Final Poster

Title: Blog Entry #5.9C - PSA Concept

Title of your PSA: Violence Prevention

What is the main topic of your PSA? To stop people from getting abused or beaten up

Target audience: Young teens and women
What solution will your PSA promote? For violence to stop and to have safer neighborhoods

What is your tag line? Stop the violence

What will we see happening in your PSA? What is the story? (At least one paragraph, if not more! Be extremely detailed!) In our PSA you will see lestons on gangs and the violence and drama that comes along with them. In any gang you join there are only two ways out either death or jail. In jail you are still not safe because there is always going to be a bigger badder gang with someone in it that chooses to make your life miserable.

Blog Entry #5.9A-Evaluation

Name of PSA: Brain on drugs

Target audience:People who are thinking of using heroin; young aduilts (mid to late teens, early 20s)

Tagline: This is your brain on drugs
-Confusing
-Not obvious

Message:
-Drugs make you crazy;don't use them
-Drugs affect you and others

Sound used:
Yelling
Bashing!
Smashing!
Too loud (attention grabbing,
abrasive)
Sound is a metaphor

Visual imagery used:
Anger- actions;visual
expression

Text used: Partner ship for a Drug Free America- organization

How did you feel when viewing this PSA? What were your emotions?
-Fear
-Scare Tactics
-Intense
-Mad/Anger
-Gloominess

What action do you feel you need to take after viewing this PSA?
-Don't take drugs; stay away
-Encourage others not to do drugs

What is one specific change that would make this PSA more effective?
-decreased the smashing noise to hear the words clearer

Week 3

Blog Entry #5.5 - Issue Research

1. Are you working alone or in a group? If you are working in a group, who are your group member(s)? I am in a group with Justice Ashby. Our group name is C.J.

2. What social issue have you been assigned? The social issue we were assigned to is violence prevention.

3. In order to develop an effective PSA you must feel a personal connection to the social issue that you are addressing. What does this social issue mean to you? What the social issue means to me is violence needs to stop because it's affecting the people around me.

4. What group(s) is/are affected by your assigned social issue? Groups affected by my social issue are people that are in gangs and they're whole life has been surrounded by violence.

5. What potential negative impact can this issue have? The gang can have enemy gangs and they might resolve to getting a gun and inflicting either death or a lot of damage.

6. What research (statistics) can you use to support your argument that this is a social issue that needs to be addressed? 877,700 were injured by violent actions in the year 2002.

7. Agency/Organization
a. List the name of an agency/organization that has been established to address your assigned social issue. The organization I chose is Family First Aid.

b. What is their complete contact information? (Include web address, phone number and street and/or email address) Their contact information is http://www.familyfirstaid.org/youth-violence.html, their number is 1866-929-6933.

c. Describe how this organization is connected to your social issue. This organization is connected to my social issue because they want the violence to stop especialy violence against our communities youth.

8. What steps can be taken to address this issue? (List at least three steps that can be taken) More patroll officers can be hired to patrol the streets and corners to clean out the drug dealers and the gang members.

Blog Entry #5.1-Definitions

Cody Wiggins 3/19/10

1. What is a public service announcement (PSA)? An announcement for public interest to stop physical & verbal abuse to others doings.
   
   
2. Describe an example of a PSA you have seen before. A PSA I’ve seen before was about animal cruelty and in the video they showed animals with their ribs showing and scarred up beaten down animals.
   
   
3. What social benefit is promoted by the PSA you selected in question 2? People will stop saying things about stuff that can be offensive to others. Or people will stop saying things that mean words that can offend certain groups of people.
   
   
4. Nike's tagline is "Just Do It." In your own words, what is a tagline? A tagline is like a slogan to get people to do things.
   
   
5. Name another famous product or company and its tagline. Gatorade is a famous product, and its tagline is get energized.
   
   
6. What social issues do you feel strongly about? I feel strongly about animal cruelty. I feel sad about it because animals don’t do anything to deserve the beatings they receive and it pains me because there is nothing they can do about it.

Blog Entry # 4.7 - Final Poster

Blog Entry # 4.6 b. - Week 3

Blog Entry # 4.6-Week 3

Blog Entry # 4.1 Country Research

1. Name of Country: Latvia

2. Web Addresses of all Sources (copy and paste) https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/lg.html, http://www.geographicguide.net/europe/maps-europe/maps/latvia-map.jpg
3. Basic Facts
a. Capital City: Riga
b. Population: 2,231,503
c. Monetary Unit/Currency: Lati
d. Official Language(s): Latvian

4. Current Leader
Name: President Valdis ZATLERS
Photo:

5. Photo of Flag:

6. Map of Country: