Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Blog Entry #5.9C - PSA Concept

Title of your PSA:
Unfriendly Stereotypes

What is the main topic of your PSA?
The main topic will be to learn how the accept different diversities.

Target audience: Will be for everybody

What solution will your PSA promote?
The solution will be to promote equality with people that are different from you.

What is your tag line?
"Dare to be different. Learn to accept"

What will we see happening in your PSA? What is the story? (At least one paragraph, if not more! Be extremely detailed!)

In the story there will be a group of friends looking through a year book. One of the friends will be pointing people out about their race or sexual preference. That person will be saying stereotypes that are involved.Eventually the friends will get fed with her comments and will leave her by herself.The person will be asking why their leaving and she will get no answer. At the end of the PSA she will look into the camera and just ask what did she do wrong and why did they react that way.

Blog Entry # 5.9A - Evaluation

Name of PSA: Brain on Drugs

Target audience: For adolescences because in refers to parents and the actress was young.

Tagline: "This is your brain on drugs"

Message: Drugs mess up your life. The different effects of using drugs

Sound used: Crashing, things breaking,yelling (aggressive), and slamming

Visual imagery used: Colors set the mood; character's dress sets a mood

Text used: Partnership for Drug Free America - organization or sponsorship

How did you feel when viewing this PSA? What were your emotions?
The emotions that I felt when I was viewing the PSA was a bit scared to use drugs because of the consequences of using drugs.

What action do you feel you need to take after viewing this PSA?
The action that I feel I have to take after viewing this PSA, is not use any type of drugs and influence my friends not to use them either.

What is one specific change that would make this PSA more effective?
One specific change that I would make to make this PSA more effective is show how a teens life changed after using drugs.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Monday, April 12, 2010

Blog Entry # 5.8 - Design Brief

I am going to design or make a Public Service Announcement for the topic, Accepting Differences (diversity). The PSA will show people the are different and how the act around each other. For example, a Caucasian with an African American or a gay person with a straight person. The target audience is everybody, because it doesn't matter if your young or an adult, there will always be a person that is different from you.

Blog Entry # 5.7 - Design Task

The design task is the make two PSA's on your assigned topic. One of the PSA's has to be a video and the other has to be a print PSA. The purpose of the PSA is to target a specific audience on the assigned topic. The topic that I have been assigned is Accepting Differences (Diversity).