Link to Movie

http://youtu.be/frm0NemSrKE

Works Cited

http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&sa=G&biw=1366&bih=600&tbm=isch&tbnid=quh7wxDcc9WzIM:&imgrefurl=http://www.sheknows.com/love-and-sex/articles/824685/relationship-rules-for-facebook&docid=Z344KTWOgo7pVM&imgurl=http://cdn.sheknows.com/articles/2011/03/facebook_heart.png&w=256&h=256&ei=vXuPUK6_DKnC0QGEjYFw&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=2&sig=118041852940583496692&page=1&tbnh=136&tbnw=132&start=0&ndsp=20&ved=1t:429,i:92&tx=568&ty=290

http://www.greenlights.org/blog/2011/03/31/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-twitter/i-love-twitter/

http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&biw=1517&bih=666&tbm=isch&tbnid=dUr3eF1JafO3iM:&imgrefurl=http://www.my-diary.org/&docid=NikMpFl_QPgiCM&imgurl=http://www.my-diary.org/images/toshbook7.jpg&w=399&h=240&ei=oXyPUKrfAfS_0QH16ICoBw&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=180&sig=118041852940583496692&page=1&tbnh=135&tbnw=250&start=0&ndsp=3&ved=1t:429,i:141&tx=184&ty=35

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOh3hNqiof4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0EF4nqhNHY

Dark days

This documentary “Dark Day” really connects to the audience and has a clear message. This showed a lot of detail. The characters show and talk about how they became homeless and their struggles through all of this. They talk about all they have been through and their struggles and hustles to make it and survive through the bad times during that part of their life. They all lived in a dark tunnel right near a train. This documentary shows them from the bottom and them trying to make it in life. They were barely surviving. Finally you see them happy when they each get an apartment of their own. They got an opportunity in life to live better. They started out on the bottom and worked their way up to the top.

The color through this whole documentary was black and white. These colors are dark, dull, plain and boring. These colors represent them living in a dark and dull and plain place with lives that were not exciting. The intense music during these frames shows the lives of these guys and how they just dragged. At the end the music is more happy because they get their own homes. They were not living exiting lives and color brings excitement. Black, white, and gray are not exciting and happy colors. This is why this goes with the shots in this documentary. They were showing their ways to the camera and their everyday struggles. Just being themselves.

The guy talks about how he ended up living the way he did. He says how he was scared at first then realized that no one goes into tunnels anyway because they are scared of what is down there so he somewhat felt like no one was going to mess with them even though they had to deal with the rats. He talks about how leaving in the tunnel he didn't have to worry about things you would have to worry about if he was living in an apartment. He didn't have to worry about paying bills and could basically do whatever he wanted and didn't have to worry about anything. He liked living like this.

After living like this for years the end shows them tearing up and destroying their place in by the tracks. They are moving on to a better life and going to have their own homes. The moods in the documentary change. They are living better and happier lives and never want to go back to the homeless life again.

Just like the other documentaries that we have watched in class, this one leaves you wondering what happens next in their lives. This one leaves me wondering if they continue to be happy with the changes in their lives. It is different because of the tone and mood. This one is black and white throughout the whole thing.

Three ideas

1. How Facebook shows a documentary through your life.
2. How Twitter is like the news.
3. How Twitter is used as a public diary.

Movie

Video Games

I never thought of video games as being art. But now that I think about it I guess you can put it under the category of art. The images, characters, shapes and the actions going on can be described as art. I use to play video games like Mario Kart and Grand Theft Auto. These games did have forms of art.

I never thought of video games having a storyline either. I always saw them as something to do for entertainment and for fun. Nothing you really have to do hard thinking about. It’s just something that people do to relax.

Thinking back on games that I have played, some of them didn’t actually have a storyline. I played games like Mario Kart a lot, Grand Theft Auto, and Mortal Kombat. They were just racing, killing and fighting. There wasn’t a story to these games. Just to play for the fun of it.

There are other games that told stories. Learning games that I would play when I was younger. I think they did tell better stories then literature because it is easier to remember and understand. Some things that you may learn from a book may be boring and may find yourself less interested in it. In the game it may be easier to understand.

Depending on the game I do think that video games can tell stories better than literature. But in other games there are no storylines. All games do not have storylines but all games are considered art.

Storyboard

I chose this picture because in the beginning i use the metaphore of how twitter is a diary.

I use this one becausse I talk about Twitter

I talk about facebook in the second parapgraph



I use this one because I talk about meeting my boyfriend on facebook



This one goes with the second paragraph

second paragrapgh

second paragraph

I chose this picture when I talk about meeting friends on twitter

this goes with the third paragraph when I talk about frends

third paragraph

third paragraph

The first song that is going to be played is Sure Thing by Miguel. The second song that is going to be played is Right By Your Side by Nicki Minaj and Chris Brown.

