Blog Post 10

Yes I do intend to follow all tips.  I already have a logo ready to go. My about me looks good, but it may need some more updating. I already have a contact to my email link and and all my blogs are linked too. Furthermore, my Twitter and my Facebook are clickable on my site. I just may need to put my Instagram on there as well. So I do plan to follow most of the tips that Smashing Magazine suggests. The main reason why I choose to follow these tips is because I already have them on my site and what they suggest can make my page more user friendly.

My favorite sites are Cartonblanc, Mikki Mottes, and F. Claire Scroggins because of the bright colors, the carton effects and the creativity that each site contain.  In order for me to make some of these sites I would need to know Flash, Div, Javascript and create many carton images.

Blog Post 8

My literacy narrative project will be on my Youtube subscriptions. I will analyze each one in sequence from when I first found them on Youtube to my latest subscription. Then I will give the audience a little preview of each subscription so they can become more familiar with the video content provider.

Outline:

My voice introducing the topic and what it’s about

Use about 5-10 different subscriptions and why I like each one. What types of strategies each one uses and what I learn from each one

Next, I will analyze what each subscription is about: comedy, political, sports, etc

Then I will discuss how these subscriptions have shaped my thinking and everyday life

Lastly, I will end it with a proposal so the audience can subscribe to some of these Youtube channels and why it will benefit them

Blog Post 7

What Nina Venables (the reviewer) said about my project 2 draft was very intriguing. My project still needs a lot of work and I think I can get it done with in 48 hours. I still need text but I got the layout pretty much finished

A quick summary of my project is that it focuses on Obama and Romney’s TV ads and some of their super PAC ads. The concept of my project incorporates pinning each candidate’s ads against each other, and analysis is provided to who is more effective while also including the terms that I learned in this class.

By the end, the audience will get a sense of what the ads meant and who made the most damage-hence the boxing concept of my layout. The last page of the project will show a “tell of the tape” that will contain bullet points about the candidate’s ads highlights, the facts, and the terms I learn in this class.

To get back to the peer reviewer, Nina said is that I should analysis each text with an unbiased approach. She also said that in my analysis of each advertisement of the different candidates, I shouldn’t discuss whom I’d vote for or whom the audience should find to be the better candidate. Ultimately, that makes a lot of sense because I can target many audiences. I, however, feel that if I want someone to vote for a candidate-in this case Obama- I want to make Obama seem like his ads prove more effective than Romney’s.

To address her concerns the best I can, I will analyze the text with an unbiased approach but in “The Tale of the Tape” page I will make a case for the best reason why someone should vote for Barrack Obama.

Blog Post #6

The first text I got is an ad which is called “Wrong for the Middle Class” and can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukkJYkANZ98&feature=player_embedded&noredirect=1

·         Author is Obama’s Super Pac

·         Website: Wrongforthemiddleclass.com         

·         This source is the medium of a video, with music and is an ad against Paul Ryan

·         This content relates to my pitch because I am analyzing different ads and YouTube mash ups people have created for the Obama campaign and this video is perfect in showing why a voter should think twice about voting for Romney-Ryan.

Rights

·         Original

·         I do not think I need permission to use this ad because its on youtube and I am not making money by using this ad.

 

·         I will use links to cite my sources, because in this genre they can click on the links

 

The second text I have is an youtube mashup called “Barack Obama: 99 Problems (Explicit Political Remix)” an can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C22wBf2h5k

·         Author is Diran Lyons

·         Website: http://lyonspotter.blogspot.com

·         This source is a music video parody of Obama, rapping to Jay-Z’s 99 problems.

·         I love this content because it makes Obama likeable, and that’s what my pitch is about: to get people to vote for him.

Rights

·         Original

·         Most other people have copied this video and put it on their blogs and YouTubes so I think I will be fine because it’s public now.

 

·         I will use the link provided to cite my website because people can click on the link.

