Topics for Promotional Video

The focus area for my promotional video for Blackville School would be the High School.
In my video I would include a mixture of images, video and testimonial from students.
In my video I would talk about and show the different courses offered in High School. I would also highlight the different after school activities offered to high school students.
Some aspects I liked about the video I watched in my past blog entry were that the video had music and lots of video footage. I also liked how the video showed different aspects of the school not just what happens in the classroom, but also many of the extracurricular activities that happen at that school.

University Promotional Video

This is a promotional video of Birmingham City University.
I liked how this video showed all the different buildings that are located on the university's campus as well as off campus. I also liked how they used music through out the video, but would have liked it more if they had used more than one song. This video did a great job of showing appealing images of the university and what life is like there.

This video's target audience is students entering university. More specifically it is targeted towards people who want to enter into arts, fine arts and nursing; as well as people who want to live on campus. In this video they showed many fine arts and nursing buildings, but not science or math buildings. This video showed many of the extracurricular activities that the university offers. The promotion also was targeted at students with children and need child care.

The people who made this video were trying to send the message that you should come to their school. They conveyed this by showing the viewer all they had to offer new students and all the benefits that are included with choosing this school.

This video is persuasive by using many appealing images and by showing the positive qualities that the university has to offer.

Animation for Adults

Adult cartoons are very popular into today's media culture. I myself watch ones like The Simpson's and Family Guy. The reason I like these cartoons are because they are humorous and are on TV all the time. These are not like a lot of TV series that you have to watch every week to know what it happening.

Many adult cartoons are criticized for their content, but I think that is what makes many people watch. Some episodes may have content that would offend some cultures or religions, but people should also remember that it is a joke and should not be taken seriously. I personally have never been offend by any of the content on these shows, but at times I could see how some people would be.

Many parents do not let their children watch shows such as The Simpson's and Family Guy due to a lot of it's content. Some episodes are a little inappropriate for younger audience, but a parent who decides to let their children watch these shows could watch them first to see if they are appropriate. In my opinion many episodes have gone to far in their content to allow younger children to watch them.

Ever since adult cartoons came out in the 1990's they have been continuing to grow in popularity and I believe that they will continue to do so.

Cartoons from the 1920-1940

After watching some cartoons from the 1920-1940's today, some of the things I found interesting were, that the older cartoons didn't have any words, just music. I found the older ones were more like a story book, than the cartoons you see on TV today.

The cartoons from the 1920 to the 1940's used humour, the same as many cartoons today. The cartoons from then also used music to help animate the storyline, music is still used in cartoons today as a tool in helping the story come across to the audience.

Something that I was surprised to learn about cartoons today, was when the first coloured cartoon came out. I didn't realize that it came out as early as the 1930's.

Cartoons are still a very big part of the media world today. Cartoons are not just used as a TV show, but also a form of advertisement. Many companies use cartoons in their ad campaigns because they know how much the general public likes them.I think that cartoons are still so popular in today's world because they can reach a big range of age groups and demographics.

I grew up watching Disney cartoons and after watching the cartoons from the 30's and 40's I realized that these are some of the cartoons I watched. I have watched movies such as Snow White, which was the first feature length cartoon ever made, it came out in the 1930's.
I think people today would still like many of these cartoons. Some people may be bothered by the lack of colour, but many kids and adults still like the old Disney cartoons as well as many others.

FatKat Animation

FatKat Animation is an animation studio, which works in the media and communication industry. Before researching FatKat, this was a company that I did not know anything about. Some things I learned are that FatKat Animation is owned and operated by Gene Fowler. Fowler started the company in Halifax, Nova Scotia but later moved to his home town of Miramichi, New Brunswick. FatKat has worked on many TV shows such as Happy Tree Friends, Caillou, Family Guy, and Odd Job Jack. FatKat has also worked on commercials for companies such as I Can't Believe it's Not Butter!, Pepsi, Microsoft, and Toyota.
FatKat Animation is a company that is ever growing. It continues to grow in employees and is the fastest growing animation studio in Canada; as well as the largest animation studio in Atlantic Canada.

FatKat Animation has a blog http://fatkatanimation.blogspot.com/ which is very eye catching. This blog has a great header which is full of colour. I also like the blogs layout and their entries. I like how they show different clips and pictures that they have created. There wasn't really much I disliked about this blog.

Some questions I would like to ask Robbie Anderson when he comes to our school next week are, Did you do more school after high school? and What is the most challenging part of you job?

Amanda Goes To School

This is a video me and Amanda made of different video shots: