Documentary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f0GitIp3AU     Thats the link to my video.

                All I can really say about the project is that time is everything. I ran into multiple problems when creating my documentary, luckily I had allotted quite a bit of extra time to compensate for most of the hang ups. What can I say besides “best-laid plans of mice and men oft go astray.” I am very confident that my video could have been much better and I am not trying to blame any bad feedback on my hang ups, but with the hands dealt to me throughout the project this is the best I can do. I never really understood the difficulty of making a documentary now. I had a great idea for one in my head but day by day I realized how hard or long it would take me to get the shots I wanted or to edit those shots into the scenes I wanted. I assumed that a majority of my struggle to complete the documentary would get footage I realized rather quickly that the hardest part is editing and picking music out. My musical selection in my documentary is horrible the only song I could put on was the only song not deleted off my computer when I used virus scan to clean my computer after I got a virus from a YouTube to mp3 site. So all in all, I am a little disappointed with my documentary. It feels, for lack of better words, half ass and I am not too big a fan of that.

Proposal

My thesis is, are we really who we act like we are on Facebook?

My documentary is aimed at anyone who has a Facebook because anyone with a Facebook can be a victim of its Schrodinger like effects. I will be interviewing at least two people asking them about whom they are and why they post what they do on Facebook. My documentary will try to get people to understand that by using Facebook the way they might it paints an unfair picture of who they are. The location of my film will take place around campus, probably in the dorms and rooms of who I interview. My shooting schedule will most likely be very sporadic but still make sense and flow nicely. The time allotted for now seems sufficient but as I start filming it may take longer, we will have to wait and see. My audience should care because this effects them and everyone they know it may make people realize that Facebook is not real life and the only way to truly know someone is to get to know them offline. My documentary will be pieced in four parts: getting to know the people, getting to know their Facebook, what others think of both, conclusions from the findings. I plan on shooting this documentary in almost a “true life” style. My shots will be more or less like this: in the first part outside, in the second indoors, the third part outside and the conclusion in a mixture of both. I want to do this because by having the first part outside it shows a more social and open view of the person. Indoors for the second part shows the person secluded and closed off view of the person. The third part being shot outside brings the documentary back to seeing other people outside, saying that real people connect with you in person not secluded in your room. I think this will be the most effective way of getting my point across that we need to disconnect and find who we really are not who we think we ought to be on Facebook.

"Dark Days" Analysis

After watching the documentary “Dark Days” the one thing that captured me the most was how there was no narration throughout the whole video. No narrating made the whole documentary come off as one very long recording of these people’s lives. I think I liked it so much because it was the absolute bare minimum of what a documentary could be. There was no (noticeable) outside opinion shaping what the documentary was supposed to mean. What you got from it was what you got from it not what someone else wanted you to. One of the other things that captured my attention was the choice for black and white. I thought at first it was to show how bad their lives were living in the tunnels, but it did not make sense because at the end when they got the section 8 housing it was still black and white. I think the choice to have black and white was to strip the video again of anything but the story. It gave no specific directions on where your thoughts were supposed to go, just a direction towards the point of the whole thing. So if you look at the entire video the bareness of it actually drew you towards a very broad topic which is different from every documentary we have watched so far. Though the topic was broad it was not vague and actually very powerful. The bareness actually helped to make every person look exactly like one of us, except not living in a subway, it made them human which in turn made the graveness of their situation slap me in the face.

Link to Final Movie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7r1pwWz8a4

Videogames and Art

Videogames to an extent can be art. In the first article what was talked about was a “rock” stage. This rock stage was where the magic happened and where every other thing was shut out, so what is important could be focused on and turned into something amazing. This I believe is when videogames are art, it is when there are no people playing the game and you can just marvel at what was created for us. This is not true for any video game; games like “WACO” and “Grand Theft Auto” are not. Those games do not have any purpose, argue all you want about how they are expressions of what people feel but explain to me how the senseless murder and other bad things are art. If you were to say those are killing games so all killing games are bad you would be wrong, other games involving killing have purposes, reasons, and motives. When some video games are being created it is about the game and what the creators are trying to produce for the public. Most games up to this point should be considered art. When you add the players into the mix, you see that video games as art disappears. We play games and manipulate what was created and destroy the world that was painstakingly planned out and created. What is done in video games is not art and those who create the games know this, why else would after everything we do in videogames it all resets. Nothing is every permanently ruined in videogames, so what was created can be restored and brought back to its former beauty. Lastly there are videogames that are purely for destruction and have no purpose. Like the games I mentioned earlier and others like them. I would argue till the gas is turned off to anyone who believes games like those are art. As far as I am concerned people who think that those games are art more than likely believe that Christ’s image burnt on toast belongs next to the Mona Lisa.

 

Pictures for Video

This would be the first picture, because in the first sentence it talks about what i do when i first log onto facebook

 This picture would come up because i talk about how i am a rugby player.

 I picked this one as the picture showing my party side....because its the only one that would be

appropriate.

This picture of my cat will for the purpose of the video be Schrodinger's cat.

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The songs will go in this order: Gyorgy Ligeti - Requiem, Clint Mansell - Requiem For A Dream, And only the crescendo at the end of Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture for the conclusion.

I also plan on using paint or text boxes on youtubes editor to help explain the relevence of each picture.

I will have the other six photos by tomorrow evening because contrary to what others may think it is surprisingly hard to take pictures that you can relate to a somewhat difficult quantum mechanical theory.  If I could get any suggestions in class or as a comment I would be very grateful.

Tracks for Essay (with explenations)

Gyorgy Ligeti - Requiem 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1lcZM0MNek&list=FLn4c5eIAqDdUhnWZkZHgAXQ&index=17&feature=plpp_video

I chose this song because my essay starts off as a cautionary tale meant to cause despair and frighten people into becoming who they really are and not who they want to be....and nothing says despair like a song written by a holocaust survivor whose inspiration is the suffering he felt in Auschwitz.

Clint Mansell - Requiem For A Dream
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22ut_pzoWgY&feature=BFa&list=FLn4c5eIAqDdUhnWZkZHgAXQ

I chose this song because it is just one of those songs that can really build you up, in this case for my conclusion.

Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0cpKzDoOdA

I chose this song because it is such an awesome song to end anything, like in V for Vendetta.