Effective Commercial

Today and yesterday we watched a couple of commercials of a variety of subjects. The commercials ranged from how funny is not knowing a language, to how distorted our perception of beauty really is. I liked most of these ads, but loved the Dove evolution and Carlton Draught beer ad. The Dove commercial really had a great impact on me, even though I really did know about our distorted view of beauty it is amazing to see it in action. It is the progression from reality into a gruesome fiction that really bumped me out.This ad really tells you what the media has become these days, creating a perfection which can never be achieved, so real and so sad at the same time. The Carlton Draught ad was quite the awesome ad, it was really epic in the whole sense of the word. I really laughed throughout the commercial, and the crude humor that is presented with the combination of such a musical classic composition. This commercial was intended to be funny and it hit exactly into the spot, I really liked this rather different beer commercial.

I have heard the bad news that we have some project, and the project is creating our own commercial. I think it will be fun, I was just kidding in the bad news thing, it is always fun to do something new. I plan to use a comic or funny approach towards my ad, since I seriously cannot deliver the deep emotional approach of the Dove ads. I don't know what to expect yet about the project, but I can only hope that we have the appropriate time to complete the project. This kind of projects really test my ability to demonstrate that I CANNOT ACT, to which hopefully there wouldn't be no more acting projects. I can only wait for the project to be assigned the next week or so, and hopefully the knowledge acquired from watching the commercial will come handy.



I really liked this ad, it is so deep and it has to create some consciousness, I mean If you don't change your smoking habits even with the video, you are a true addict.

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Bay in a Day

Jorge Bay in a Day from mistermark on Vimeo.

On my Bay in a Day video I have taken the chronological approach. I have dedicated myself to making the video on a 24 hour scale, from the morning until the night. My theme is time, which can be reflected upon the progression of visual light, up until utter darkness on the city of Puerto Vallarta. I have accomplished this by adding several photos from different places or keypoints on Puerto Vallarta. I also considered other themes for my video, like a more civilian approach to Puerto Vallarta, what do they do, and where; I also considered making my video about only a quick journey through Vallarta as if touring by car. Although I did take some photos out of my car, many of the photos I took were taken on foot, which really got me tired.

The activity did come out to be a truly fun one. The process however, was complicated and quite the bumpy road. I first of all took all the photos throughout a period of three days on a long weekend, going all around the city. After that, I selected my song and decided for the theme. At last, I used Movie Maker to put my whole video together, from the photos, videos, music and at last, animations and transitions. Probably one of the issues that I encountered was the timing on the images and transitions, since transitions really mess up timing on your pre-timed photos. So, I had to personally had to deal with this issue by changing the preset time on every single transitions and simply put them all again. Today, I exported the video file and I am practically done with this, rather long activity.

One Day on Earth

I did like the second video, the first video was way too viral in my opinion. The First video had a lot of media, but still it was a good video, not too good though. The second video, even though it was a trailer was a professional style exhibit of visual media, the first video was a total mess of images with a weird song. The second video has a finer perspective of what is a life on Earth, it captures the eyes far easier. The first video tries to capture your attention desperately by including a song that may inflict some sort of deep message into it, it takes the value of the pictures completely out. The message of the second video is to actually inspire to make your own video, it basically ravages you with words indicating that, it is intended to make you think about the current world conflict.

There were some really important "chunks" to the video, some bad or some good, they made the video what it is. On the first video, the chunks of the trash can, bombing and a guy on jail. I really liked this part, this part shows you the real world, it shows you that no country is perfect but rather plagued by some wrong. On the second video, the part when there is a quick and noticeable change in ethnicity, people working in several places, was a really key element to this "trailer", it truly transmits the message. This parts were key since they really show you the world as a whole, and immense planet. I can't wait to decide the approach I am going to take towards this activity, although a I really don't have good hopes of making a very good video.

Fuel Efficiency and the BP disaster

This year, one more time humanity has been shown the dangers of dependance on crude oil, with the help of the BP disaster on the Gulf of Mexico. Fuel efficiency, the smart decision to make, has been around for a while now, but the industrial mongers keep repressing their importance to the environment. Although some cars, like the hybrid, have escaped this oppression and had come out for sale, and actually has been sold quite a while, there is still much to do about this subject. I do consider the smart decision when I get into my car, that's why I walk to school, why waste money, and in the process actually cooperating in the environmental movement for the good of the planet. I should as well as any person consider this fact while thinking of getting into any gas-based vehicle, there were animals killed in the BP incident, people lost their jobs, all because of the constant demand for an overused type of fuel. In conclusion, the use of fuel efficient vehicles is good, it is good 0n your wallet and for the environment, just a small step in the environmental movement that has finally been alive these last years.

