A is for Advertisments

Sitting on the couch, waiting and waiting until the clock ticks 9 PM because this is when GLEE is on. What is GLEE? GLEE is a TV show has a glee club at their high school. A GLEE club is an organized club that sings songs. I know people that watch GLEE so much that they tape every episode and watch it over and over. But if they love it so much they buy the show on DVD.

Every TV show that is playing on TV has to have some breaks during the show this is called advertisements or more commonly today we hear commercials. Most commercials are just persuading people that the product is good, like Sham Wow, Slap Chop etc. Some advertisements can be very annoying or they can even be funny.

I think the best advertisements/commercials are the ones that are on during the Super Bowl. Super Bowl advertisements are probably the best because the companies know that there a millions of people watching the Super Bowl, so they spend a lot of money to make good advertisements. But, just recently they blocked out all of the US advertisements in Canada because the people in Canada that have the rights to broadcast eh Super Bowl are not paid by the American companies to play the American ads. So all that the Canadians get to see are the Canadian advertisements. If you wanted to see the American ads you would have to go to youtube to watch them.

My family owns a Home Hardware in Canada. My Dad and I went to this market thing where all the Home Hardware owners go and meet all the other Home Hardware owners and also the companies that sell their stuff to Home Hardware. Well, during the market time my Dad had to do a commercial for Home Hardware. To make this advertisement my Dad had to stand in front of a green screen saying what he was going to say in the commercial. Later, they put the background picture in where the green screen was. I remember sitting down and listening to what he was saying and what the directors were saying. It took awhile because the directors were saying do it again. When I finally saw the commercial on TV (during the Super Bowl!) my Dad was magically standing in front of a pile of lumber! There is a commercial on CTV right now where you can see my Dad. You have to be paying attention though because he is not on there long and he is the first guy that talks in the commercial.

To conclude my advertisement post, I just wanted to say that it is important to advertise your products well because if you don’t advertise them you don’t have a business. Also people won’t know what your product is, so they won’t buy it if you don’t advertise.

Life Lesson: “The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.” Derby Brown

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S is for Songs

Imagine listening to this song:

Hey, hey, hey

Your lipstick stains on the front lobe of my left side brain

I knew I wouldn't forget ya, and so I went and let you blow my mind

And we do

Well by now I've showed you how much I believe in the here and now I wish

That you knew

lyrics from: www.lyrics.com

If you would like to hear the whole song of Hey Soul Sister by Train click here

You just saw the first verse of one of my favourite songs. Some of my other favourite songs are Vanilla Twilight by Owl City, Break Your Heart by Taio Cruz, Wavin' Flag by Young Artist for Haiti, Celebrity Status by Marianas Trench, Never Too Late by Hedley and so many more.

Every year at my camp (talked about camp in earlier post) the counsellors do a circle song for each circle. This year, the song that the counsellors taught us was to the tune of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" but the words were changed to be in a Harry Potter themd. Here are the words to this Harry Potter version:

Is this the real life?

Is this just fantasy?

Here at Tawingo, Escape from reality

Open your eyes

Look out to the camp and see,

I’, just a Seneca

Learning my wizardry

Because we’re Gryffindor, Ravenclaw,

Huffelepuff, Slytherin,

Put me where the hat sorts

Doesn’t really matter to me, to me.

Dobby, just marked me glum

Gotta try harder today

Mop the floors and sweep away

Dobby, we had just begun

And now we’ve gone and thrown it all away

Dobby, ooh

Didn’t mean to make you cry

If we’re not clean by 9:15 tomorrow,

Carry on, carry on , it really does matter

Today, our time had come

We’re leaving on our trip

Pretty please don’t lilly dip

Goodbye, everybody

We’ve got to go

Gotta leave you all behind and trip it through

Island of Rock

I don’t want to leave

Sometimes wish trip never did end at all

I see Voldomort coming through the door

Run away run away, Harry’s just a baby

Thunderbolts and lightning, very, very, frightening me

All girls (all girls), native day, (native day), skit night and musical

Ohh Musicalllll

Harry’s just a wizard from a muggle family

So as I showed you above that song was the song that we sang mostly everyday until we knew it off by heart. We would sing this song 4 times a day or more, it got so annoying after a really long time.

Back to the regular songs that you hear today. Somedays when I am in the car with my mom and my sister. A song comes on the radio and my mom starts singing along with the song. I said "Mom how do you know that song?" and she will say " Well, this used to be a old song, someone just wrote it again!" I am like "Ok?!?!" Usually she can name the year and things that she was doing back then. I wonder if the same will happen with me or you?

Yes, as I said that I heard a song on the radio. Songs can be played almost anywhere like radio, TV, iPod, Concerts and more. Songs can have different genres like Childrens, Pop, Country, Rock, Blues, Jazz, Musicals, R&B, Rap, Hip-Hop, Classical and more. My personal favourite genres of music are Pop and a little bit of Country.

Overall, songs can be very different from others and they can be made up by anyone. You can even write your own song if you wanted to! There are tons of songs to listen to and surely you can find something that you like to listen to. Everyday there are new songs coming out. Maybe one day you can make a song and become an artist.

Life Lesson: Don't be afraid to put your songs out in to the world, maybe you could be famous one day.

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