Campaign Commercials that Rock!! Due Fri. Show Mon!

Media and Technology SLC
1st Annual Social Issues Media Showcase

Task: Create political commercial on Obama, McCain, or a Proposition

Awards Categories:
· Best Presidential Commercial
· Best Proposition Commercial
· Most Imaginative
· Most Humorous/satirical

In the Small Auditorium
Showcase 1: Lunch--November 3, 2008 Top Ten
Showcase 2: 3:10-3:45
Honorable Mentions and Awards Ceremony

Test 100 pts; Notebook 200 points; polit. video 200

500 pts for this report card
Make sure you have everything ready to score well on the text, notebook, and video!!

Mid semester mark already!!

TEST TOPICS FOR 10/30 100 pts. Study!

As usual this test will be a SHOW WHAT YOU KNOW. In other words, these topics will be listed as questions on the test.....so if you prepare you will do well. Good luck.

§Ch 6 sec 4
1.Political efficacy, gender gap, voter turnout chart/hi and lo % presidency
2.167--Voting by Groups; changes by sex, race, education, age
3.Factors that influence voters; income/occupation, education, gender, age, religion, ethnicity, family, party identification
Ch 8 1-2 Public opinion, opinion leader, mass media, liberal conservative
1. public opinion is determined by: 5 factors
2.Mass media Use 2007
3.Explain the political spectrum: Left, right, and center—
4.Apply to presidential campaign in short essay; 2,3…1,2
5.Mandate, random sample, quota sample, public opinion
6.Straw vote, scientific polling, universe, sample
Sec. 3Latino Media story p. 214, q. 1,2,3
1.Medium sound bite, public agenda
2.Internet access for info.
§TYPES OF ADVERTISING STRATEGIES
+Questions about Obama and McCain; Questions about prop 2 and 8

video conversion for political ad

§Look on google for ; HOW TO CONVERT you tube to .FLV or flash player .WMV
§Save on desktop
§Using Movie maker you import the video to your file
§Download from limewire music; import as audio in moviemaker
§Add transitions, effects
§Pictures---save as and import
§Proxy at school edilly.com to open YouTube

TEST CONTENT--details for follow in class

Test is on CH. 6 Sec 4 and CH. 8
Political Ad Strategies
Political Ad Analysis
Current Events: Issues concerning Prop. 2, prop 8
Presidential Campaign

Important Due Dates!!! for next week before report cards!

§IMPORTANT Due Dates:
§10/27: homework as assigned
§10/29: Notebook Check #2
§10/30: Test
§10/31: Political Ad on DVD
§11/03: Political Ads that Rock!
§Lunch and After School; small aud.
§Judging and awards
11/4 Election Day

HW for Fri and weekend...sorry I put this up late!

§Public Opinion: Read 208-212. 209 diagram and cartoon;
picture 210; Review graph 212; Assessment: Answer 1-5
§Analyzing political ads: 2, 3, 4 in your group.
§Hours of TV 5 hrsl.
§Min of news reading – 17 min 03 sec.
HW: Write a complete, informative report; 2 columns highlighting
The pros and cons of your issue. Show me that whatever your
Political ad may be, you understand the issues!! (You are not one of the dogs at the bar who ‘just got a smoke signal from your aunt Mary’.
HW: Read 215-221 Complete assessment 1-5
Test next week on Thursday 10/30….no notes!
Political ad due Friday 10/31

Political Ads Due 10/31 -200 pts; grades 11/7-

208-212
Answer questions under each chart or picture
Assessments 1-5

Make sure you start a 'library' of images for your political ad; use
the internet--photos, talking heads, sound bites, graphics
COLLECT this material as your 'footage' for your political add; keep it
on a flashdrive; think about a storyboard as you collect your material

Paragraph Assignment on political posters

1.Intro: the influence of the media in elections
2.Review 3 of the U.S. Presidents ad strategies 9a-9g
3.One successful presidential campaign. What were the issues that year??? What were the The Posters, the commercials, the results.
4.Conclusion: Did the image created help win the election; what the issues that led to victory.

why do you buy ed hardy, AF, Hollister and advertise for companies????

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  HW: Chapter Assessment: p. 174-5 11-14, 18-26, 35-6

Debates or Dodgers...that is the question. Answer: TIVO

§HW: Debates (again)….last one!
–Write a news report as a Republican or Democratic SPIN DOCTOR!! Spin it your way to benefit your candidate!!

Parent Night Thursday......report cards and candy in 121.

Yes, I blog. Therefore, I am. Therefore, you do HW>

HW: Interpret or answer questions to picture/graph.
p. 154, 155,156,167
Read. Vote Behavior p. 169-172 q. 4, 6

Monday HW: The Right to Vote!!

§HW: Read Ch. 6
§Interpret Jesse Jackson quote on 146
§Read pp. 148-150 q. 1,2,4,5
§define suffrage, electorate

Test Friday open notes

weekend hw: political parties; test next week on weds or friday

HW: Parties and what they do Ch. 5 sec 1
Explain the quote of John Stuart Mill on 114; how
Does it apply today to the Dems and Republicans?
What constitutional principle do you think the Framers of the Constitution might have used to explain the rise of political parties?
Answer Q. 1-5
Read 126-27 q. 1-2
Explain terms.

SAHRAH PALIN ROCKS!!

Watch debates
record 3 answers each candidates give to questions
evaluate their personality or impression on the viewer