United States During the Interwar Period

United States in the Interwar Period on Prezi

After using Prezi for one project, I though that it was simply amazing. Prezi is an innovation in presentations, it's the future. One of the major benefits of Prezi, is that is free; whereas, PowerPoint is a licensed program. Another great feature of Prezi, is that you can access it every where in the world, because it's located in the internet. Check it out here. Also Prezi is really simple to use, since the beginning you are going to managed it as you where a master. If for some reason you think is too hard, don't worry! Prezi offers you free tutorials (HERE) A supper advantage, is that if you have low hard drive space or memory in your computer, you don't need to worry because everything is safe in the net. One of the major shortcomings of Prezi is that you need an internet connection to access it. Not every where in the world your able to find a free internet connection, only in modernized countries. I found everything really easy, as I said it was pretty easy. I didn't find anything hard about Prezi, it's pretty simple.

If our computers class teacher would give us the option of using Prezi or PowerPoint I would choose to use Prezi for many reasons. One of the main reasons, is that as I said, you only need an internet connection to work on it, so you don't need to carry your computer everywhere. It will be more practical. Another reason I would use Prezi, will be to safe "space" in my computer and not risk to get a virus from downloading images from the net. The major reason I would choose Prezi would be because it looks cool. PowerPoints are to old fashioned, they look boring. Prezi is the innovation for the future. Prezi is the future.

Prezi :)

The Next Five Years of My Life on Prezi

PSA Commercials

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.

PSA Project

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

1. Drinking and Driving
2. Pollution of the Oceans and Land
3. Safe Sex
4. Protection of Endangered Species
   
5. 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.

Paco.

Commercials from Super Bowl and Classmates

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!

Paco Carmona.

Commercial For The 2010 Slingshot Lunacy