Continue APB Ad 2

AGENDA 6/16/08: This is our last week together, so let us enjoy it!!

1. Tell me about it
2. keep working on your ad

TELL ME ABOUT IT: Copy the following sentence and answers into your email, answer it, and email it to me.(10 min)

Your grades have been updated. Check your grades. After you have checked your grades, start working on your project. Today is a working day, all we are doing is finishing the projects. AIM FOR AN "A" IN YOUR AD, this way your grade will not come down. What do you think it will take in order for you to get an "A" in your ad? Copy and answer the question in your email and email it to me.

CLASSWORK: After you are done with your Tell me about it, start working on your ad. Make sure you complete the following activities!!


Activity 1: Create the first two scenes in your ad. Wednesday you might not have time to finish it. You will present on thursday, your final will be base on your commercial and presentation. Pay attention to what you are learning while creating your ad, you will be asked about it during the presentation.

Start APB Ad 2 !

AGENDA 6/12/08: This will be part of your final!!

1. Tell me about it
2. Go over bee presentation
   
3. Go over story boarding
   
4. Show edgardos recommendation page.
   
5. Start working on flash ad.
   

TELL ME ABOUT IT: Copy the following sentence and answers into your email, answer it, and email it to me.(10 min)

What is your slogan? How do you plan to show it visually? Who are you going to target, the kids or the parents? by the way tell me something new you learned on your field trip yesterday.

CLASSWORK: After you are done with your Tell me about it, start working on your ad. Make sure you complete the following activities!!


Activity 1: Find three images that you can use in your ad.

Activity 2: Manipulate 2 of those images in fireworks in order to make them look the way you like.

Activity 3: Create your first scene of the flash ad. In another words, add the background and still images of your add. For example: if there are clouds in your add, draw the clouds out and the sky.

New ad for APB.

AGENDA 6/9/08: This will be part of your final!!

1. Tell me about it
2. Go over Slogans
   
3. Go over story boarding
   
4. Show video commercials
5. Find a flash commercial online and write what their message is.
   

TELL ME ABOUT IT: Copy the following sentence and answers into your email, answer it, and email it to me.(15 min)

What is an ad? Why do you think ads are important to companies? Find the answers using google. I THINK YOU GUYS CAN DO BETTER.

CLASSWORK: After you are done with your Tell me about it, start working on your web page. Make sure you complete the following activities!!


Activity 1: Do SQ3R notes on the following article. You only have to write about the sections that are in red.

Activity 2: We will go over slogans. You will brainstorm to create a slogan for APB.

Activity 3: Go over story boarding presentation. What is a storyboard and how do we create storyboards.

Activity 4: Show commercials from other high schools. The commercials have been done with video, but the same elements can be apply to creating an ad.

Activity 5: Start story boarding your ad for APB.

Cool Projects

The following are acceptable projects. I want to thank those who did the following work. I am sure it was not easy but you did not give up. "The strongest people are the ones that struggle against adversity and obstacles; and surmount them - TO SURVIVE!!"

Animo is the Best!!

Hand writing

Raising the bar 1

Flying into APB : )

Because...

Reflection and Flash Test!!

AGENDA 6/5/08: Today you will have a test! The test is worth 50 pts. I will explain it after the tell me about it.

• Tell me about it
• Self Reflection Paper!
  
• Test Project!!.
  

TELL ME ABOUT IT: Make sure you answer in complete sentences.(10min)

• What non-technology skills did you learn while doing the Animo Pat Brown project? Think about the entire process of creating the ad. Maybe there were some obstacles you had to overcome or you were challenge in a different ways. Make sure you answer is at least a paragraph.
  

CLASSWORK: Today you will have a flash test. The test is hands on. You will be able to use the internet as a resource but not your classmates. I DO NOT WANT TO SEE ANYONE TALKING WHILE DOING THE TEST. Is it going to be hard? Maybe, only you know that!!

Project: Do the following TEST. Please be quite and independent while you do the following exercises. The exercises are all part of a collective TEST. This is a hands on test. I will explain exactly what to do in about 10 minutes. Be ready to take notes and ask questions to clarify any misunderstandings.

1. (15 pts) Write a one page reflection paper on your Animo Pat Brown Ad. Make sure to include answers to the following questions. What would you do different next time you do a flash project? Why? How would you plan a flash project in the future? Do you feel your project was done in a professional manner? why or why not? What was the message you were trying to convey in your project? If you did not have a message, why didnt you have a message? What was the most difficult part of creating the Ad Project? Make sure you use paragraphs, good grammar, and no mispelled words.
   
2. (15 pts) Create a new flash document and name it "bee_guide". Find a small bee on the internet. Use a motion guide to control the bee in your flash movie. The bee needs to fly up, come back down, go back up and make a loop in the air. Give your canvas a black background and add a cloud to your canvas. Publish your movie as a .swf file.
   
3. (10 pts) Create another file and name it "triangle". You will create a shape tween using a triangle and a rectangle. You will make your triangle convert into a rectangle. Save it and publish it as a .swf file.
   
4. (10 pts) Create a new file and name it "Text tween". You will add a shape tween to your text. Your First word should be ANIMATION your second word should be FLASH. Tween the word ANIMATION into the word FLASH. Make sure your words are creative, not just plain text!!
   
5. ( 15 pts) Create a new file and name it "gradient_tween". You will Add a gradient tween to the words "ANIMO PAT BROWN". You will make the gradient move from the left to the right hand side of the words. You will also add a REPLAY button to the end of the movie.
   
6. (10) Find a tutorial on how to add music to your flash project and rewrite the tutorial in a word document. Do not copy and paste, make sure you write it in your own words.
   
7. Add the end of all this activities, you should have 6 different files. You are required to make a new folder inside your personal folder on the server and name it "flash test". Save all your files inside the flash test folder.
8. After you are done with your Flash Test, please be quite until everyone is done. You may fix your Ad project if you like. I will give you 15 more pts for your project. Remember the percentage is very important.
   
9. "Idleness" is your GRADES kryptonite. : -( !!

Finish APB Ad!!

AGENDA 6/2/08: READ THE BLOG to find out what you need to do in class. Be good to the sub! You will start presenting your ad on wednesday!!

• Tell me about it
• Critique your ad!
  
• Add a gradient tween to your ad.
  
• Add the replay button to your ad.
• Button/link Tutorials!!
  
• Work on ad
  

TELL ME ABOUT IT: Make sure you answer in complete sentences.(10min)

• You will be presenting on wednesday! Does your ad convey a clear message? Are you persuasive with your ad? What can you do to improve your ad?
  

CLASSWORK: The commercial will be worth 100 pts. The best commercials will be use for the front page of our web page. Please be good with the sub!!

Project: You will create a 20 sec. flash ad (commercial) for APB. Your audience consist of middle school students and parents. The objective of the ad is to persuade them to come to our school (not to scare them away enrique!). Today you will accomplish the following.

1. Add the images you manipulated last week in fireworks into your ad.
   
2. Add the replay button to your ad.
   
3. Add a gradient tween to your ad.
   
4. Finish your first draft today!! you will present it on Monday. Make sure that your ad is telling a story. Every ad tells a story.
   
5. Extra pts if you add a music sound to your flash!
6. Using google, find a tutorial on how to add sound to your flash movie and do it. Make sure you do this on the last 45 minutes of class. YOU SHOULD BE DONE WITH YOUR AD. if you are not, what are you waiting for?
   
7. "Idleness" is your GRADES kryptonite.