I-Search

       After finishing the I-Search, I was so relieved of finishing it because it was a little complicated writing the script. My overall experience in

Blog Answers to these Questions

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?

 Answers: 

1.  The 8 rules of Media Literacy that's illustrated in the Beauty and Body Image article is that all media is constructed, you think the way you think because of media, media has commercial implications, audience negotiate the meaning in media,  media contain valuable messages, media has political and social implications, the forms and content in media, and each media has a type aesthetic form.

2. An example of media constructed toward teens is like TV shows or Dramas because the tv shows is like reality and teens sometimes look up to the celebrities like their role model.

3. I don't really think media does a good job showing what your real life is like because TV shows and movies are just like acting and they do not show their natural beauty or self because they're acting out the script and they have makeup on and they probably photoshop their figures. 

Tour of Francisco MS Commercial

       The commercial that my group made was the Tour of Francisco commercial. We were supposed to make a Talent show commercial, but after we found out that there wasn't going to be one, I thought to myself that we just made a script and put our wonderful ideas on paper for no reason. So, we decided to make a brand new video of a tour of Francisco Middle School. Making the script took a lot of concentration and focus because we needed to know what we were going to do, what to say, and what kind of shots. We had to collect a lot of video and interviews and I thought that the most hardest thing to do was to get interviews from the staff because they were always busy working on stuff and it seemed that we just couldn't find some time to shoot it, but we finally did and it only took like 5 minutes of their time. Getting the pictures were easier than the interviews because we just had to take a short 1-2 second video and take a capture of the part that we want. After all, I thought that the commercial turned out to be pretty good and better than the old one. 

High School Acceptance

            The high school that I applied to was Lowell, Galileo, Washington, and Lincoln High. I put Lowell as my first choice because it has high academics and my parents would be proud of me if I did get in. When the letters that told you where you got accepted to came, my heart was racing while I opened the letter. After opening it carefully and taking the letter out, I was shocked because I actually made it into Lowell! I was jumping up and down with happiness.

T.V Advertisement

              One advertisement that I liked is the SUBWAY commercial because every time I see it, it would have people keep saying $5.00, $5.00, $5.00 foot long and it makes me want to buy one to eat.

PSA Summary

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    In media arts, we learned how to make a public service announcement with help from San Francisco's Film Society. We split into groups and I was paired with Luz and Stephanie. Our subject was something like making the world a better place. On the first day of making the PSA, I was a little confused on how we should make the script and where we were going to find the pictures because we had to take them ourselves for copyright reasons. So, we started making a script, filming, finding the music, and taking the pictures.


     After we finished everything, we started to edit the PSA. The most hard part of the PSA for me would be editing and filming. All of us at least messed up once on our parts and editing took a lot of time, concentration, and work. We had to add and remove stuff, make the music fit in with our voices, fix the pictures we took, etc...  I guess all of the work payed off because it turned out to look pretty good. I'm glad that the San Francisco Film Society helped us when we were stuck. I thought that this was a great experience because we learned some of the camera shots such as close-ups, long-shots, and medium-shots.

PSA Assignment

     For our PSA, the person who will take pictures will be Jessie. Our audience for this PSA will be people of our own age like (12-17). The props that we need will be a Itouch, Converse (shoes), and skinny jeans.  Luz will be editing the PSA after we finished filming and Stephanie will be finding the music and getting some of the props.

M.C Escher Assignment

      Today in media arts, we looked at one of MC Escher's pictures called "Relativity." We all found 3 perspectives in "Relativity" and you are able to locate all 3 of them if you look close enough. When I first saw this piece of art, it was a bit hard to see all the perspectives and confusing. I thought it was overall fun, challenging, and interesting to do because it made me look carefully on what kind of tesselation this is.

    

Homework Assignment 1/27/2011

            In the movie "Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back," the Death star is a nickname for a powerful weapon made by the Empire. In the beginning of the movie, the Death star was actually destroyed because of the victory of the Galactic Empire. Everyone went into hiding and it leads to the rebels making a base on the ice planet Hoth.

           Darth Vador was chasing Princess Leia around the galaxy because Princess Leia had imperial plans that made up the readouts of the Death Star and how it works. The Death Star was known as a terror weapon because it could destroy anything. Darth Vador and his stormtroopers chased her all around to try to get the readouts and plans for it, so they would be able to figure out how it works and use it.

       Luke Skywalker was a jedi and a war hero who participated in defeating the Galactic Empire in the Galactic War. He started to train with jedi master Obi Wan Kanobi and met Han Solo with Princess Leia. Princess Leia is actually Luke Skywalker's twin sister, but he didn't know that until later. Luke also destroyed the Death Star and joined the rebel alliance.

