Today I went to the Cleveland Film Festival and ended up seeing "World's Best Commercials" with one of my roommates. We got there a little bit early (the film was at noon) and I was actually expecting to see more of a crowd than there was. After we bought our tickets, we were directed to stand in line until they were ready to begin seating for the film. I thought that in general, the film festival was pretty well-organized. However, the film that we saw was a little less organized than I'd hoped. There was no type of beginning, middle, or end to the film. It simply started out by showing a commercial; then it went to the next one, then the next, and so on, without any commentary or anything like that. Between each commercial that was shown, a green screen would pop up for a few seconds. The green screen had a lot of information on it, but not much time was given to read through it. I noticed that it showed who submitted the commercial, what company it was for, and the name of the campaign/commercial. At the bottom of the green screen were the hyperlinks "previous" and "next." This led me to believe that perhaps someone was selecting the commercials that we were seeing. There were a few commercials that were shown twice throughout the film, which I found a bit annoying.
BUT, I really enjoyed a lot of the commercials that were presented! I was surprised to note that there were only two or three that I'd seen previous to the film festival. I had a lot of favorites, and definitely could not pick just one. I loved the Crest commercials, with the punchline, "Say anything with a smile." A really creative and funny commercial from the UK is an ad promoting the importance of being aware of bicyclers on the roads. It's definitely worth watching a few times! I encourage you to watch it and find out for yourself what it is about, because if I say it, the effect of the commercial would be ruined.
There were many commercials for Axe, Burger King, Net10, and FedEx. It amazes me the amount of creativity and effort that must be put into making commercials like these. An ad for the LCD Sony Bravia TV must have taken a long time to produce, and I thought it was really cute. I could go on and on listing these commercials, because I wrote nearly every one down and enjoyed them all!
All in all, I enjoyed the film festival. A small side note: if you park at the parking deck, bring in your parking stub to validate your parking so that it's free. If not, it'll cost you about $7 to park for less than three hours!
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Presentations
I missed class on Feb. 23 because I was really sick, so I missed a majority of the Multi-Genre Autobiography presentations :(
But this past Monday's class, I got to present my autobiography and saw some of the other ones too. I was really impressed by them, even though I only got to see a few. Everyone was so creative, and it was interesting how there were so many things that were different about each presentation, yet many of us cherished some of the same books, movies, and television shows. It's funny how everyone can live in different places and live completely different lives, but when it boils down to it, we all pretty much watched the same shows (to a certain extent). It was interesting to hear people say that "TV is so different now," and that "it was much better when we were younger," because I've had that same thought.
I was thinking about it, and it's very hard to judge the validity of those statements, because I guess we, as a generation, are a bit biased. Kids that are glued to Spongebob, High School Musical, and iCarly are probably going to say the same thing about the shows they watched once they get older, too. I think it just has a lot to do with the fact that television, movies, and music all seem to have a big influence on young people. I think that as a teacher, it would be good to embrace the current popular shows and incorporate them into lessons, because it would help grab students' attention and also help reinforce the lesson.
But this past Monday's class, I got to present my autobiography and saw some of the other ones too. I was really impressed by them, even though I only got to see a few. Everyone was so creative, and it was interesting how there were so many things that were different about each presentation, yet many of us cherished some of the same books, movies, and television shows. It's funny how everyone can live in different places and live completely different lives, but when it boils down to it, we all pretty much watched the same shows (to a certain extent). It was interesting to hear people say that "TV is so different now," and that "it was much better when we were younger," because I've had that same thought.
I was thinking about it, and it's very hard to judge the validity of those statements, because I guess we, as a generation, are a bit biased. Kids that are glued to Spongebob, High School Musical, and iCarly are probably going to say the same thing about the shows they watched once they get older, too. I think it just has a lot to do with the fact that television, movies, and music all seem to have a big influence on young people. I think that as a teacher, it would be good to embrace the current popular shows and incorporate them into lessons, because it would help grab students' attention and also help reinforce the lesson.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
I got an email from my grandma...
My grandma is awesome. She is so technologically advanced for someone her age, it's crazy. At 67, she can do more with a computer than any other granny I know.
Why, you might ask?
My grandma sends so many emails, my parents actually had to ask her to stop sending forwards and chain letters because they were sick of weeding them out of their inboxes. She still sends me chain letters and all sorts of junk mail, but what really amazes me is when she writes me an email to see how I'm doing. She can do all kinds of stuff with AOL Mail that I'm shocked she knows how to do. Every email she writes to me has a fancy background image, animated smiley faces, and attached pictures. She knows how to do hyperlinks too. I think it's really cool because up until like, two years ago, she never owned a computer. My dad gave her our old one, and she couldn't figure out how to use the mouse. Who would've thought that she'd be bombarding us with emails two years later?
On a side note, another reason why my grandma is awesome: she has a MySpace page! Who knows, maybe she's out there blogging too!
Why, you might ask?
My grandma sends so many emails, my parents actually had to ask her to stop sending forwards and chain letters because they were sick of weeding them out of their inboxes. She still sends me chain letters and all sorts of junk mail, but what really amazes me is when she writes me an email to see how I'm doing. She can do all kinds of stuff with AOL Mail that I'm shocked she knows how to do. Every email she writes to me has a fancy background image, animated smiley faces, and attached pictures. She knows how to do hyperlinks too. I think it's really cool because up until like, two years ago, she never owned a computer. My dad gave her our old one, and she couldn't figure out how to use the mouse. Who would've thought that she'd be bombarding us with emails two years later?
On a side note, another reason why my grandma is awesome: she has a MySpace page! Who knows, maybe she's out there blogging too!
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