 

The last ad I have is called “Firms,” by Obama for America and can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud3mMj0AZZk

·         Author is Obama’s advertising team not a Super Pac

·         Website: Barackobama.com

·         This content is an video ad which has Mitt Romney singing in the background

·         I will incorporate this content because I can proved analysis of the context of this video and why Obama chose to use this ad and how it helps him in the election

Rights

·         Original

·         I can share this video it even says so tin the description box of the YouTube video

·         I will not intend to make money off this ad, so I can use it

 

·         The way I will cite this source is by providing the link in the project

Blog Post #5

The first web text, Dove Campaign for Real Beauty by Sara is very appealing to any audience. Even though it is intended to girls, it, overall, demonstrates that society’s perception of beauty is distorted by ads and corporations. Her texts make a great case for this. I enjoyed this one very much. I like how she organized it in a way that’s simple. You just click on the picture and BAMM! you are there. I found each text contributed to the larger picture and they all connected flawlessly.

The web text Life-Based Web Comics by Ariel was very different from the Dove campaign. First off, it required a lot of reading and you could not click on the images to look at them yourself. I did like the overall set up. The fact that it was talking cartons was very creative. I understood the approach but did not get the overall context of the web text. I did, however, like the way she organized her text in a sliding window. That gives me the idea to use a similar approach.

 

 I plan to organize me web text with a large picture of Obama in the middle spread out like Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man. In each limp I plan on putting different clickable text. And then describe each one once you click on the text sort of like Dove Campaign for Real Beauty.

multimedia texts

http://www.barackobama.com/education?source=primary-nav

http://mashable.com/2012/09/06/barack-obama-memes/

http://www.mittromney.com/issues/education

http://politicalhumor.about.com/b/2012/09/19/romney-47-percent-gaffe.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU0MVdq_ioQ&list=UUvixJtaXuNdMPUGdOPcY8Ag&index=10&feature=plcp

My Pitch For Obama

Hello everybody, as you may all know this November is your time to express yourself. This November is the time to decide. And this November is the time for you to become aware. Yes, these statements may seem broad. What does he mean? Is he speaking about the elections? Or What?

Exactly, now I got you thinking. Well, yes of course, this November is about the General elections. I’m sure you know about what this means. If you’re a Republican or Democrat or Independent, what options do we have? Let me be clearer, what Presidential nominees do we believe are the right ones. Now think for a moment. Let’s be honest, we do not have the greatest two available candidates right now.

Let me explain why. On one hand you have Mitt Romney. Yes Mr. Mitt “Gaffe” Romney. A quick Google search of Mitt Romney’s slip ups and you can find material for weeks. An overview of a few gaffes consist of the time when he call corporations people, or when he said, as a young boy he dreamed of being wealthy and famous and this would bring him happiness, then he ended the statement by saying, “and boy was I right.” And last but not least, how about when he singled out 47% of the population as being dependent and lazy. Either this is actually what Romney thinks or he just fumbles and fumbles time and time again. I will go along the lines to say yes this is what he thinks. He is very candid and doesn’t hold back, standing by his statements. However, there are the times when he flip-flops on his statements. Overall, he is not so great.

But then when we have the lesser of the two evils. The incumbent. The President of the United States. Mr. Barrack Obama. This man can give a speech and boy are they good. But does he deliver. It can be debated as to what he has delivered on, but his promises in the 2008 elections were so sky high that he himself said that the American people need not to expect so much and should lower their expectations. Furthermore, he promised to close down Gitmo, that didn’t happen. He promised to end the ridiculous war on drugs, which is costing tax payers and filling up the jails with non-violent criminals, but that hasn’t happen. In particular, his justice department has raided more dispensaries than the Bush administration. President Obama also passed the NDDA which allows for indefinite detention of United States’ citizens. This list goes on and on for this guy too

With the Romney-Ryan plan many Americans could get screwed and college students will suffer. For example, the Romney-Ryan plan plans to cut many social programs and cut grants to students. Also the biggest thing students should worry about is that Romney plans to send student loans back to the bank, this could turn into higher interests and more fees. Furthermore, cuts in education are also called for in the Romney-Ryan Budget.

However, let it be known that with Barrack Obama, the middle class has a likely chance to grow and the poor would benefit with Obama. Obama plans to cut taxes for the middle class, keep Pell grants and have the federal government make out the loans. Moreover, with Obama there have been a number of jobs being created after the nasty recession of 2008. Many critics would say it is not enough. I say that he got handed a house with a broken kitchen, no clean water and grime all over the place, let the guy have four more years to at least do some more cleaning.