Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Voices of Hope Lead

The voices of hope sing-a-thon was created by the Women's Chorale to benefit the Angel Foundation. Teachers, Students and people from both community and the Twin Cities sang at the event. They raise money by ticket and food sales and by each performer or performers donating a small amount.

It started with a group from Apple Valley, who donated a portion to the charity and continued with a group from FRMS. Teachers and students from EVHS language department followed FRMS and then both the Men's and Womens Chorales.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Law and ethics notes

FIve Freeedoms in First Amendment. Speech, press, religion, assembly and petetion


The Tinker Standard- the U.S supreme court recognizes that the 1st amendment protects on-campus student speech


The Fraser Standard: Teachers can sensor student's speeches


Haszelwood Standard: Schools have the right to sensor issues that go against the school's teaching. Only school sponsoed speech and public forum


The Frederick Standard: School authorized actibvi

Friday, February 13, 2009

Definition:
Define "Journalism" in 1-3 Sentences.
Current Events that are newsworthy and are published or brodcasted for an audience.

List and describe the six criteria of newsworthniess.
1.Timeliness- its current
2.Proximty- how close you are to it
3.Significance- events
4.Prominence- people
5.Unusualness-
6.Human Interest- feel good stories

What are the advantages of print journalis?
1. Control of what news you get
2. Easier to archive
3. More in depth

What are thes advantages or broadcast jounalism?
1. Audio and Visual makes better connection
2. More current
3. Easier to update

Why has online journalism become so popular?
It has the advantages of both print and broadcast journalism and is free.

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Commercial Analysis: Shows well known actor stealing cars, but each car is a different brand
Company: Audi
Target Audience: Car Buyers
Persuasive Method: Action
Shows scenes a cars getting stolen to show which car performs better
The message is that audi was a better car to steal than BMW or other cars
It was effective because it made Audi look better by having a better music and a better scene when the Audi was stolen
Commercial Analysis: Shows old and new events in history
Company: Pepsi
Target Audience: Pepsi Drinkers or soda drinkers
Persuasive Method: Human Interest
The camera shots show scenes of older and newer generation things and things such as movies that people have seen.
The message is that pepsi refreshes the world old and young
The message was effective because it showed well known events or movies making pepsi seem just as well known
Commercial Analysis: It shows a man who is a genius, that does amazing things, but can't buy a car.
Company: Cars.com
Target Audience: Car Buyers
Persuasive Method: Humor
Camera Shots show a man that can doing a lot of things, but still can't but a car.
The message is that even geniuses need cars.com to buy cars.
The message was effective because it made the company seem reliable.
Commercial Analysis: Man eats doritos and gets what he wants, but when he runs out he gets hit by a bus.
Company: Doritos
Target Audience: Everyone
Persuasive Method: Humor
The camera shots show, money coming out of ATMs and police officers becoming monkeys by showing this, it makes doritos seem like they can make someone's wishes come true
The message was that doritos can give you what you want, as long as you eat them
It was effective because it showed a man, getting what he wanted

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

In the coke "balloon fight" commercial, parade balloons fight over a coke bottle.
Company: Coke
Target Audience: Any one who likes coke
Persuasive Method: humor, well known characters fight over a coke
The camera shots were of the coke floating away and of the two characters fighting
The message was that a coke is something worth fighting for.
The message was effective because it was humorous that the coke just floated to another balloon instead of one of the two balloons that were fighting, getting the coke.