Commercials

For today's assignment we have to watch a few commercials and write about them. The truth is that I didn't like most of them, many commercials just want to introduce their products into our heads and make us get interested and buy them. The some commercial have very original ideas but as they are being repeated over and over we start to feel annoyed, and I hate that. I think they should get original ideas, and make them even more interesting. One thing that I like about some commercials is the main idea and how they present their products through it, also I like that they talk about the truth about something and how we can get it solved. The commercials that really are in my mind is the one about Anti Smoking and the other is about the beer Carlton Draught. In the Anti Smoking commercial, they show a man asking to a woman if she could take him to a place, the woman ignores him; but when he starts smoking the woman moves backwards and pick him up... Then they put to things, the first one says that women feel safe with men who smoke, then they put other one that says that smoking causes impotency. That changes the whole perception of the message and gives the correct one, if you like women, stop smoking! The second commercial is about the beer Carlton Draught, in the commercial, hundreds of men start singing an epic song and moving making an humongous man drinking a beer. I interpret this as how people can be so addicted to this harmful drink.

Anti Smoking Link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p69Q8lTkZTc

Carlton Draught Link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY6uJlI-t14

Well, for my commercial I will use a product easy to present but at the same time very attractive to the spectators. I think this project will be very, very frustrating because I don't like to do this type of project but I have to do it whether I like it or not. One challenge I think it will be hard to cross is the one to make the audience feel attracted to my product. Other challenge will be to present an original idea, it must be interesting and great. Another one will be to edit the video in a professional way, or at least in an excellent way. I think that if I really focus in this project I would get a good mark. For now, I don't have and idea of what I am going to do the commercial about, but we still have some time to think about it.

A Day in the Bay from Sebastian Zermeno on Vimeo.

During the last classes we were supposed to make a video about any topic that represent us. The video should only have photos of three seconds each and videos no longer than 10 seconds, it must have a duration of 2:30 min. For the theme of my video I focused in the Sun including the beach in some photos. First, I thought to make my video about the Malecon or my life in a day, but I reconsidered all my ideas and I chose the Sun for my theme because it is easy to make many photos about it.

To make my videos I use all the states of the Sun: morning, evening and night. The part that I enjoyed most was the activity of taking photos, I took my cell phone and started to take them placing it in some good spots to get some really good photos and I think I did. I took like 90 photos and put them into the school´s computer. Then, I put a name for every photo, which took me a long time to name all of them. After that, I had to take different pictures from a minimum of 5 classmates, many photos were pretty bad, almost nobody put effort in taking them, so I just chose 5 pictures, the better I could find. As soon as I finished that part, I had to arrange the photos chronologically, following the transition of the Sun. Then, I just added some transition and video effects, and the song: "Mr. Blue Sky" by Electric Light Orchestra. I had many problems while I was doing my video, for example: the computer I use at school, froze every 10 min. and I had to save it after any change I did to it, them when I wanted to open my video, I spent 5 min. waiting the computer to load the video. I had many problems like these, so those problems made me publish my video 3 days after the due date.

Today, our teacher showed a video about showing one day on Earth with pictures and really short videos. The video was just an trailer about expressing any part of your life in one day. The video shows the good and bad moments the Earth is coming through, the starvation, pollution, wars, but also the happiness of people who live in peace with each other. It makes you think about the problems that we are ignoring and we should do something about it. It is really good because it makes you think about your life and what are you doing with it. It really gives you the idea of showing your life in a 24 hour period, expressing how you identify yourself and things that you like. Our life could be represented in any way, videos, pictures, sound....anything thing we love to do.

The video shows very powerful scenes that are occurring today on the world. For example, the one-leg man that high jumped a height of 1.80 meters. That short video has a great impact because it makes you think, what are you doing with your legs? Just sitting all the time in front of a computer doing nothing productive. In the video, there are many things that really get into your mind. It gives you the idea of changing the world, making it better for all the living things. Actually, we can do that if we put it as a purpose, making that every single person think about what is happening today in the world, encouraging everybody to make everything better.

