Introduction to the tech fair

Criteria A
Week 1:
This week I had started researching and finding a specific topic to start for the tech fair project. In class Yousief and I were thinking of working together and finding a topic for the both us. First we had thought of a hoverboard but after researching it was pretty complicated and the both of us barely understood. When we searched on images of hoverboards we a saw a boat shaped vehicle riding the water. We opened the website and saw that it was called a hovercraft. We searched on google images hovercraft and we saw on Youtube that many people made small constructions of a hovercraft which works. We continued watching and saw the ways to make an RC hover craft. We have finished of the task for the day given to us

Week 2:
This week we had got our final idea which was the RC hovercraft. We started on the powerpoint and from then on we collected materials as we went on throughout the weeks. It was quite expensive so we had to think of ways to earn money. We had snipped the website page and locations of where we can find the materials. We started working on the actual material/ project.

Week 3:
This was the worst week for me Yousief  kicked me out of the group for no reason and went on working alone. It was really hard when I already made the video with him. so I went on looking for another partner and I had finally found a partner which was also looking for one. It was Karim he had appreciated me and from then on we have been working together really well. Karim sent me the powerpoint he had made and from that week we always finished our work on time and in the amount of time given. We started on our video and we agreed to finish everything on that day so I can send it to him so he posts it on Blogger.

Week 4:
Durnig this week it was evaluation week, we had to make a peer evaluation and a self evaluation. Karim could not keep contact so for the peer evaluation I did it for my self. Karim and I have worked well since then.

Sports equipment advertisement (beautiful I know right)

This is my advertisement by hand The layout of my advert has 1 picture at the back and 1 slogan. It has borders with many persuasive adjectives  and some sentences about the product.

Publisher definitions

Methods of advertising

This is a poster about the methods of advertising:

Comparing different Methods of advertising:

• Magazines
• Pop up referral ads
• Television
• Out of home ads 
• Inside of home
• Radio
• Signs
• Social media
• Newspapers
• Other

Advantages and disadvantages of advertising:

Magazines:

Disadvantages:

• Regional testing, can’t often be done as magazines area often national

Advantages:

•  Long Life: magazines have a longer life than newspapers, they sit about in doctor’s waiting rooms, magazine racks and with collectors.

Newspapers:
Disadvantages:

• Most paid-circulation papers, both daily and weekly, reach the majority of homes in their primary city or town.

Advantages:

• It has a relatively short life span, newspapers are typically read once, then discarded, thus requiring multiple insertions.

Television:
Disadvantages:

• When you advertise on TV, your commercial is not only competing with others, it is also competing with the viewer’s environment as well.

Advantages:

• It has the ability to convey your message with sight, sound and motion, and can give a product or service instant validity and prominence.

Radio:
Disadvantages:

• Not all products and services are suited for radio advertisements.

Advantages:

• Just like television, radio advertising has the ability to reach a very large group of people at the same time.

Social media
Disadvantages:

• Media ads take time and effort and costs a majority of money.

Advantages:

• Social media marketing is cost-related.

Pop up referral:
Disadvantages:

• It can drive away your current audience.

Advantages:

• It’s the first thing that visitors see when they go to your site.

Signs:
Disadvantages:

•  A person will see your billboard for about two to three seconds.

Advantages:

• They are on the streets, you'll be guaranteed that people will see your advertising.

Design situation Inquiry and analysis

Statement of inquiry: Advertisements as a form of communication have evolved through time and space to influence audience's perspective.

Introduction:
My name is Adam Iich, I am a student of Technology. As part of the MYP design in term 1, we are using the software called Desktop Publisher that helps design flyers, posters, CD-Covers and brochures. Desktop Publishing enables us to create awareness or send quotes and messages around the school/neighborhood.

I study in Emirates International School Meadows. I have seen that we have newsletter being generated in our school but students are rarely contributing towards it. So I am planning to develop a movie advertising the need to write articles on the activities done in school.
So for my MYP project I intend to create a feasible solution that rectifies these issues. For this project I will have to collect data on what kind of skills are required to improve the techniques I already know.

