propriate photo, because it will eventually come back and bite you in the butt.

eing responsible with something as important as your body, and keeping it to yourself. You can't trust anyone with that kind of power like having an inap

h as sexting, because it can all go down hill after making a bad judgement in the blink of an eye. It pin points the issues of trust, self respect, and b

Blog Entry #6 - I like to think our PSA is effective because it shows that you really need to take that extra second to think certain decisions over, suc

eak things around to make it better. We put in as much work as we could, and I'm happy with the team effort we have, we're all putting in great ideas.

Blog Entry #5 - I wish we could've taken out more time to better prepare our PSA but, the point of a draft is to see your mistakes and high points and tw

Blog Entry # 5

Testing

Blog Entry #4

Sadly to say, my group has not begun filming our PSA, we are in the process of finding other students to be standby people in our PSA for when our main character is in the commons, and they are talking about her, and also, getting permission to use the commons and to also be able to have cell phones out during the filming, and that maybe an issue because of the "Bag & Tag" policy. Obsticales have been we all haven't gotten a chance to meet and create a time to begin filming because we all have jobs and we need to figure a time where we can all be together for the filming process, and if that isn't possible to split up the duties, if someone films, someone edits, etc.

Falling Polar Bears: What makes for an effective PSA?

I feel like my group has the right idea toward creating an effective PSA, our biggest dilemma is making sure our audience comprehends our message, because in our PSA it's going to take a couple twists and turns to keep our audience guessing BUT we don't want them to be confused, and it's hard because we aren't planning on using dialog because we feel like it will take away from the overall message of the piece, we want people to pay attention to what our main character is going through, the humiliation, the consequences with her school, her emotion and her hurt - she trusted her boyfriend and he did this to her? We want to visually show this rather than pound it into our audience heads with guilt trip slogans like "Think before you sext" "Don't send nude photos" etc, because all high schoolers have HEARD these things, we want them to feel as if they are the main character going through these things. I don't exact changes I would like to make but, there's still some very minimal tweaking to be done with our shot ideas and such.

Blog Entry #3

The most challenging part of creating my PSA thus far is creating a clear message for everyone, seeing as sexting is kind of a racy topic, we can't exactly show a nude photo of someone in the PSA to let everyone know what exactly is going on, so we some how need to find a way to let every viewer know the message, and inform them on what "sexting" exactly is, and also finding people to cast in our video and to get permission from the school and administrators to film is another thing that is still on the fence for us, because we need an administrator to be in our PSA.

Blog Entry #2

I think our pitch went great, I was really appreciative of the feedback my group was getting, and it helped me think harder into the storyboard and what to add to it to make the message greater and to persuade my audience more. We've been prepared on our topic since the day we thought of it, now we have to do the tweaks to it and we will be ready to rock and roll!

Our topic is community related in the sense of the high school community, and young adults. I feel that even though it may seem like an obvious thing not to do, some people are ignorant and trust the wrong people, and I get that, we're only kids but you shouldn't have to learn the hard way and deal with the consequences, and that's my goal with our PSA.

Blog Entry #1

The role of a PSA in society is to get out a message, not advocating you buy anything, but maybe to learn a lesson, such as not texting and driving or drunk driving are the most common ones. It's to sell an idea rather than a product. My group decided on the topic of the emotional and negative consequences of Teen Sexting. Sexting is something that time has brought us to be familiar with, it's when you send/receive nude pictures of someone. We felt this topic was important because some of us know of the incidents South High has been involved with, with sexting, and also to kind of scare people out of doing it because it really does cost you a lot of things, your reputation at school,  and in legal cases, it can be considered child pornography and you could be sentenced to jail. Our plan is to show that a girl THOUGHT she could trust her boyfriend with her sending him a nude photo of herself, but in the end, he forwards it out to his friends and it gets spread around school. You should NEVER trust anyone with this kind of thing. We wanna share that with some of the people who don't exactly understand that.

Effective Advertisements

An example of an effective advertisement would probably be Proactive commericals! I was thinking about the things I watch on TV, and what I feel really makes you want to get a product and the Proactive commericals do a great job for several reasons. They show what the product does for you, they show before and after pictures of people when using the product, and also they use celebrities in their commericals which usually pursades most of us because we aspire to be like celebrities! We want to look like them, so when you see Avril Lavigne, Jessica Simpson, or Justin Bieber saying "HEY! look at this product, it made my skin more beautiful" most of us are gonna want to buy the product. Even though we really should want to be our own person.. most people (sometimes including myself) are inspired by celebrities and want to be like them. Advertising is the key role in making products. If there were no commericals, no adverstisements on bilboards or in magazines, and we saw a product like Proactive sitting on a shelf in a store, what would make you want to buy it? You have little or no prior knowledge of the product, you don't know if it works or not so that's when advertising comes into play! It shows you all the product has to offer, then it's up to US, the consumers.. to either buy it or not. Proactive has millions of users so obviously, their adversitsement skills and product are successful.

My First Blog Post! :)

What I've learned so far from the MTN presentations.. Hm.. I've learned about analyzing media and also, creating a story board! Although I knew about these two things somewhat before MTN came, I learned a lot of things I didn't know especially when it came to analyzing media. When you're watching TV or a commercial or something, you get the message the commercial is trying to send, most of the time, that's the point, right? Now I've been paying attention to, who produced this? What kinds of shots are they using to make their message clearer? Who are they trying to persuade? I can't just sit watch commercials now without doing this and that isn't a bad thing because when you get me to do something outside of class, that really means I learned from it.  Also when we were creating story boards with our norms, that was a great practice and learning experience too! Being able to see everyone's strengths when it came down to creating a story board, I personally got to learn from it, and what to do better on next time and what I did well the first time around.

The clip I plan on using for my visual communications project is a PSA about your "natural high" promoting a drug-free lifestyle, and the promoter in this commercial is none other than (yes, my idol, and you can say I'm obsessed) Lauren Conrad!

Media literacy is important because, it's what time has brought us to be familiar with, we communicate with it and through it and most of the time, It's promoting a good cause or something that most people can relate to. When you watch a movie, or watch a TV show and you feel like you can relate with it, it makes you feel like you're one with the community, and that to me, is important.