Commercial Reviews

My three favorite SuperBowl commercials were the Volkswagen 2011, Chevy Camaro 2011 and the Budweiser Middle West add. The Volkswagen 2011 is really cute with the kid trying to be Darth Vader, and funny at the end when the dad fools him into thinking he actually has powers. The Chevy Camaro 2011 was hilarious in my opinion, it just starts fitting the scene to the car, which looks awesome when driven by the redhead girl which turns out to be a teacher. It's all funny, I really liked it at it was the best one in my opinion. The Budweiser one is cool because it's spontaneous, the guy in the video starts all serious and rude, but when they give him the beer they all make a celebration and it's pretty entertaining.

I would improve the S.B commercial that promotes flowers. I mean, the commercial is not bad, but it's meant to be funny and it just doesn't work. Maybe if they lightened up the scene or the mood of the sequency it would be better, it's all so dark for a flower commercial. I'm not saying it was like painful to watch, but it's just not entertaining.

The best video from the class was Jorge's. It was cool because he did some nice editing and actually did an effort to have a good commercial, unlike others. It's quite funny at the end when he says ''When I do sports, I drink coke'' because he kind of laughs at the end. It was very cool and I liked it even better than my own commercial.

Bran Frut Commercial

Commercials

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I liked all of the commercials, but some more than others. The one that most stuck out in my head was the Pepsi one. It uses humor to promote their drink, and that is really entertaining and it hooks the audience. It is like a mini movie, and it does give you a good laugh at the end. It might not say that much about the drink, but it does make you want to drink a Pepsi.

Pepsi Add Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40DykbPa4Lc

The smoking add commercial was also good. At first I didn't get it because the guy got a ride with a pretty girl because of smoking. At the end though, I got that it was because the guy was impotent and the girl felt safe with him. It was a pretty good commercial for me, but maybe not that much for the people who don't want to have kids. That would just mean they get rides from attractive girls.

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I'm going to use humor in my commercial. The Pepsi commercial style really got my attention and I would like to make my own out of that essence. I think that dramatic commercials do work, but they don't really leave you truly wanting a product. They kind of make you feel obligated to buy a product because they make you feel bad. With happy commercials, you feel good with yourself and with the commercial, plus it makes you think about the product the way you want to think about it. Even if it doesn't make you want the product that much, you remain with a good memory, and perhaps just because of that, you will buy it.

I'm expecting to have some challenges with my ideas for the commercial. Though I don't think I'll be really troubled, I do want to make it a good commercial. I hope people like it, since that's the most important think. Although I want to feel comfortable with it too.




Anti Smoking Add Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hySFt8O11A

Comic Life Self-Reflection

Working with Comic Life was certainly something new, but it wasn't that hard. I liked that everything was visible and easy to manage. Talking boxes and different styles of font and backgrounds took almost no time to locate. The system is very nice, but the overall experience was not exactly my favorite. For someone that is a fan of this type of stuff, editing and taking time in creativity, Comic Life is great. For someone like me, that likes to almost only write and do nothing more, it can get quite boring. Specially when exporting Photo Shop images. It takes a couple of full-time classes only to edit the images and import them to Comic Life. I think that our project is worthy of being showed to other people. We took some serious time on our details and the information is clear. Using Comic Life was something new and easy, but it takes creative types of people for it to flourish.

I believe that comics can be useful to learn serious literature. They are obviously not the most serious resource to learn about a subject, but they work. I agree that some comics are mainly made to entertain. Although I also think some comics are made for easy understanding about serious subjects. I've seen some of my classmates comics about Romeo and Juliet and they do show the characteristics of the play. They use original language, and modern language when appropriate or when not talking about something very important. Overall, I think that comics are a useful and easy approach to understand literary subjects.

Bay in a Day

Day on Earth Rodrigo from mistermark on Vimeo.

My video is about a day in my life, and a couple of the things I like to do. At the end, it shows pictures of my friends, which tell how much I appreciate them. If I could choose another theme I would've chosen the beach. I was actually going to do a video about beaches in Vallarta, but it seemed to be fairly complicated. Plus, I live a little far from the beaches here in Puerto Vallarta. The process took a fair amount of time, even if it looks so easy to make. I did edit some parts to make it look better, it took me about two hours to make the first two minutes of the video. The other half took about a class and a half to complete, it was easier since I didn't have to make too many changes to the stills. I still tried to make it more smooth when going along with the song, but you can't be perfect always. Sometimes if you fix something, another thing goes wrong, and it goes on and on. I think that my project is good, I think that people will like it, the song is really soothing and the video is relaxing.

One day on Earth video

I really liked the video because of everything it shows. It tells us that the world is something beautiful that is worth recording. The purpose of the video was to inspire us to do the same. They want us to record a day in our personal world. I think that this is going to be a very fun activity to make. We'll get to know each other better, and we are going to get to express ourselves individually. I can't wait to see how my classmates come out on their projects.

I think that the parts with war and ugly scenes are weak because they don't really inspire you. They let you see the bad things in Earth and then you don't really feel like making your own video. The parts with nature and the little girl at the beginning are really nice. These things remind you of innocence and purity. The world must be seen that way in order to truly appreciate it, and I enjoy to think that way. The video in general was very pleasing, but there were some parts that were kind of ugly. I'm planning on making mine very beautiful and unique.

Fuel efficiency

In the last days of computer class, I have learned to measure how much fuel different vehicles use, and how much time I need to make it to school each year. I learned that there are several cars, such as hybrid ones, that use a lot less fuel than a normal car. Riding a bicycle is by far the most fuel efficient method of transportation, as well as walking. I plan on getting a fuel efficient car when I'm 16, I also want a cool car, but I'll think about fuel efficiency when browsing for one. I think that this was a very useful project, these are things I will probably find handy in the future. I wish we can do something similar soon, I find it to be a very interesting subject. Also, we should learn to use less fuel, even if we are lucky to live the way we do. For now, let's move onto another assignment, see you later!