Fuel Efficiency

During the last days, we have been working with Excel measuring the amount of fuel we waste every day, week, and year. We measured the amount of fuel our cars, dreamed cars, and hybrid cars use. There is a variation in Liters/Km. between the cars, but all waste fuel. We also measured the amount of fuel wasted by alternative means of transportation. If we multiply the amount of cars in Puerto Vallarta and the amount of fuel each wastes, that's a lot of fuel. Hybrid cars are better than normal cars because they can use electric energy as a fuel. They also are made from organic products.
After looking at the huge oil spill, I realized that the use of fuels is very dangerous for the environment. During the worst oil spill 464 sea turtles and 60 dolphins were found dead at the spill area. The owners of the BP are trying to clean this mess up, but it is a huge quantity they spilled up, 190 millions gallons of oil in three months.
I wan to have my own car but I know it will harm the environment. It would be nice to have one but after I remember this events I prefer to wait until I really need it.

Measuring With Google Earth

Since two weeks ago we have been working with Google Earth. Now, Mr. Picketts assigned us to do a chart with the amount of gasoline we use per year while we go to school, a total of 185 days . My 2008 Ford Pick-up Limited FFV 4WD uses 817.948 liters per year, I think that's pretty much fuel for just one car. My dream car,2011 Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder spends less fuel (736.4666 L,), but is smaller than the Pick-up I have. In a way it is better because it spends less gasoline, but it is a small car, so I think my Pick- up is better in a way. Now, I think that my car spends a high quantity of gasoline, but almost every car spends the same.

2008 Ford Pick-up Limited FFV 4WD						26.1 L/100 Km.	2.21067	11.05335	408.974	$3,680.77
2011 Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder						23.5 L/ !00 Km.	1.99045	9.95225	368.2333	$3,314.10
2011 Honda Civic Hybrid						5.9 L/100 Km.	0.99946		185.9001	$1,673.10
2011 Mercury Mariner Hybrid 4WD						7.8 L/100 Km.	1.32132		244.4442	$2,200.00

Goodle Earth Tours

Since the last week, we were supposed to make a Google Earth Tour about our vacation trip and then post it into moodle. Today at class, we watched 3 different tours from our classmates. The first tour that I saw was from Sofia. She did it just fine, I like it. At first, she showed the five places she traveled during her summer vacation, and let some time to observe them which is really good. One thing she could improve would be the movement of the screen, because sometimes she moved it very fast so just to move the screen slower. The second tour was from Hope, she did it really good. In her tour she put some comments about her summer vacation, that gives us and understanding about her travel. One thing she could improve would be to let the spectator some time to look at the places she went. The third tour was from Rodrigo, he made his tour just in Puerto Vallarta. He showed very well all the places he went during his summer vacation. He also let some time to observe the places, that was a good quality. One thing he could improve would be to put some comments or describe his travel through Fluvial. In my tour I put all the places I traveled during my summer vacation, I started from a very far distance to show the country I was traveling on. One thing that I should improve would let more time to observe the places I went, and add some comments.

JOY

  This weekend I worked at my dad’s restaurant. It was pretty entertaining because there was a group of Americans that were having a great time. I enjoy working at my dad’s restaurant because I get to meet new people and also have fun. Not only that, but my dad buys me stuff from time to time. For example, the TV and the iPod Touch I have were bought to me because I worked at the restaurant. It is also a great experience because you get to learn all types of values.

Something I would like to do for me would be to enjoy life at its maximum. For example I love videogames. One day I would really like to invent my own videogame. It would be pretty awesome because I would create all this new characters and their weapons and stuff. It would be really cool to be able to experience with all kinds of new characters invented by myself. Creating something or doing something that you like is way better because you enjoy your work.

What makes me special is that I can be a very good friend. I go with my friends if they need help or something and that is a very good quality because whenever a friend needs help I will help them. Another good part of me that makes me special is that I am also funny. In the tensest moments I can say some random thing and break the silence. They say that laughter is the best cure to sadness and depression, and that is something that even though we all have to go through, we don’t have to suffer that much.