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Distance/Fuel Measurement Chart

So, for the past two days we have been working on finding out how much gasoline we use to get to school, by computing data like distance betwenn house and school, fuel usage by car, etc. This project in particular has been quite complex for some, but rather easy for myself, as I live near the school. I found out I only use 23 liters per year with my car to get here, and on my dream car an Audi R8, I would use 26 liters to get to school a year. The fact that I use so little gasoline to get here, makes up for the fact that I rather walk to school. The fact that I walk to school is a good form of exercise, and perhaps the only, since I have quite my running routine a while ago.

2007 BMW X5 4.8i	Day	Week	Year(185)	9p/L
15.7l/100K	0.062	0.310075	11.47278	$103.25
CITY
DC:2010 Audi R8	0.14299	0.71495	26.45315	$238.08
18.1L/100K
CITY
2010 Mazda Tribute Hybrid	0.06162	0.3081	11.3997	$102.60
7.8L/100K
CITY
2010 Ford Focus	0.10902	0.5451	20.1687	$181.51
13.8L/100K
CITY

Google Earth Tours

Today on computer class we viewed our peers Google Earth tours, which was a mixed experience. The first tour was Ximena's tour, it only had to places, her house and Miami, those two destinations seemed interesting. However, there were four locations, and Miami was mispelled as Mami, it also showed from a far distance some islands whose name I can't recall, the whole tour was supposedly erased as a mistake, but still it was ok. The second tour was Mahonry's, it actually only had his house for 35 seconds with a rotating camera. The problem was exactly that, it was also another tecnical issue, such a shame, I actually saw the original last week and it was pretty cool. The third and last tour was Raul's, his tour was complete and included places such as Disneyland and New York, which are two totally awesome places. The only criticism I could add would be reduce probably by a few seconds each destination, but it was overall a great piece of work. In conclusion, this activity had a lot of cassualties thanks to tecnical issues, so it would be a mixed experience.

JOY Post

J:This past summer was quite exciting. I bought Starcraft 2, which I am still playing 'till this day, I actually played the first game twelve years ago. The game requires quite a lot of ability and requires the player to actually have a brain. The original game actually turned into an actual professional sport on Korea, where the best players are from. The game helped me remind the old times as well as reactivate my brain from the vacation period. Apart from the game, I actually started running in my afternoons to get in a better shape(yes, I am not joking). I discovered running was quite challenging, I ran all over Marina, about 5km in 30 minutes for like two weeks up until I got back to school; I am quite busy now. I still run on the weekend as it became sort of like a hobby, I actually really enjoyed these vacations.

O: In these rather incredibly stressful times of school work there is one thing I would love to do, sleep. I actually sleep an average six hours a day which is about two hours less of the eight I should sleep. What happened really was that during the past vacations I started to sleep really late on the nights, I'm talking 3-5 a.m. This is truly the reason why I am so tired at school, but there is one thing I never had and will do, fall asleep on class. For the past 3 years or so I have slept for a little time and yet I have done alright in my grades, I actually love learning as nerdy as it sounds. So I will try to get some more sleeping time as it really doesn't affect me to sleep some more time, or does it? I can handle stress pretty good and I have found that waking up early gave me advantages like: more time to study, chill and listen to some music and arrive early to school. With this said, I would still try to get some more sleep.

Y: I have never liked to be part of the average person, that's why I don't consider myself average. You may call it nerdy or pure weirdness but I have very unique tastes. I personally like learning new stuff a lot more than just going out of my house to party. I don't like parties, it is actually a recently "acquired" taste, but I don't like parties. I like video games, but I also hate that people start classifying me as a nerd, though I really don't bother hitting them back. I believe that physical defense is quite natural to any animal, including humans, so I do have a fuse, a very long one. I have played video games for over twelve years now and I still love them just like then. So with the previous comments stated, this is why I am different from the other people.