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.

M.C. Escher Assignment Paragraph

This week in Media Arts class I created a picture of Relativity. It was a bit hard to make because we had to make this picture look like M.C. Escher's Relativity picture. You can see that M.C. Escher's picture and my picture are similar by having the people, windows, and stairs in the same spots. I made this picture by looking at Escher's picture carefully and adding in almost every details there was. It was a bit fun in making this picture because you get to learn the style that M.C. Escher make his picture in.

Homework Assignment 1/27/11

Today we were watching the movie "Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back," the Death star was like a nickname for a powerful weapon that was to destroy planets. In the beginning of the movie, the Death Star was being attacked by the Galactic Empire. The Death Star was to allow Emperor Palpatine to control the Galactic Empire through fear.
 Darth Vadar was chasing the Princess because she had plans on the Death Star and she hid the plans in her robot. They wanted the plans on the Death Star, and wanted to know how it work out. The Death Star was powerful because it could almost destroy anything.
   Luke Skywalker is a jedi and that works with the Rebel Alliance, leading his team against the Galactic Empire. Jedi master Obi Wan Kanobi trains Skywalker to be strong and soon later meets Han Solo and the Princess. Luke Skywalker is an important character because destroy the Death Star and helped the rebels out a lot.

Homework Assignment 1/26/11

My job for this week is to help Mr.Geller with the yearbook. I will help him gather pictures about lunch time activities. I will take pictures of people working on the lunch time activities and the place where it is taking place. It may be difficult, but I will try my best to get good pictures for the yearbook.

Homework Assignment 1/18/11 (1 paragraph)

I picked a book called "Star Wars Clone Wars Adventures". I picked this book because I want to learn about the Clone Wars that happened in Star Wars. The book has a lot of details in it, like for example you can see the space ship shooting out those lasers to another ship. I like how it is a comic book because you can see who is talking with those bubbles on top of the person who is talking. I like the texture of the artwork because it looks a bit real and a bit fake. The is a interesting book, and I can't wait until I read another volume of this book.

Star Wars V Plot Summary

 Luke was traveling in Hoth, an icy planet. He was trying to find something and the Rebels thought that Luke may be lost in Hoth.  An ice monster trapped him in a cave and Luke took out his light saber to attack the ice monster. Once he escaped, he did not know where to go next because he was lost. While Luke was traveling, he saw the spirit of Obi Wan Kenobi and he told Luke to go to the planet Dagobah to find Jedi master Yoda.
  Luke is the commander in the Rebel Alliance and Princess Leia Organa is a high ranking official in the Rebellion. R2-D2 is Luke's astromech droid and C-3PO is Leia's protocol droid. Han Solo is a ranking position in the Rebel Alliance. Darth Vader is a bad guy who tries try to take over the world and is the father of Luke. It seems awkward how Darth Vader and Luke are related to one another, but Darth Vader is with the dark force and Luke are on the Rebellions.
  The dark force was a part of Darth Vader's army. The dark force tries to take over the world by killing everyone who disagrees with them. The rebellions included Luke, Princess Leia Organs, and Han Solo. The rebellions try to not let the dark force take over the world by having a war them. The movie is a bit interesting because I do not really get what is going on. I like how the movie has goofs in it because we can see how they made the movie by seeing what materials they used to make the movie. The movie was still interesting, but just hard to understand.

George Lucas Biography Homework Assignment

   George Lucas was born in May 14, 1944 in Modesto, California. His father was mainly British and Swiss-German and his mother was mainly German and Scots-Irish. His parents sold retail office supplies, so they can own a walnut ranch. Lucas has a younger sister, his younger sister fought with people who messed with Lucas. They would mess with him because he was short and scrawny. Before Lucas was not interested in movie making, he was interested in race car driving; he dreamed of becoming a professional race car driver. In June 12, 1962, he crashed his Autobianchi Bianchina in a car accident. It was difficult for the doctors to find a pulse for Lucas.
   When he was recovering, he decided to go to college. Lucas attended Modesto Junior College, where he earned his AA degree and developed a passion for cinematography and camera tricks. Soon after, Lucas began to make films with is friend John Plummer. Their films were being shown all over San Francisco. Lucas then transferred to USC in Los Angeles and was influenced by the Filmic Expression course taught at the school.  Then in 1967, he graduated USC with a bachelor of fine arts in film.
   Lucas re-enrolled as a USC graduate student in 1967. He made the movie, Star Wars in 1977 and was able to set up his own studio, Lucasfilm. Lucas was paid $5 million U.S. dollars from Pixar. Later, Disney bought Pixar for about $7.4 billion dollars. Lucas's personal wealth was at US$ 3.5 billion in 2006. George Lucas dontated $175 million to USC in September 19, 2006.

