11/19 group project

Project: 30 minutes

This next part of the project I did on my own. From last time we were supposed to research and find information about the H1N1 vaccine that had negative effects on people. We were also supposed to find a video online about our topic that we could potentially show along with our commercial. I find one story about a woman and she was going to be a cheerleader but then after the vaccine she could only walk backwards normally and talk normally when she was running.

I thought that was very interesting and we could possibly connect it to the H1N1 vaccine but this happened to the woman after getting the flu vaccine.

There is a lot of research on the H1N1 vaccine but I found that most of the negative effects and opposing viewpoint is the same from person to person that talks about it. Not all of it is though so I think the research part of the project won't be that hard to talk about.

Banding Owls

My friend Anna and I had the chance to band owls. For the Wildlife Society, they introduced this event to everyone and we all had the chance to participate. On saturday the 14th we traveled to a forest around Bloomington and met with some people who were leading the banding. First we helped take down the nets and they set up the speakers for the owls to come. What they did is they had a box with a recorder in it and on the recorder was a recording of an owl. This was so that other owls would be attracted to the sound and they would fly around the area and eventually fly in the net. After taking down the nets, we waited an hour and then checked the nets to see if any owls had flown into them. After checking it we waited another 45 minutes. Checked them again, and waited another 45 minutes. After checking the nets that last time we had decided to wait for one more time to see if we caught one. Hopeful to catch an hour we were waiting in the cold just to check the nets one last time. After waiting and checking the last time we were not successful. Even though we had not caught an owl I learned more about how to and more about that specific type of owl.

11/17 group project

Project: 1 hour

As of right now we are doing a commercial to illustrate to the opposite of what people think about the H1N1 vaccine. Instead of thinking that the vaccine is good and that you should get it, we will illustrate the harmful effects it has on people.

We worked on collaborating what each person would do and what we will do as a group. Right now we are, for our commercial, Lauren is writing the script and then me and me and Lindsay will help edit it. For the actually commercial Lindsay and I will be in it and Lauren will videotape it. Then for the editing, I will edit the video and after that we will work on combining the information we all gathered into the speech part of it.

For the research we are all looking up information about the bad effects of the vaccine and then we are looking for a video to go along with the information that explains it.

11/12/09-group project

Project: 10 minutes.

While looking up ideas and looking at websites for different public service announcements, it gave us some ideas to write about for our project talking about the H1N1 vaccination, fighting against the norm that we are against it.

From other commercials, they were real life stories and even though we may not be able to make ours funny, it incorporated that aspect that was easy to relate to.

As of now, we plan on making a commercial to relate to adults and parents that have children. The commercial would be about the negative effects and how the H1N1 vaccine has affected others in a negative way.

Progress Journal: work on specific details to include in our commercial and what points we are going to make.

November 10th threat at Ball Gym

Last night on November 10th 2009, there was a bomb threat at Ball Gym at Ball State University. All the students were sent an email that the building was evacuated and to stay away from the area. Right when my friends had read the email that was the first time I had heard about it because I had not read my email before they had. Word quickly spread down my side of the hall of coarse and one of my friends had mentioned that Lafollette was of coarse the biggest dorm at Ball State which I happen to be living in which then triggered more thoughts in my friends and mine minds. Once it was cleared I felt relief lift out of me and my friends. All is well at Ball State as we know it.

The Greatest Wedding Entrance Ever

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8DCt3Lmi28

For those of you who haven't seen this yet, it is a wedding entrance to the song Forever by Chris Brown. This video is just so creative it made me want to do something like that for my wedding! But the more I thought about it, the more thought that I wouldn't go through with something like this. All my life I have thought and been brought up with the elegant wedding entrance so that's how I still see myself going about it. As much fun as this would be to do something like this, I still want my wedding entrance to be the elegant, sweet and soft entrance it usually is.

The Wildlife Society

I am not really sure of what the Wildlife Society does that much, since I am just joining it, but today me and one of my friends went to order t-shirts for it. As we were on our way, it was in the Cooper science building of coarse, which I have to say is the easiest building to get lost in. I had no idea where I was going! But, when we were on the floor about to fill out the sheet I noticed that there were all the preserved animals up there. Just walking up there and being on the second floor there are a lot of animals! It made me realize that the buildings that I have not gone into yet have so much and I should really look around more!

DVDs

A couple things that I have always wanted to do is one travel, second I have always wanted a couple dvd series from tv shows, and three is kind of left open to what I think of that week. Right now I can't really think of anything really important or something that I can't wait to do other than I can't wait for the holidays but that doesn't really count. So, my list of traveling is always getting bigger because I see places other people have gone that look interesting or I just see places when I am online. But the list of the dvd series have never changed. The ones that I really want include all the seasons of Friends, all the seasons of Full House, all the seasons of Gilmore Girls, and all the seasons of 7th Heaven. I am aware that Full House and 7th Heaven are old but I still have always wanted them!