Patterson’s Class Blog

Your assignment is to choose one of the following articles:

Long Hours @ EA Video Games

Solving Crimes with Cellphones

After reading, answer the questions on the board on your own paper and turn in by the end of class. Enjoy.

Oh, by the way:

An article about Crocs…I remember when everyone was laughing at them…

We’re going to apply for a $500 scholarship today.

All that’s required is that you answer four questions about your opinions on education. 

 GO TO:   http://www.georgiago.org – scroll down, look for “NEWS” in the middle
of
the page.
Under “GO SCHOLARSHIPS” click on “MORE.”
Click on “Applying for a GO Scholarship.”
Scroll down and click on “GO Scholarship Online Application.”

You can also print the application: Scholarship Application

You learned a bit about the history of networks, the basic parts of a network and the reasons why networks are needed.Time to move on.But first, a quick review activity.

Terms:super: words on screen
VO: voice over–narration or talking during the spot

Another example: http://www.pcactionfund.org/withoutdelay/blunt_adscript.htm

Ecstasy Youth Commercial
Description: 45 Sec TV Script

NARRATIVE: We open on a scene in a nightclub. A girl is lying on the floor. She has collapsed and is sweating profusely. Her friends are frantic around her. They ask her if she is alright and roll her over. Her distraught boyfriend watches on:

Girlfriend: “What did she take?”

Boyfriend: “I don’t know what was in it …I think it was ecstasy”

The camera moves rapidly through a nearby TV showing a film clip. We are suddenly in the bedroom of a 16-year-old girl. She is sitting forlornly on her bed, tears rolling down her cheeks. We hear her boyfriend speak:

Boy: “I don’t know why she takes it.she always gets so depressed coming down.”

The camera moves rapidly through the glass of the girl’s window and into the window of a building across the road. We are in a dental surgery. A young guy is in the chair with a dentist operating on his mouth. We hear the young guy’s thoughts, as well as the dentist’s voice during the examination. We cut away to a rapid montage of damaged teeth close-ups and the guy’s agonised face:

Dentist: “You’ve done quite a bit of damage in there.”

Guy: “I didn’t know how many health problems it could cause”

Dentist: “The grinding has cracked your front teeth..this is pretty serious.”

The camera moves rapidly through a picture on the wall. The curtains in the picture suddenly become curtains around a bed in an intensive care unit in a hospital. They pull to one side as we see a young man experiencing toxic meltdown. Hospital staff are frantically trying to reduce his body temperature as his distraught parents look on.

We hear the voice of his friend.

Girl: “I don’t know whether he’s going to make it….he just wanted to try something new.”

A super appears and we hear:

” Ecstasy. You don’t know what it’ll do to you”

For more information call 1800 250 015 or visit www.drugs.health.gov.au

We also see a Government crest

The screen goes blank and a government authorisation appears.

VO: Authorised by the Australian Government, Canberra .

Super: Authorised by the Australian Government, Canberra .

The above schedule is IT. No deviating from it. We’ll be starting networking beginning on February 14th, so your only class time to do this is until then.

I urge you to utilize OUT-OF-CLASS time to improve your projects.