 

You should be able to explain and justify the need to create the advertisement for your chosen company/cause. The need is to make our school become world wide and make our school proud. Why do you think you need to create an advertisement for the chosen product? To increase the courage of my team and make us win the competition. Did you ask anybody to whom the advert would be useful and how? The advert is useful to me in becoming an F1 schools champ. Who is your Target Audience? Sponsors and parents. Why are you choosing the target audience mentioned? They can support our team in paying money for making the car and other details. What do you intend to do for him/her.(Flyer/newsletters/brochures/magazines etc. Flyers. What are your strengths in using DTP and using video editing software? Understanding, Skillful and productive during work.Which software you will be using and why will you be using the software? Piktochart, word document and movie maker. What will be the highlight of your advertisement? The formula 1 car. How long you will take to do it? A couple of hours that's all.

My Dubai Cares Flyer

Dubai Cares

 

 

What is Dubai Cares:

• Dubai Cares is a philanthropic organization working to improve children's access to quality primary education in developing countries.
• Launched in September 2007 by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai, Dubai Cares expresses the UAE's commitment to achieving, by 2015, United Nations Millennium Development Goals 2 and 3 - namely, to guarantee universal primary education and to promote gender equality, respectively.
• Dubai Cares is also helping to forge a global partnership for development, as represented by United Nations Millennium Development 8.

These are children which were helped by Dubai cares and are getting thought by Dubai cares, It has been a big difference for them.

 

 

These children are illiterate, which means they don't know how  to read or write.

 

 

We can do anything to help the illiterate children by donating any stationary for school. For more information visit http://www.dubaicares.ae/en.

 

 

 

 

 



The World Of Advertisements

Factors to be considered when creating advertisements

Here is an example of an advertisement

 Task 1:

How to create an advertisement:

Advertisements

Advertisements are made for many reasons such as:

1. Trying to make them buy a product


2. Trying to raise awareness for an important subject


3. Just there to be funny and enjoyable


4. Trying to tell other people to donate something


5. Etc.

If you make an effective advertisement It may have any of these:

• Songs


• Children


• Famous celebrities e. j sportsmen, singers, etc


• The way the product works


• role models showing why they prefer this product


• Slogans and catchy/ descriptive language which relates to company or the product

To influence the viewers mind you must make your advertisement unique and grab their attention to buy your product. Each advertisement is presented through suitable media, before publishing the ad you must think about the media through which the person is going to advertise. It is important to choose suitable media for the advertising of the product.

Advantages:

• (1) Introduces a New Product in the Market:

Advertising plays significant role in the introduction of a new product in the market. It stimulates the people to purchase the product.

• (2) Expansion of the Market:

It enables the manufacturer to expand his market. It helps in exploring new markets for the product and retaining the existing markets. It plays a sheet anchor role in widening the marketing for the manufacturer’s products even by conveying the customers living at the far flung and remote areas.

• (3) Increased Sales:

Advertisement facilitates mass production to goods and increases the volume of sales. In other words, sales can be increased with additional expenditure on advertising with every increase in sale, selling expenses will decrease.

• (4) Fights Competition:

Advertising is greatly helpful in meeting the forces of competition prevalent in the market. Continuous advertising is very essential in order to save the product from the clutches of the competitors.

• (5) Enhances Good-Will:

Advertising is instrumental in increasing goodwill of the concern. It introduces the manufacturer and his product to the people. Repeated advertising and better quality of products brings more reputation for the manufacturer and enhances goodwill for the concern.

• (6) Educates The Consumers:

Advertising is educational and dynamic in nature. It familiarises the customers with the new products and their diverse uses and also educates them about the new uses of existing products.

• (7) Elimination of Middlemen:

It aims at establishing a direct link between the manufacturer and the consumer, thereby eliminating the marketing intermediaries. This increases the profits of the manufacturer and the consumer gets the products at lower prices.

• (8) Better Quality Products:

Different goods are advertised under different brand names. A branded product assures a standard quality to the consumers. The manufacturer provides quality goods to the consumers and tries to win their confidence in his product.

