Harlem Shake

The Deca classes, junior and senior deca and the IMDD class, made a Harlem shake video.  Harlem Shake is a new viral video sweeping the web.  The idea came from one of the IMDD students after he saw the video.  He told us on a Tuesday, we planned it out Wednesday, and performed it Thursday.  It shows how fast things can move along.  It took us about twenty minutes to perform the dance.  It starts as one person, whose face can not be shown, is dancing in a room full of people.  The other people have to act as if nothing is happening.  As soon as the beat drops in the song Harlem Shake, everyone appears in crazy clothing and starts dancing crazy.  We did the video to promote one stop prom shop.  People will view the video for fun, and see morph suits and one stop prom shop colors.  Then the last thing they will see is the one stop prom shop logo and all its information.  Check it out on YouTube at one stop prom shop Harlem shake or, www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynsnTqn35TI

One Stop... Prom Shop Part 2

Our project, the One Stop Prom Shop, is helping our DECA classes learn to collaborate.  The Junior DECA is planning out the event, the overall order of events.  The IMDD class is split up into two parts, the morph team and the video team.  We also came up with the idea of the game show that the Senior DECA is now in charge of planning.  The IMDD class video team is making a stop motion video to play at the assembly that will tell about the OSPS, but also, it is meant to simply entertain the audience.  The Morph team is planning and practicing an organized dance to show, by far the best part of the assembly.  All together this assembly will be amazing when it is all put together and finalized.  Hopefully everyone else thinks so.

One Stop... Prom Shop

We are have a new project in class, the One Stop Prom Shop.  My groups project is to learn a dance dressed up as morphs.  It's a secret what dance or dances so noone else can know.  We have been practing every day for the past week and have to practice over break.  The assembly is in February so we have plenty of time and it will end up perfect.  Sorry for being short, but I can not say much about it. You can know more in February.

New Business Experience

Recently we have all found local businesses to work with.  I found Window Imaginations by Cheryl.  She wants me to design a business card for her 260 are property in Pennsylvania.  She wants a picture of her land as the background, and her information on the card.  The rest was kind of open to me and my own creativity.  I have designed about 30 cards so far, sent them all to her, and recieved feedback.  She picked the first one and had me make a couple adjustments to it. Right now I am awaiting her response to what she thinks, hopefully it is good feedback...

Yearbook Covers

Our main project this week consisted of making covers for the Cuyahoga Falls yearbook.  Most people based their covers around tigers, as we are the black tigers.  I got the ideas for my first cover, using a fierce looking tiger to signify our fierceness and want to win.  The Cuyahogan is spelled out with the letters made of tiger stripes.  I also played around with a few filters to give it a darker, bolder looking effect.  I did close to the same thing with my second design.  The main difference was that instead of a full tiger body, I just used the tiger head peering through the bushes.  The main colors for both are black and gold, for our school colors, and white, to stick out a little.  The two covers are listed below.

 

Black Friday

This Friday is the Black Friday, and a lot is going on with it already.  I will be shopping that morning but stores open on Thanksgiving.  This is causing a lot of debate.  I hope to find a lot of deals sound systems and hopefully some fish stuff before they are all sold out.  The name Black Friday came from the red zone and black zone term.  Stores are normally in the red zone which is where they have spent more than they have sold.  The black zone is where they have sold more than they have bought.  Black Friday is generally when most stores move from the red zone to the black zone.  Last year's Black Friday gave three main focuses of the stores to help the consumers. First, consumers like to be able to buy online and in stores.  Stores this year are putting a lot of deals online and even more in store.  Second, consumers like to be able to buy from home.  Stores are having huge sales and giving out coupons online for in store sales.  Lastly, consumers like a good experience.  They will  buy more if they have a better experience.  Stores are now opening as early as 8 pm on Thanksgiving in order to make shopping easier for their customers and give them more time to.  Now people who have to work on Black Friday can shop on Thanksgiving. Overall, stores have changed for the better for consumers, and made it harder on their workers.

Letter Head

        Our latest project involved making a letter head and writing a letter to send out to local businesses.  We each pick ten businesses, send the letter out with a price list of our services, then hope they are interested.  I used my logo and a supporting graphic of one of my sharks to make the letter head.  I hope it sticks out, but also looks professional.  I enjoyed doing this project a lot and hope this gives me a better insight into working with others and perfecting my business skills.  This project has also taught me to send out a mass letter, which could come in handy in the future.