustrated at having lost the Millennuim Falcon. Vader turns to several notorious bounty hunters, including Boba Fett, to assist in locating the Falcon . Meanwhile, Luke escapes from Hoth with  R2-D2 and crash lands on Dagobah, where he meets Yoda.

Semester Reflection

     This semester I had so much fun and learned a lot this semester. I really enjoyed making the podcasts and every week  learning something new to put in our podcasts. I really enjoyed working on podcast every week with new students. I enjoyed recording with the flip video and it is very easy and fast. I did not really  enjoy Kerpoof but putting music was fun and learning how to make it. I hope that next semester we can do like a news report and learn other new stuff. Thank you Mrs. Hendrix for making it a fun class.

Challange

      My idea for making the podcasts better and to get more viewers every week is to not to post them in a section barley anyone goes to in our school websites. It is to post them on the school websites front page every day hundreds of kids go to our front page website. So they can go on Schoolloop and look at their grades. If we post them in our school page and they automatically go on. The kids are going to see it and have more viewers and also make a section were they can judge our podcasts and put ideas on what we can put on them to make them better.  

Fireworks

This picture I made in Kerpoof and it is for this weeks podcasts we have the word signifies. I chose this because I think that when I see fireworks it signifies a celebration like the 4th of July.Also, because my teacher Mrs. Hendrix showed us and told us to use light on our picture.

Patzanadvantage2

	clarity of speech (Can understand every word spoken. Not too fast nor too slow. )	creative look (the title, images, video and credits are all easy to see and make you want to look at the podcast. Illustrations are related to the word or sentence and feel original and fresh. The credits don’t go by too quickly and are readable. There’s a sense that the whole podcast has the same theme and look)	creative production (The music adds quality to the podcast. It’s not too loud nor too soft. You can hear speech over the music easily.  The speed of the podcast is even and flows without blank spots or awkward cuts. There’s something interesting about the way it’s all put together. The Kerpoof picture is relevant to the word and a sentence and makes the podcast more interesting)	including all requirements (This week’s requirement was to use a Kerpoof picture with a cartoon that used at least one of the words. Great means they used more than one. There also must be 1.     definition 2.     WG sentence 3.     Original sentence 4.     Credits  with no last names 5.     Bibliography with name of web site and urls 6.     Document named the word)
Great	I think that Derek, Annie, and Kelly did a good job and I could understand what they were saying.	I actually thought it was all very good and really liked their kerpoof picture.		They did great  and included everything.
Needs a little work			Their beginning was kind off confusing the picture did not match what they were saying and it was not bad.
Needs a lot of work or isn’t there at all

Patzangenerate1

	Clarity of speech (Can understand every word spoken. Not too fast nor too slow. )	Creative look (The title, images, video and credits are all easy to see and make you want to look at the pod cast. Illustrations are related to the word or sentence and feel original and fresh. The credits don’t go by too quickly and are readable. There’s a sense that the whole pod cast has the same theme and look)	Creative production (The music adds quality to the pod cast. It’s not too loud or too soft. You can hear speech over the music easily.  The speed of the pod cast is even and flows without blank spots or awkward cuts. There’s something interesting about the way it’s all put together. The Keproof picture is relevant to the word and a sentence and makes the pod cast more interesting)	Including all requirements (This week’s requirement was to use a Kerpoof picture with a cartoon that used at least one of the words. Great means they used more than one. There also must be 1.     Definition 2.     WG sentence 3.     Original sentence 4.     Credits with no last names 5.     Bibliography with name of web site and urls 6.     Document named the word)
Great	I think that Aquarius and I did pretty well, and I could understand what we said and it had the correct timing .
Needs a little work		I think that we did not do so good we should have added more color and made it look more creative.		I think we included everything except the kerpoof picture and music.
Needs a lot of work or isn’t there at all			I think that we should have added music, pictures, and I forgot to put my kerpoof picture.

Kerpoof Picture

         This picture in kerpoof was hard for me to make and include all of the words with a picture and a sentence. It was hard also, on choosing were to put the picture and people, then finding the space for the sentence. This picture is of Native Americans in the Eastern Woodlands in a day to day life. This is the picture we chose for our podcast and I think it really goes with our word generate because everything there is alive because of the sun generating energy. I really feel that kerpoof is not so bad and I really did not enjoy it but I do appreciate what Mrs. Hendrix was doing and trying to gat us yo do and would like  to try other websites.

Working with my partners for word generation podcast 7

It was really fun working with Derek, he was a very hard working kid and did most of the work. He stayed at lunch evryday working on it and my team turned it in two days earlier. Working with Freddy was also, fun it was his first podcast because he is new to our class and did pretty good. Also, I think that Freddy could have played a little less and then he did pretty good. I could have done a little more work and I went to go help another group on vidoe tapping. So, in all I think my team did pretty good.

Word Generation Podcast Week 7

This is the podcast my group and I made for the word generation podcasts week 7.

It was fun making it because it was the first time we actually recorded it and have our faces in. It was funny because it took us forever to make because we mest up alot and had to do it alot of times till we got it. I reallly enjoyed doing it. It is the first one and is not so good hope you enjoy it.