I am finally done with final product!!!!!! I honestly didn't think I would be this prepared at this date and time with everything but what a relief it is! 

This week I am just finishing up on final touches for my actual presentation next week so my stress level is much lower than others. I am very pleased with how my years work has turned out and its crazy to think I'm literally about to cross the finish line with it all. Feels like yesterday I was struggling to find my first interview. I am very pleased with how far I have come especially with just the confidences level I have gained with interviewing and talking to professionals. 

I am excited to share how everything turns out soon!

This past week was great!!! I finally decided exactly where on what direction I wanted to take for my commercials and what a relief it is! I presented it to my mentor with nothing but positive feedback from him. He also gave me some more ideas on details concerning my product that were very helpful. I just feel so prepared for my final presentation and honestly it's all do to my mentor. At the beginning of all this I had to create a timeline along with my product proposal, I had to give my mentor a copy of it and he has really made sure I've stuck to it. So many other students I know of have barely even started and though I know theirs will come out good Im sure the stress might be running high. By taking this project a little further each week I am able to stress on the little things thankfully. I'm ecstatic for final presentation night to finally come! This year in ISM has really been fun but at the same time a lot of work.
This week I am fixing the parts of my rough draft that need to be touched on as well as adding the detail my mentor and I discussed last week. Will update next week! :)

This past week I presented what I have thus far along with the parts of my final speech I already have as well. It came out to be over 30 minutes long which is right on schedule of where I need to be at! I was also one of the first to go so I felt even better about it all knowing that I am prepared and on the right track.
Unfortunately I was not able to meet with my mentor visit but it will not hurt my schedule on my final product time line luckily. There are a couple weeks on my timeline in which I am just doing a little more reflecting on my previous work so I can't get too far behind.
This week I will be presenting my rough draft to my mentor and start editing it! I am so excited to be getting closer and closer to my final piece of work!!

This past week was AWESOME! I had the opportunity to not only meet with my mentor but also his right hand man when it comes to commercials. I was able to share with him my ideas and get some great feedback! I am growing very confident in my final project the more I work on it and learn. This week I am working on my rough draft and so I am constantly thinking about exactly where I want this commercial to be heading. I know I will come up with something I am proud of at the end of the day no matter which direction I move. Not only will I be presenting my rough draft to my mentor but also my teacher. I have been talking to my teacher daily of how excited I am and the amount of progress I have made so finally letting her catch a glimpse will be fun!

Everything is coming to an end so fast!!!

This past week I started to develop my ideas for my final product. Due to all the research I have done I have feel I have come up with useful and logic ideas. My final project is very similar to my Original Work and actually where I got the idea of it all.  In my Original Work I only came up with an idea for a football commercial. Now I not only have a football commercial but also both mens and women's basketball. It is cool to see how much different my vision is from my original to my final work! I didn't go into my original work analyzing and watching past commercials of multiple conferences multiple times. My goal for my final is to impress my mentor so much some ideas of for the real commercials come from me.

I really think I am on the right track with my final product and am looking forward on continuing it.

What a busy last few weeks I have had and it is only going to get busier from here! Last week I conducted an analysis over the other four major conferences and their use of commercials in the last five years.

This research was actually fairly difficult.  Finding these commercials was the hardest part. I ended up only finding less than 10 too. The ones I did find were pretty helpful and I think I have a good understanding of things to complete my final project. Every conference had their own unique style and it was obvious. So many factors go into these commercials but the biggest is money and that was also obvious.

This week I am brainstorming multiple ideas on how I want to approach my final project and I already have a few directions I can go with it all. I also have my ISM Portfolio check this week so I will be busy putting that all together too.

Write ya later!

This past week was great and eventful! I worked on gathering information on the past five years of Big 12 commercials for football, mens basketball, and women's basketball. It wasn't too too difficult to find the commercials. I was able to gather everyone I needed and fully analyze them. I pointed out key words and images used throughout them all as well as what I felt was received better from the audience than other things.

I was also given feedback on my press release in which I will create another draft for. Along with working on my press release I will be conducting more analysis on the other major 4 conferences and their commercials through the years. Researching the other conferences might be a little more difficult due to the fact they all have their own networks so the use of youtube and other interment outlets might not be crucial.

Will keep you updated on my progress in working on my final product!