• (9) Supports The Salesmanship:

Advertising greatly facilitates the work of a salesman. The customers are already familiar with the product which the salesman sells. The selling efforts of a salesman are greatly supplemented by advertising. It has been rightly pointed out that “selling and advertising are cup and saucer, hook and eye, or key and lock wards.”

• (10) More Employment Opportunities:

Advertising provides and creates more employment opportunities for many talented people like painters, photographers, singers, cartoonists, musicians, models and people working in different advertising agencies.

• (11) Reduction in the Prices of Newspapers and Magazines Etc:

Advertising is immensely helpful in reducing the cost of the newspapers and magazines etc. The cost of bringing out a newspaper is largely met by the advertisements published therein.

• (12) Higher Standard of Living:

The experience of the advanced nations shows that advertising is greatly responsible for raising the living standards of the people. In the words of Winston Churchil “advertising nourishes the consuming power of men and creates wants for better standard of living.” By bringing to the knowledge of the consumers different variety and better quality products, it has helped a lot in increasing the standard of living in a developing economy like India.

Disadvantages:

• (1) Adds to Costs:

An organization has to spend large amount on advertising. It increases the cost of the products. To meet this expenditure, price of the product is raised. No manufacturer pays for the advertising expenses out of his pocket. Advertising, therefore, leads to unnecessary rise in prices. In this reference it is said that advertising costs are passed on to the consumers in the form of high prices.

• (2) Undermines Social Values:

Advertisement is a sort of day-dreaming for the people. These days it is taking the people away from reality and into the realm of artificiality. Through its medium people get information about new products.
Only very few products are of any use for them. The brilliance of new products really gets on their nerves. They want to buy them but have no resources at their command. Consequently, they start feeling upset with their present status. Taking it as a social evil, it can be said that advertisement undermines social values.

• (3) Confuses the Buyers:

Many a time distorted version of reality is shown in the advertising. Believing in advertising, consumers buy the product. On its use, they feel cheated.
They come to realise later that the information given in the advertisement was something else whereas the actual product was quite different from it. Thus, people lose confidence in advertising because of wrong presentation. In this reference it is said that advertising confuses rather than helps.

• (4) Encourages Sale of Inferior Products:

Every manufacturer projects his product as superior one in the advertisement. Therefore, the buyer is unable to decide as to which product is really good.
Consequently, it is difficult to get good quality product even after paying a handsome price for it. If a seller gets good price for some inferior product, it becomes a habit with him. It affects other sellers also. Therefore, it is said that advertisement encourages the sale of inferior products.

• (5) Some Advertisement is in Bad Taste:

Many times, foul language and objectionable pictures are used in advertising in order to attract a particular class. They may be insulting to a particular class. It causes decay of social values.

In conclusion:

Advertising is a great way of sharing ideas and raising awareness across the world/ city. Most of the advertisements made are for selling products, it is a great way for people to be introduced to the product. If the ad is posted on the internet the ad would be a world wide known product which everyone can take a look at and buy the product.

References:

• Agrawal, Deepak. "Factors to Be Considered When Creating Advertisements." Advertisements. Wordpress, n.d. Web. 15 Dec. 2009. <https://deepakagrawalblog.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/factors-need-to-be-considered-before-making-an-advertisement/>.   
• "Advertising." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 16 Oct. 2015. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertising>.                          
• "The Advantages & Disadvantages of Advertising on the Internet." Small Business. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Oct. 2015. <http://smallbusiness.chron.com/advantages-disadvantages-advertising-internet-4029.html>.   
• "Advantages and Disadvantages of Advertising." N.p., n.d. Web. <http://www.powerhomebiz.com/marketing-tips/advertising/advantages-and-disadvantages-advertising-mediums.htm>.                                              

Task 2: Associate an advert to each of the following.

1.What comes to your mind when you see this advert?

2.What is unique about this advert?

3.To what type of an advert can you relate it to?

4.Why is it related to that and give your explanation?

