commercials

its a little late, but I wanted to talk about the silent commercials...  As a marketing major im already pretty aware of how a commercial is put together... whenever an advertisment comes on the tv it interests me to try and figure out how and why they created the message, how they are trying to relay that message, and who they are targeting by their message.  Without sound commercials are very wierd.  We as consumers and humans in the 21st century rely a lot of how we perceive a mood on what we hear, especially in an advertisment.  If theres suspenseful music playing the ad is meant to strike suspense, etc.  Because of DVR, a couple of the commercials I saw I had the oppurtunity to watch both with sound and without.  Some of the ads you could understand right away what they were selling or informing about, others were very abstract and pointless.  The audio in these advertisements including speech and ambient sound help a bunch to relay their message.  All in all what I have learned from this is that, though sound is important, if the visuals are strong enough, that much sound isnt always necessary. 

2nd project

Im not quite sure yet, but I think I wanted to do something with the 7 rocky movies that came out starting from the very beginning rocky one, showing him working out from all his movies... him defeating all of his "final fights"... not quite sure... or I wanted to do something with the old start trek, like william shatner star trek... beam me up scottie star trek...  I think that show is rediculous enough to make something really really intersting.  Ill post a story board tommorrow with beter illustrated ideas... Im really excited to use video instead of picture.  peace

Project 1... Project 2

Ive gotten a little bit of a late start on this blogging thing... but hey, better late then never. Hopefully I can blog a lot to get credit for the weeks I've missed!

So, Project 1... I had this great idea of having a chess match and dubbing words and music behind it... What a failure that was... soooo boring. I also wish i had better equipment, because god knows you cant rent anything from this place unless you give them like 3 weeks notice. But anyway, anita gave me the idea to put actual pictures from a war movie to try and break up the monotmy. I think I mightve gone a little over board though. A lot of pictures from 300, and a lot of recorded audio as well. Some things I just couldnt do myself and had to go online. Everyone's project was awesome, and mine was so much different then theirs! Its ok though, now that I know whats expected and what i can actually do, im certain my next project will be much better and creative.

Im actually really excited about the 2nd project. I love movies from the 70s, especially making fun of them. Ive seen wonderwoman before, and loved it. I want to hopefully do something with that but maybe with star trek and william shatner, or lost in space... I just love the way films looked in the 70s and 80s with the technacolor. Also, im allocating a lot more time for this one. I really want it to come out good now that I know what we are capable of. I feed off of other people's ideas especially since its been so long since ive been in an art class.