Friday, December 12, 2008

Alternative Broadcast Magazine Project on Vos Yeux Salon

Broadcast on Vos Yeux Salon

            (ANCHOR ON CAM)

THE NEWEST NAME IN THE COSMETIC INDUSTRY IS VOS YEUX SALON. WE ARE HERE TO TEL YOU WHY YOU SHOULD TAKE A LOOK FOR THIS HOLIDAY SEASON. NEWWSCHANNEL 2’S HARRIET MUMFORD IS SITTING WITH THE OWNER RIGHT NOW.

(HARRIET/VO)

THANK YOU, BOB, I AM SITTING HER WITH SARAH GRIMM THE YOUNG OWNER OF THIS ADORABLE BOUTIQUE. SARAH WHY DID YOU GET INTO THIS BUSINESS?

             (GRIMM)

“WELL I WAS ALWAYS BEING ASKED TO DO FRIENDS MAKUP FOR WEDDINGS AND SPECIAL OCCASIONS AND I THOUGHT TO MYSELF WHY ONLY CATER TO MY FRIENDS?”

            (HARRIET/VO)

INTERESTING AND SO YOU STARTED YOUR BOUTIQUE. DO YOU USE ALL KINDS OF MAKEUP OR DO YOU HAVE A SPECIFIC BRAND YOU PREFER?

            (GRIMM)

“MY PREFERRED BRAND IS BARE ESCENTUALS BUT I DEFINATLY USE WHAT MY CLIENTS WANT AND ALSO WHAT WILL DO THE BEST JOB FOR THE REQUIRED LOOK.”

            (HARRIET, LIVE IN STUDIO)

AS YOU SAW THIS IS AN ADORABLE LITTLE BOUTIQUE THAT IS WELCOMING TO ALL AGES. THIS IS A GREAT GIFT IDEA FOR ALL OF THOSE LADIES ON YOUR LIST.

Fast Facts Box

Who: Vos Yeux Salon

What: A new salon just for makeup lovers

When: Founded in August 2008

Where: Morgan Hill, CA

Why: This salon provides affordable makeovers

           for the entire community and friendly service.

 

Fast Facts Box

Who: Vos Yeux Salon

What: A new salon just for makeup lovers

When: Founded in August 2008

Where: Morgan Hill, CA

Why: This salon provides affordable makeovers

           for the entire community and friendly service.

 

Magazine Review

 Vos Yeux Salon is the newest name in the cosmetics industry.  It is a fun energetic salon started by newcomer Sarah Grimm. Unlike the conventional hair salon, this salon caters to your makeup needs entirely. Although there is no new line to introduce the knowledge and the fun atmosphere is worth the experience.

Grimm, unlike her name, is a bubbly newly married twenty two year old.  When you walked into her salon she is the first to greet you with a huge smile. She was tired of going to the mall to get her makeup done and having the sales associates put on too much makeup or they did not give her colors that matched her skin tone.  She always left feeling as if she looked like a clown or worse oily! She was tired of paying the eighty dollars that it would take to schedule an appointment. She started wearing makeup when she was 16 years old and had fallen in love since that point. She loved to experiment with the colors and different products. Over the next six years many friends and family members encouraged her to pursue her talent. She dismissed the suggestions and started college at San Jose State University pursuing a Public Relations degree. In the summer of 2008 she finally decided to start her own business, doing people’s makeup. She had already done a few weddings in the past couple of years, including her own. So she started a website, made fliers, and printed up business cards.  It started out slow but as the months flew by and word of mouth started to get her business going she was building her clientele.

She eventually had to buy a space to set up her salon, and since then her business has started to boom. But it is not only because she does such a beautiful job on her client’s makeup, she has this captivating personality. You cannot help but like her.

When you walk into her salon she will greet you and bring you over to a huge station. This is where she keeps all of her makeup and brushes. There is every kind of makeup from MAC to Dior. She lets the client tell her what kind of event she is going to or if it is just a new look that the client is looking for. She will then ask you the colors of your outfit, once she knows she will start picking out the makeup that she thinks will compliment the client and also make her outfit complete. As she puts on the makeup she explains every step to the client.

Sarah Grimm has it all, the charm, and the level of customer service that is expected from a well-respected salon, and it is at an affordable rate. If you need a new look or just have a special event make you way over to Vos Yeux Salon. You will not be disappointed in the services that are provided.

 

Monday, December 1, 2008

Online Writing Exercise

Fox News
a) Do the news items reflect immediacy? yes
b) Does the site try to help readers save time? yes 
c) Is it quick and easy to get information? yes
d) Does it provide both visual and verbal information? yes
e) Do the stories contain lists and bullets to make them easier to scan? yes
f) Are the stories broken into “chunks”? yes
g) Do stories provide hyperlinks to additional information? yes 
h) Are there opportunities for readers to "talk back"? yes
i) Does the site use multimedia to enhance understanding and add appeal? yes