Homework 1/27/2011

           This week in Media arts, I will be taking pictures of the soccer game with Stephanie, Luz, and Aquarius for the yearbook. I will be going to the game and taking them.

Book Selection Homework

              Today in Media Arts, we went to the library to choose a book about George Lucas. Ms.Hart also showed us a video of George Lucas explaining how he got so far into the movie business before. The book that I chose was "Star Wars Clone Wars Adventures." I chose this book because I thought it looked really interesting because of it's cover picture which showed a guy holding like a lightsaber while blowing it and it turned out to be a colorful comic book with a cartoon style Star Wars.

Star Wars V: Plot Summary

             Star Wars V "The Empire Strikes Back," starts out in a frozen planet called Hoth. Luke Skywalker has finished his circles and when he finished contacting the base saying there's a meteror in the ground, he gets kidnapped by the Wampa (snow monster) and brought back to his cave hanging from the icy ceiling. All of the people, CP30, and R2-D2 are at the base looking and wondering where Luke is because he was supposed to return back there after finishing his circles. When Luke awakens from sleeping while hanging from the icy ceiling, and he uses his force to get his lightsabor, while he does that, the Wampa comes back in and Luke attacks him with his lightsabor escaping, trying to get back to the base. The dark force is part of Darth Vador's army and the rebellion includes Princess Leia and Han Solo. The Rebellion joins the group with Luke Skywalker.

          The characters of Star Wars V "The Empire Strikes Back," are C-3PO played by Anthony Daniels, R2-D2 played by Ben Burtt, Luke Skywalker played by Mark Hamill, Han Solo played by Harrison Ford, Princess Leia played by Carrie Fisher, Darth Vador played by David Prowse, and Chewbacca played by Peter Mayhew. R2-D2 and C-3PO are major character in all of the six movies. They go all around places because they supported Darth Vador, Obi-Wan Kanobi, and Luke Skywalker. Luke Skywalker was told by Obi-Wan Kanobi to travel to the planet Dagobah and complete his training under Jedi Master Yoda. Darth Vador also known as Anakin Skywalker leads the dark force and also known as the father of Luke Skywalker. Han Solo was a smuggler and a mercenary. He and his mate, Chewbacca, became involved in the Rebel Alliance against the Galactic Empire. Princess Leia is the twin sister of Luke Skywalker and the daughter of Darth Vador. Before Leia knew that she was Luke's twin sister, she was madly in love with him, but then she found out and liked Han Solo.

           I thought that Star Wars was a somewhat interesting movie, because I didn't understand much of it, for not watching the first movie, so I don't really know what happened before. The music in the beginning sounded very dramatic and I loved how it started with a introduction explaining what happened in the previous movie that rolled up like credits. Overall, I still liked the movie, it actually showed the goofs, and the graphics weren't that bad. I can't wait to go to the Field trip to the Kabuki Theater. 

George Lucas Bio: Homework

                  George Walton Jr. Lucas was born on May 14, 1944 in Modesto, California. Lucas attended University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. While he was there, he learned many things about Cinematic Arts and that is probably what brought his success now. He was worth $3 billion in the year 2010. He is an film director, producer, and film writer. He is well known for creating the movie Star Wars and the character Indiana Jones. Now, he is one of the most popular and one of the most successful directors and producer in cinema history.

             George Lucas's first Star Wars came out on May 25, 1977. He started out by taking small notes and ended up putting it all together into a script, forming a movie. When it first came out, everyone rushed out to movie theaters to see it on opening night. People would line up and wait a week for opening night because back in those days, the graphics of it were just so clear and amazing to people. If you play close attention to the movie, you might see some goofs. This film earned $460 million in the United States and $337 million overseas, beating the movie "Jaws" gross revenue. It got ten nominations, but still got 6/10 awards!

                After making the first Star Wars movie, it was a huge hit! He continued to make 5 more to continue the fantastic series. The 6 movies are "The Phantom Menace" (May 19, 1999), "Attack of the Clones" (May 16, 2002), "Revenge of the Sith" (May 15, 2005), "A New Hope" (May 25, 1977), "The Empire Strikes Back" (May 21, 1980), and "Return of the Jedi" (May 25, 1983). He is extremely rich after making all of these movies and they are still popular, watched today.

Do Now: Stars Wars

        Today, in Media Arts we watched Star Wars: Episode V- The Empire Strikes Back. This movie was made 30 years ago. The graphics don't look that good now, but back then, those graphics were the best graphics. The movie starts out with Luke Skywalker in a snowy climate, but then he gets punched in the face by a snow monster. He is brought back into his cave hanging from the icy ceiling, then awakens and tries to get back down, when he uses his force to grab his light saber, the snow monster comes back in, and Luke hits him with his light saber.  The orange suits start with their jets start to attack the monsters.