This time, for Computers Class we had to do a Public Service Anouncement (PSA) about themes that are important to our society. Pedro and I, formed a group that took the theme of, My Drinking and The Effects in Others. To represent this theme, we made a video of two friends and the effects that one friend can cause if he is drinking. Pedro was the drinking friend, and I was the friend who got the effects. Since we started the video, we already knew how we were going to record it. We went to Pedro's house to make all our video footage. One of the biggest problems we had during the recording was the differences of ideas; however, in the end we manished to combined them and obtain a good result. Another major difficulty was that our recording device was failing, big time. They where times when we had to redo everything, because the camera just turned off in the middle of everything. At the end, we taped everything we needed.
While watching my video, I realized that I could do many changes. One of the major changes I would do to my video, is make my partner and I have a better pronunciation and a better linguistic skills. Another thing that I will LOVE! To have would be a person who recorded with my camera, because we only put it in place and start taping. You don't see the extra footage because of our editing skills. The two things I mention, would be the only changes I will make to my video.
The Best video of the 2010-2011 ASPV Computers Class for 9th grade was te video of Jade and Debora. Even though they had the same theme as my group did, I admit that their video was much more better than ours. To start, they have original footage of a real party. Also, even though they don't have dialogue in their footage, the way the managed to make the messages enter in the video, it's is just simply beautiful. I also though that the fact that Debo's father appears in the video, is fantastic. Also the special effects they had where great, like Jade in a hangover stage and vomiting, by the way that look so real that I got a little sick. They did a great job.
A PSA (Public Service Announcement) is a way of advertising in Television, Radio, or any other kind of media. PSA are in someway especial, because instead of trying to sale a product to the audience, they are design to teach the public a message or theme of the problems the world is going on. They accomplish this, with the simulation of actions, exposing things that affect the opinion of the people, or by letting know the public an issue. As you can see, PSA's are very different to regular advertising in the structure they have, but at the same time they are advertising.
For this project, my first option to work with is Pedro. It is pretty simple why I have chosen to work with him, we both life en Nuevo Vallarta. This will eventually help when we have to do the work. Also, Pedro and me have the same interests, we like the same things and we have similar ideas; making the work easier to accomplish. My second choice is Jorge, eventhoug we don't life in the same colony, I know I am able to work with him in a peaceful manner, because we both think alike. My final choice will have to be, Mahonry. As a matter a fact, I life close to him (Nuevo Vallarta). I know some times we have our differences, but still we both can "bend" and obtain a good product.
List for Ideas
Drinking and Driving
Pollution of the Oceans and Land
Safe Sex
Protection of Endangered Species
Anorexia and Bulimia
Drinking and Driving: I will show this topic, in a scenario of a AA meeting. An irresponsible adult is talking about his story, that he killed a family because he was drinking and driven. Then, the video will change to the actual scence. To end, I, my partner or both will apear and give the message. Pollution of the Oceans and Land: This is going to be a very easy topic, you can show strong pollution images that show what can happen to our world. At the end, we will appear and mention how we can fix this horrible problem. Safe Sex: This is probobly a very good theme to show. We can record ourselves showing multiple ways of having safe sex. I am not talking about sexual images, instead of showing anti-conception means like the pill, condom and other stuff.
One of the advantages of the Super Bowl, is not only watching what promisses to be a great football match, but it's also seeing how major companies spend millions of dollars in the advertisement of their products. Every year, they surprise us more and more. For this Super Bowl, a lot of good commercials where broadcast in television, and others not so good. My favorite commercial of this year's Super Bowl was definitely the Volkswagen–2011–Darth Vader (http://www.superbowl-commercials.org/2873.html) This commercial has it everything, great them, great music, great actor, it's in tune with the music, it creates a feeling in the spectator of sweetness. The little kid that is portrayed, plays the role of Darth Vader better than the actual actor in the movies of Star Wars. Another commercial that I enjoyed was the Audi A8 (http://www.superbowl-commercials.org/2997.html). The commercial is pretty simple, but still you can notice big bugs invested in it. It's simple, it shows how an old guy and a young adult try to escape from a luxury old fashion prison, that actually represents old luxury vehicles. The commercial, finishes when te scape from the prisson, however the old guy goes into a Classical Luxury car and returns to the prison; whereas, the young guy drives in an Audi A8. My third favorite comercial was, Pug Attack (http://www.superbowl-commercials.org/2985.html) by Doritos Company. This commercial shows the power of Doritos, which makes a Pug Dog defeat a teasing human and obtain the Doritos. It's humorous, and makes a point. There for making it a good commercial. All the years, we can observe great commercial, but also really bad commercials! One of the worst commercial of this years Super Bowl was a Compact Car Commercial from Hyundai (http://www.superbowl-commercials.org/3101.html). It has no rhythm, no emotions, its simply images with some text. To make it better, I will add "spiced up" music and let the car show its potencial, its speed and other virtues. In our computer class, we did some commercials. The best commercial from the class was definitely, Jorge's. His commercial is funny, entertaining, has a good music that is in coordination with the topic, it transmits the message correctly. For me, it was simply the perfection from the class. You could notice in the final results that he actually planed it, and had fun doing it. Cheers to Jorge, and my congratulations for his great job!
