Blog Post 1

1) What is the role of public service announcements in our media culture?
They are suppose to make people aware of the social issues in our community.

What are some of the topics your group thought of for your PSA?
We thought of unnecessary, over packaging awareness in our school and distractions by students in our school.

What role did you play in creating the plan?
I helped come up with one of the idea's and what we would need to do to get permission to film in certain places and how we should film it and what information we would need.

Blog Post #2

Movie advertisements are very effective because when the producers put the movie trailer on TV, it usually shows the action scenes for action movies, and the funny parts for the comedies, etc. They only show you a certain amount of the movie to leave you with curiosity about what happens next or what the ending will be.
Advertising for anything is meant to leave you with a feeling of curiosity. Will that make-up make me look better? Will that movie be funny? Does that food really taste good? Advertisements are made to make you want to know more about the product that they are selling and for the most part, people are very curious.

MTN Presentations

For the first presentation I learned how to see other PSA's from different perspectives and what to do and not do. I also learned how small things can enhance a PSA to make it better and help the audience watching it connect and understand what I would be trying to show.
The second MTN presentation I learned the steps and requirements to making a PSA. They taught us how to break it down so it was easier to make our video's. I learned how to take a general topic and go deeper with it so the video wouldn't be so vague as the topic.
For my visual communications critique I plan on using a commercial video clip off of the television.
Media literacy is important because its the ability to read, interpret, use, design, and create audio and video materials for specific outcomes.