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Media Log Assignments

The following assignments need to be in your media log:

All media log entries are evaluated using the rubric that is attached to your course outline.

You can start creating your media log on www.wikispaces.com. Please remember to use your school email when signing up.



1. **Start-Up (20 marks):**


 * Family and Friends (people in your life)
 * Music you listen to (bands, genres, favorite songs, etc.)
 * Magazines and Books (titles, genres, favorites, etc.)
 * Movies (favorites, genres, etc.)
 * Internet Sites (ones you seem to visit most frequently)
 * Brands you wear and the style of clothes
 * TV Shows you watch


 * 2. Twitter (10 marks): **

Please answer the following questions in your media log about using Twitter for a week:

**What is Twitter to me personally?** **What do I like about Twitter?** **What do I not like about Twitter?** **How could I use Twitter in a different way other than Facebook?** **Will I continue to use Twitter after we are done looking at it in class? Why or Why not?**

Remember, be honest and back your answers up with reasons!

**3. Ark Music Factory (10 marks)**:

Please answer the following questions in your media log about Ark Music Factory:

**Use the videos from March 28th to April 1st entries in the "What did we learn today" section to help you answer the following questions**

1. What is Ark Music Factory to you?  2. What is your first impression of them?  3. What are they in the business to do?  4. Ark Music Factory is new to us. However, is what they are doing any different than what Disney has done for Miley Cyrus or Selena Gomez (obviously their careers are soaring) ? What about Justin Bieber (the Bieber hair guy. heard of him?)? He was found on YouTube by Usher and signed to Def Jam records. Could Ark Music be the next big company to find new talent? Why or why not? explain.


 * 4. VALS (Values and Life-Styles) Activity 5 from Advertising unit handout (15 marks)**:

In your media log, describe yourself and 3 friends or family members and decide which VALS group each person belongs to. Many people fit into more than one group. Remember to explain who they are are, which Psychographic they fit into, and the brands that advertisers would use to market to them specifically (refer to advertising handout for notes).


 * 5. Popaganda: $ellebrity (10 marks) **

This was the documentary we watched in class about how musicians use their music and fame to sell products to us. You were to write down 5 interesting things that you took away from this show that you didn't know before when it came to marketing in the music business.


 * 6. Sexy Inc. (15 marks)**

Based on the documentary we watched in class, please answer the following questions from the handout that was provided to you: > Age 6? 9? 12? Think of someone you know.
 * 1) Do I agree with everything that is being shown to me in this movie? Is there some things that I disagree with that they talk about? Why?
 * 2) Does the topics that are discussed in this movie visible in our school?
 * 3) As students that are older, could you see where hypersexualization could be influential in people that are younger than you?
 * 1) Is there a line between what advertisers use to sell their products in what is decent and what crosses the line of pornography or sexual saturation? Is the line clear? Is it blurred? Is there a line? You decide.
 * 2) Is it too late to back off on hypersexualization and its effect on young people? Why do you think that?




 * 7. Transformers (10 marks)**

During out advertising unit, we looked at product placement in a major movie and how having those products displayed helped with the budget of the movie. You were to find as many products as you could and how they were displayed (position, voice, use) You were then to answer the following question in your media log:

Is “Transformers” just one big advertisement for many different kinds of companies? Why or why not? Did you feel that having so many product placements in the movie took away from the storyline? Why or why not? Please give as many details as you can. You can also use other movies or TV shows you have seen before as examples.




 * 8. LOVE: The Beatles (20 marks)**

As we watch the documentary "All Together Now" Please answer the following questions:

1. What types of problems did the creators of the show have when it came to creating LOVE? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Comic Sans MS'; margin: 0px;">2. How did they overcome those problems? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">3. As you watch the documentary, what would encourage you to go and <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">see this production in Las Vegas, if you were given the opportunity? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Comic Sans MS'; margin: 0px;">Be specific. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">4. If you were one of the four members of The Beatles and you knew <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">that YOUR music was being used for this show what would be really <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Comic Sans MS'; margin: 0px;">worried about? Listen to Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr’s interviews. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">5. In the bonus feature “Making Love” tell me two things that you learn <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">about the types of media the producers used to bring the audience <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Comic Sans MS'; margin: 0px;">into the show. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">6. What are five things that you learned about the process of creating a <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">show like LOVE?




 * 9. It's a Girl's World (10 marks)**

As we watch the documentary, "It's a Girl's World" Please answer the following question depending on which gender you are:

**Girls**, you are going to have one question to answer. This answer will appear in your media log. Here is your question: **Does this documentary do a good job of portraying what happens in the lives of preteen and teenage girls? Yes or No? Why? Give examples.**

**Boys**, you too, get your own question: **What elements of this documentary surprised you with the way that girls treat each other? How does that differ from the way that guys treat each other when it comes to conflict? Give examples.**