Alternative Broadcast Project-Radio-Revised

ANCHOR:A FIRE IN SAN JOSE LEFT A MAN IN GRAVE CONDITION. LUKE BILLINGS IS LIVE AT THE SCENE AND JOINS US WITH THE LATEST UPDATE.
BILLINGS: THANK YOU SARAH, IT IS A SAD SCENE HERE TODAY AT ROBERT KENTS HOME. A FIRE STARTED IN THE KITCHEN AND QUICKLY SPREAD TO THE ATTIC, LEAVING KENT WITH SECOND AND THIRD DEGREE BURNS ALL OVER HIS BODY. THE FIREFIGHTERS WHO RESCUED HIM, UNCONSCIOUS,  SENT HIM TO VALLEY MEDICAL HOSPITAL.   THERE IS STILL BLACK SMOKE ENCOMPASSING THE ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD, NO OTHER PERSON OR HOME WAS EFFECTED BY THE FIRE. THE CAUSE OF THE FIRE WILL BE PUT UNDER INVESTIGATION. REPORTING LIVE IN SAN JOSE, LUKE BILLINGS, NEWS RADIO 820 AASP.

Topical Blog Post #2-Revised

Protestors circled the SJSU campus on trying to make their voices heard in the matter of the budget cuts.
In the Spartan Daily there was an article on the budget cuts that are happening to all CSU’s. “Protesters take stand on budget cuts that leave CSU with nothing left on its plate”.Although I do agree that there has been a noticeable decrease in the amount of sections and different time periods for the classes I believe that there is still enough money to keep running a school. We have not been left with nothing on our plates! It is still hard to get classes but our state has a lot of debt and if cutting the school budgets is being cut then the students and administration should learn to work with it. A school is supposed to teach us how to deal with real life well this is real life. Budgets will be cut, programs will be cut, and people will be fired. It is not fair but that is the world. The economy is not at its peak and because of that there will be certain fields that suffer, in reality all fields will suffer because of the economy. Again it would not be fair if the schools were the only institution that was not affected. I believe that the budget cuts will show the CSU’s who really wants to graduate and which students really want to do well in the system

Find that Lead-Revised

Spartan Daily-"Health and Wellness event ask students to consider a better breakfast than cereal" As students walked near the barbecue area on Paseo de Cesar Chavez on Wednesday morning, life-size walking mascots of a carrot, a bannana and a carton of milk asked them, "Have you had breakfast yet?"
This article started out with a Scene-Setter lead
Spartan Daily-"SJSU students' food and dance show some Pacific Island pride"
In one week's worth of participation in the Pride of the Pacific Islands club, one can learn the hula, the haka and how to make origami. This article started out with a roundup lead.

Personal Meditations #4

Black Friday, Crowds, Pushing, Shoving; all of these words can be used to describe Holiday Shopping. I have never personally been shopping on Black Friday, yet, this year my family like countless others are strapped for cash. Therefore, I braved the crowds this year, it was insane. I am the person that would rather do my shopping earlier than deal with the crowds. I saw women fighting over a t-shirt they both wanted (on clearance), people were waiting in line not to pay but to just get into a store! It is amazing to me that the Christmas spirit is more about gifts in todays society that spending a day with loved ones. I miss the simplicity of making a gift rather than buying one, and the recipient being overjoyed with the gift. I think that our country needs to go back to simplicity in every aspect of our culture. Spend time with our family, bake with your mom, play football with the guys, just enjoy what has already been given to you.

Personal Meditations #3

Walking down the aisle on the arm of my father I  saw him looking at me and I started to cry. I loved him so much. Now I was going to proclaim that love for him in front of two hundred people. At that moment I understood the predestination of God. Everything that had happened in the last year had lead to this moment. The moment were I became a wife. I believe I was crying because I knew if one thing had been changed in that past year then I wouldn't be there. I believed that the man I married was different from the other men that I had met before. Yet, there were many complications. We came from completely different families, had completely different beliefs and world views. Yet, we both changed for each other and today even though we still have to work through some issues we are happier than we ever were. If you love someone do not give them up. Fight for what you love because if that person makes you happy then that should be enough. The good times should carry you through the hard times. Have faith in love.

Personal Meditations-Revised

Driving down the highway on a clear sunny day I was not paying attention when I noticed a tire in the road. I swerved onto the shoulder and started to lose control on the loose gravel. I swerved back into the four lanes of traffic almost being hit head on by an 18-wheeler truck. The next thing I knew I was in the air looking at the ground underneath my car. When the dust settled from the crash I realized that I was upside down with my ponytail stuck underneath my car. The sunroof had been open. Men froma construction site came and lifted the car off of me. I had a 6 inch gash in my head that went down to the bone. I should have died several ways in that crash. As a little girl I only lost one person I loved, my great-grandmother, and yet I never realized how short life was. As I enter into my mid-twenties I see death and sickness all around me. Parents have cancer, heart attack, seizures and yet the sickness and death do not stop at the old. Their are children with bone cancer and leukemia. I was in two nearly fatal car accidents within a year of each other between the age of 17 and 18. It is amazing to think of how many things I have done in my life that God has saved me from. I always thought that life was such a happy wonderful thing to live, how niave youth is. Now that I am older I realize that life has happy moments and a person needs to cherish those moments in the times of sadness. Because those happy moments and God are the only thing that will get you through the sadness of this world. The brevity of life is something to wonder at.