What I learned

     As we started this class I found it very interesting and I was excited. When I found out that out work consisted on doing a blog... Well my fist response to this was not good, I was mad, I didn't understand why we had to do a blog. Later I found out that it was a group blog. So I was more calm. I didn't like the fact that we had to write every day on the blog and the fact that we had to post things. When we started working on the blog i found it interesting and cool, because we got to chose the topic and we chose something everyone in the group liked: TV series.

  As week went by and we had to work on the blog a learned a lot of things: first of all what a blog really is, how to add widgets, how to use the tools to make various task, how to subscribe and keep up to date with my subscription posts, how to use Google docs.,how to add privacy settings to my blog, how to use correctly images from Google and other sources, i also learned different ways of interactivity, use Google maps and so on.

     All of the things i mentioned above helped me improve my way of using the internet and also help develop my imagination because now I know a variety of different thing that can come in handy when ever I have the chance. It also helped me find new ways to search in the web like using key word. Most important, I learned to appreciate blogs :D

My Experience with Blogs

First of all, I never heard about thi site because in America this isn't that common like here in Spain/Europe, and if it wasn't because I had to work on blogs, I would never noticed the existance of this media. Working on blogs was really interesting, I realized that there is a new way of interaction trough them. The most important thing is that I learned how to create a blog and to used it, I also learned how to post a video from another web site, like youtube. Every week, the posts on the blog were supposed to be of different themes, but of the same subject, so each week, I learned new things, interested information, of the series my group and I, were specialized.

Interview Toni Longas- Announcer and host of television and radio programs

1. What brought you to your profession and at what age?
A/. The interactivity of my person and the audio-listener audience, simultaneously I got in television. I started when I was 17 years old.


2. Which your first experience and where?
A/. It was on a local radio, in the community where a used to lived back in, Bogota, Colombia.


3. Someone else in your family o any of your closest friends exercised this profession?
A/: No, I decided by my own that was my thing, and started to work.


4. There was someone who inspired you?
A/. In my childhood, I listened to narrated programs by huge announcers, and my dream was always to make my voice listened through the radio. Fortunately, with vocal exercises, I achieved success. 


5. What advice do you offer for those who are starting this profession?
A/. It's not about having a god voice, it's about studying and prepare a lot for each program. Of course, having a general education is essential. 


6. What has been one of your most pleasant experiences?
A/. One of my most pleasant experiences was the jump from radio to television, and having the opportunity of arriving at Honduras with program dedicated to culture in different aspects.

7. How are you inspired, what you need for it?
A/. For every job I realized, I choose a theme and from that theme, 4 or 5 sittuations that had to do with the theme, after that, I start to create histories in my mind that lead me to creativity. I need almost absolut silence, and the only thing that can interrump my silence is clasic music in the background.

8. How many years have you dedicated to this profession? What motivates you to keep on going with the same profession?
A/. I've been working as an announcer and host of television and radio programs for almost 45 years. The challenge a new experience every day is what makes me keep on going, every day I love more what I do.

9.  Whatis the most satisfying thing about you job?
A/. The most satisfyingthing in my job, is the applause of my audience, because that means that I'm doing well my job. The ethic, truth and professionalism forms part of my behaviour during my job.

Interview

Interview to Walter Krochmal

1. What inspired you to start acting?
It inspired me to be an actor because it is interesting to interpret someone and to perform in the theater, radio, television, video or motion pictures. Even though only a few become famous "stars".

2. How long have you being acting?
I being acting since I was around six in school and church plays where I played secondary rolls. Later on I did high school musical where I figured out I had a passion for it.

3. How did you decide it was Broadway and not TV that you loved doing?
I usually trained more acting on school or college programs. I even got called to be on a TV commercial but I rejected the offer since I felt it was out of my reach. I have always and will always love acting on plays. Its a decision I will never regret.

4. What plays have you done?
I have performed in Chicago, Rock of Ages, Wicked, Wonderland, Lion King, A Tribute to The Beatles, A Little Night Music, etc. 

5. What is the one thing that you love the most about your work?
Meeting new people, being able to share with other actors, having to dressed in interesting costumes, getting a leading role and most of all having an audience.

6. Is it hard for you to learn the lines?

No, because once you practice several time and get into the story it is very easy to be the character you must perform.

7. What is one of the hardest characters you had to play?
It is always hard to play characters specially when they are so different from our own personality. It is hard for me to play being a villain or a bad guy, because I mostly do the secondary parts, and when I get a leading role is always one of the bad guys, so the audience dislike me but I enjoyed it anyways.

8. Is it acting on Broadway different than acting on TV?
Yes, totally. On TV you are behind so many cameras while on stage you are directly in front of an audience.

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Catching up!

Makeovers

In this video you can see all of the makeovers the girls-models got for this season. Usually girls around the fourth or third episode  get to have a makeover that helps them improve their personality and embraces what they have. The makeovers are chosen by the producers and some expect that know what will help each unique girl look better. Some times the makeovers are not accepted by the girls making them depress and annoying.

Photo Preview

The video you just saw can summarize all of the contestants in the new cycle. Each girl if different and as they said ¨they might not be the pretty girls they usually appear or commercial but maybe high fashion¨. That is true because if you are a ANTM fan you can notice the difference between the girls of the new cycle and the girls from older cycles. The two persons in the video are also discussing each girl and the possibility of them winning and i think that neither of the ones they choose will we, that my personal opinion. I think that Ann has the greatest potential of them all.

Preview -New episode 

In the new episode the girls are put in a new challenge: make the COMMERCIAL!! One of the most hated part for the models because it´s easy for them to model ( do a photo shoot ) than to memorize the lines for a commercial. Some of the girls don´t have that ability and they don´t have the charisma and personality you have to bring on set.