Of all the video we had the option to see and based our selfs for our blogpost, there was some that were exceptional commercials and others that really were lame and stupid. The comercial that really grab my attention and I though they were well developed where, Berlitz, Dove Evolution, Carlton Draught, and Pepsi. I liked the Berlitz commercial because it is funny and the music is well chosen. Dove Evolution really blew my mind away, when I saw how they did their advertisements, it grabbed my attention. Carlton Draught and Pepsi, both commercials of drinks were two that I really enjoyed, because the plot is exceptional, it has great visual effects and music. The others commercials, like Apple show the exceptional products of Apple but it's too long that looses the attention of the expectator. Volkswagen and Dove True Colors, were cheap and bad produce commercials for me. The smoking commercial, I though it was incredible stupid and with out sense. Here is the commercial, for your enjoyment. My favorite commercial of the nine that our teacher gave us, was the Berlitz commercial. As said before, I liked it because the plot is funny and the music at the end is great and entertaining. It grabs the attention of the viewer instantly and keeps them focus during all the commercial.Here is the commercial, for your enjoyment.
I'll say that one of the most impact full commercial that I can find in the internet, is an advertisement and encouragement for the Mexican National Team for the 2010 South Africa Soccer World Cup. The comercial is tittle, "Momentos de la verdad" and protagonists former national coach, Javier Aguirre. I think that this is a great commercial, because it really touches the mexican people, because soccer is the national sport. In fact, it is a commercial but you can still feel the encouragement to wining the world cup. Another good thing about the commercial, is what Javier Aguirre says. In the commercial, he has great oratory abilities. In a part, he says that, "its time for the skin to get gus bumps". Actually, when I hear it my skin got gus bumps.
You can find, "Momentos de la Verdad" HERE. It is going to be interesting to make my own commercial. Some elements that I am planing to be used in my commercial, are to have good actors, a high-quality video camera, great location and have a good plot, not only a thing that makes no sense at all. This will depend, at the theme of the video. Another element that will be crucial to my commercial, will be some kind of video editing software to improve the quality of my video and try to make it look professional. Probably it can be iMovie or Flash. My major challange, is basically to make it look professional. This challenge, leads me to other minor challenges. Like getting a good camera, a nice set and creating a good plot for the commercial. However, I think I will have no trouble.
My fellow readers, as you can see in the blog post where I have attach my video called "One Day in The Bay" is has a central theme. My theme is to show the people the things you can do on Bahia de Banderas. They're to side to the video. The first part shows and advertises Puerto Vallarta as a calm and beautiful place where people can come and spend their vacation in time to "chill" and rest. Then after showing the beautiful place that is Vallarta, the music changes completely to a different theme, and also the images doo. Suddenly, the music fires up and the video starts showing the fun part of Bahia de Banderas. This is an angle, for young people that want to practise different water sports, such as surfing, kiteboarding and wakeboarding. My objective was to show the different sides of the Bay, both for old people and young.
People want to know, how did I created this video. Basically, it was pretty easy. I first starting by making the music, a mix of "Con Te Partiro" by Andrea Bocelli and "Rock You Like a Hurricane" by The Scorpions. Then, I started using Mac software iMovie to start the video. I obtain images from my classmates and other friends, but I also used a couple of mine. To end the process, I pasted the images and created the video. During the creation process I also added video effects and transitions to make the video more "attention getting." For the last part, I just added credits naming the persons, who images appeared in the video, the music and the creador, which is me.