Association ad:

1.This ad makes me think that there are two legendary NBA basketball players but there is only one winner.

2.It is a clever way of comparing 2 different famous people into one face and a really great quote.

3.An association ad.

4.It is related because it is using famous NBA stars to show there can only be one winner.

Must-have ad:

1. The tomato slices are shaped into a Heinz jar of ketchup and it tells me its made from actual tomatoes.

2. It is unique because of the creativity in the art and with the slogan it makes it stand out this ad would grab peoples attention.
3. A must-have ad
4. It is related because it has a catchy slogan and a really creative way in the art of the ad.

Hype:
1. It looks delicious and I would like to eat it and it is not that expensive.

2. It has big bold words and it has very clear images on the advertisement.

3. A hype ad

4. It is related because it has big standing out words and very clear pictures.

Fear:

1. It looks disgusting and I would never want to look like that in my life.

2. It has good use of words as the slogan and it has used creativity in making the face look very ugly.

3. A fear ad

4. It relates to something I worry about and it attracts peoples attention and makes them feel afraid of the future.

Humor:

1. It looks as if the mans mouth is the logo of Nike and that tiger woods appreciates the company Nike.

2. The creative way of formatting the face and turning it into the shape of the company Nike.

3. Humor ad

4. It makes tiger woods look really funny and really happy with his really big smile.

Call to action:

1. That all offensive words are hurting the kid from the inside and the outside of the child and that we must stop bullying other people.

2. The layout of the words formed into a hand choking the child and really hurt.

3. A call to action ad

4. it is given and telling people to stop bullying or help someone who is getting bullied real bad.

Repetition:
1. There is something really big on sale and its only for a limited time.

2. It has a sentence with a sentence after it but in a smaller font and lighter and a word after it smaller and lighter.

3. A repetition ad

4.  It repeats a couple of important words in bold and changes sizes every time and at the end it is the main part.

Claim:

1. That it is effective and helps me understand and uses facts to help the ad.

2. It uses facts and a special font for serious writing and it is an understandable to many people.

3. A claim ad

4. It is related it has facts and it explains what and how the topic works.

Sense appeal:

1. That McDonalds tried their hardest on the advertisements but not in the actual restaurant.

2. It differentiates the actual burger to the advertisements burger by comparing the looks.

3. A sense appeal ad

4. It relates to your senses; touch for the bread, sight for the whole thing, taste for the burger and smell for the burger.

Special ingredients:

1. IT is cool because most of the chocolates melt in your hands but this one does not.

2. It has really catchy words and lots of people would get M&M's, it uses creative ways and it is persuasive.

3. A special ingredients ad

4. IT is related because the advert is trying to say that their chocolate is the best.

Testimonials and endorsements:

1. That Messi the soccer player helps and supports Pepsi the company.

2. This advert is using celebrities and a slogan to influence other people.

3. A testimonial and endorsement ad

4. It uses celebrities to support the companies product.

Games and activities:

1. It reminds me of the game monopoly and it tells what the game is about.

2. It is unique because of the cartoon images and an easy explanation about the game.

3. A games and activities ad.

4. It includes a cartoon figure and it is persuading you to play more of the game monopoly.

Introduction on Digital Design

About me:
My name is Adam Iich and i live in Dubai i have lived here for 8 years, my hobbies are reading, playing video games, and playing sports. My favorite lessons are Math, English, history and geography.I also like digital design because we work on computers, it is an electronic lesson with a nice teacher.

Digital Design Reflection:
During all the classes I have learnt so much about the IB learner profile and a lot about computers, It was fun researching about computers and learning more about them. I felt comfortable about working on a computer and learned new tools on word document. We learnt how to make a CD cover and actually using it.

Steps to make a CD cover:

1. Go to word publisher.
2. Pick a label for CD.
3. Insert 2 circles and align them around the circles.
4. Insert a picture in the bigger circle
5. Fill in the smaller circle with white color
6. Place the white circle in the middle
7. Save document and then you are done.

You can use the cover of any of your favorite CD's.