Experience in Media Arts

Media Arts was a fun class to take. I learned how to make videos using iMovie and GarageBand. I had a lot of fun making new friends and learning new stuff. This video above was our last project for English/Media Arts. I thought it was a bit hard to do because my group had to do a lot of research to get this video done. Overall, Media Arts is a fun class and I hope our teacher Ms.Hendrix good luck for next years Media Arts Class!

Questions & 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.

1. The rule of Media Literacy that illustrates the Beauty and Body Image article is rule number 5 Media contain ideological and value messages because it tells all media is constructed and Media is built by people. Your thinking of the ways you think about all media that makes this world our reality. 
2. In other parts of the world it’s not a big deal of kids watching movies people having sex in movies such as Europe. 
3. I do think our media does a good job of showing what our real life is like. All advertising is media, and its also giving us what is popular and good in life. 

Commercial

This commercial my group and I made is about us telling other students from our school to join orchestra. It took us awhile to make this video because we wanted to make this commercial the best as possible. I thought it was going to be hard to make, but it was actually easy. We went to Ms.Chu class to record her playing and Joe pretending to play on the piano. What I did was that I edited the video to make it look great. I like this commercial because it has a lot of details and think that people may want to join orchestra.

High School

The high school that I have gotten accepted to was Abraham Lincoln High School. I didn't really expect to get into this school because this was my third choice. I am sort of happy that I got into one of my top three high school because I know friends that are going to this school too. I am thinking of appealing to another high school because I want to learn something from another school that this school might not have. Even if the appeal won't be successful, I will be happy with this school still.

TV Advertisement

I like the McDonalds' advertisement. I like it because it has they show people eating burgers and french fries to grab people wanted to try their food. They have a slogan which is "BA DA BA BA BA, I'm lovin' it!." I went there before and there food tasted so good. This advertisement made me start to go to McDonalds because they had a cool advertisement.

PSA

During the weeks of 2/14-2/24, our class were assigned to make PSA. Our class split into groups of 4 to make PSA. My group was going to make a PSA about littering. We used a orange for an example to represent our PSA on littering. We were pretending that one of us were littering the orange peels peeled off  of the orange. Then we made some special effect and showed what you can do instead of throwing it on the floor.
  We wanted to make this PSA because we want to stop people from littering. Littering should not be allowed because it will pollute the ocean. The people from the San Francisco Film Society helped us a lot on our PSA a lot. They helped us on special effects on our PSA. I would like to thank the people from the SFFS for helping us on our PSA.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvV4oqnl9hA        

PSA Blog

This week we are going to create a PSA story for our Media Arts class. My group is going to make a PSA story about littering orange peels. We are each assigned a job in our group.  Annie will be taking the pictures of our PSA story. Kelley will be editing our PSA story in iMovie. I will be making the sound effects and the music. John has already gotten our props for our PSA. Anthony will be doing the other things that needs to be done. We will need taking close range, medium range, and long ranges photos for our PSA.