Star Wars Goofs

Today I was watching the movie Star Wars:Episode V- The Empire Strikes Back Star Wars. This movie was made like 30 years ago, so the technology wasn't that good and there are goofs. I can see stuff disappearing from scene. When the rebels were fighting the monster, you can see a goof in the guy's goggles.

Semester Reflection

This semester I learned how to make a podcast. Each week we added something better, like add cool details to grab the attention of the person who is watching the podcast. I learned how to make music in GarageBand and learned how to fade out the music. I also learned how to add music into our podcast, so it can make our podcast sound better. I learned how to make animation in powerpoint. I learned a new site called Kerpoof and it is a very good site to use to make a picture with cool tools. We learned new words from the Word Generation book and got to find pictures that match the word, the word's definition, sentence, and the Word Generation book sentence. It was really fun working with new classmates because you could see what skills they are good or bad at. This semester I learned a lot of things from my media arts class.

Impressionism Allegiance Picture With Kerpoof

This is an impressionist picture of my word for this week, allegiance. This boy is reading the Pledge of Allegiance. It was hard making this picture because I needed to add a lot of details to make this picture look like impressionism. This is my first time making this kind of picture, and It took me like three days to make this picture. 

Advertising Challenge

My idea for getting more people to watch our podcast is to tell teachers to tell their students to look at the our podcast for their homework. The teachers should tell their students to write a summary of the podcast and make what they like about it. Also, the latest podcast should be on the front page, so the students can see our latest podcast we made. Students can learn new words by looking at our podcasts. It may improve their vocabulary and their reading skills. This is my advertising challenge idea.

AdvantageWong1 and DerivesWong2

Advantage

	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 can understand everything clearly; the words are in a normal pace.			It has all the requirements that is needed in this column.
Needs a little work		It wasn’t very smooth to start the picture before you finished spelling the word	Talking pretty fast. The picture sequence doesn’t really match words Transition to a picture of power plant very good
Needs a lot of work or isn’t there at all

Derives

	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				It has all the requirements that is needed in this column.
Needs a little work	They could have spoken a little faster, because it was a bit too slow.
Needs a lot of work or isn’t there at all		There is no title in the podcast and the podcast doesn’t have enough creative look.	The music is missing.

Kerpoof Picture

Advantage

My picture was really fun to make because there was a lot of choices to choose from Kerpoof.

The picture we chose to use in our podcast was this one, because it shows how our podcast word "Advantage" is being used in this picture.  The reason we chose that one was because it illustrates the main idea of our word in this picture. I feel that Kerpoof was a great site to use in our podcast because it was really easy to use by clicking on the stickers on the side and drag it into the photo.

Word Generation Podcast Week 7 Reflection

It was a great experience working with new classmates in creating the podcast for this week. I have gotten to know my classmates and see in what things they do well. I don't think that everyone contributed equally because it felt like that I had to do most of work. My teammates helped out too, by telling me where we can improve a part in the podcast. At first, I was disagreeing on making the music in the podcast lowered down because they said it was a bit too loud and I wanted it to stay where it was. My teammates asked me to review the podcast again. So I did, and I figured out that the music was a bit louder than our voices. Then, I lowered down the music and when I looked over the podcast again, I thought it was better than before because we can listen to our voices better. It could have been better if we have had assigned each person to do a job instead of me doing most of the work. It could have been better if we had assigned our own group because if we work with the people we want to work with, it may be easier in completing the podcast. Therefore, it was great time working with some new classmates.