Music Tracks

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0EF4nqhNHY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOh3hNqiof4
The two songs I chose was Sure Thing by Miguel and Right by Your Side by Nicki Minaj and Chris Brown. The first song relates to the begining when im talkin about meeting my bf on facebook. The second song relates to the last part of the essay when I talked about meeting friends from UK on Twitter. I'm using this song as if I was saying I couldn't live without Twitter.

Screen shots of music video



Intro of the video. Shows them as a couple and talks about how they met.




Shows them as a very close and loving family.




She gets a call about her having to leave for deployment.




Says bye to her husband and daughter as she leaves for deployment.




She is talking to her family over webcam.




Fighting in the war.



Trey taking care of the his daughter while his wife is away.

Hard for him to sleep when she is not there with him on her side of the bed.

The soliders come to the house to tell him that she died in the war.



He is sad about the news that his wife is no longer coming back.




The message in this video.



Music Video Analysis

The video I chose was “Your Side of the Bed” by Trey Songz. I heard the song before I saw the music video. When I heard the song I assumed it was about his girlfriend or wife leaving him or walked out on him and he didn’t know if she was coming back or leaving him for good. The title of the song your side of the bed is saying that when she is not there at night, her side of the bed is very lonely and he can’t sleep when she is not laying there with him. When I watched the video I realized that I was wrong. The video is very emotional. His wife in this video is a soldier in the United States Army. When she has orders to be deployed and has to go overseas for the war, both of them are very upset. He is saying that when she is not there on her side of the bed he is lonely and can’t sleep because he stays up worrying about her and he misses her. In the song he says he doesn’t know if she is gone for good or returning in the morning. By just listening to the song I thought he meant he doesn’t know if she was going to come back to him. When I watched the video he is saying that he doesn’t know if she will return home from war or be gone for good. This video is emotional because it shows her in Iraq and them communicating over webcam with their baby girl. Then it shows her at war. The next scene it shows soldiers coming to his house with the American Flag to tell him that she has died in the war. Then it shows him crying while holding their daughter. This video is very emotional and you can feel his emotions in this. I think the message in this whole video was to support our troops. They sacrifice their life to fight for our country. I can somewhat relate to this because my dad is in the Army. Some people may not realize how important they are and how families are really affected by this and how much they worry every time they have to leave for deployment.

TIB rough draft

Twitter is a diary. Facebook is similar to this as well. Social media is that mutual friend that gets you acquainted.  I didn’t think about it like that before. On these sites I easily talk to people that I do not know. I believe in Social Networks and how it makes communication easier and how it lets you come out of your shell to say things that you normally wouldn’t say in person.

Both of these sites made it easy for me to talk to people. I am a quiet person so talking to new people can be difficult. Two years ago I met my boyfriend in this driving class. He added me on Facebook that same week. Every time he seen that I was online he instant messaged me. We went to different high schools so we barely seen each other unless we made plans to meet up or accidently ran into each other at Wal-Mart. Me and him would chat on Facebook about five times a week for a little over a month. After that we started to hang out and been doing good ever since. It wasn’t awkward to talk to him when I hung out with him for the first time because I felt like I knew him pretty well since we talked so much online. Therefore I was comfortable.

 Making friends can take me a while.  Before I came to college, I met a lot of people on Twitter that were in the same boat as me. I was going to be a freshman at the University of Kentucky and wasn’t going to know a lot of people. I had this is in common with plenty of the people that I met on Twitter this past summer. During the summer I talked to a lot of them and can relate to plenty of their tweets. I would start a conversation with them and they would start a conversation with me. We built a bond over this site so when I got to campus I met a lot of them in person so I already had friends when I arrived to college. The first weeks arriving on campus it was helpful knowing people that I can hang out with and have things in common with.

Social Networks act as that mutual friend that gets you acquainted. Twitter and Facebook makes it easy to talk to people especially the ones that I don’t know very well. I probably wouldn’t have known the people I do know now if it wasn't for these sites. These haven’t been just a social network to me, but my life.

This I Believe draft

Twitter is a life’s daily timeline. Twitter is a diary. Twitter is a combination of both of these. Twitter shows news and events.  I didn’t think about it like that before. But I record my daily life on this media. I record my journey in everyday’s activities. I record my personal feelings that I do not mind sharing to the public or my followers. I am informed with events going on around me. I believe in Twitter and how I can easily express myself.  Tweets are an addiction.

 A few years ago I had a completely different opinion. I created a Twitter account when I was in the 9^th grade which was in 2009. I thought it was pointless so I never got on it. I didn’t get it so I didn’t put it to use.  My opinion completely changed years later when I began to use Twitter on the regular basis at the beginning of my senior year last year in 2011. I saw it as enjoyment and entertainment.  

I believe Twitter makes is easy to talk to people. I am a quiet person so talking to new people can be difficult. Making friends can take a while.  Before I came to college, I met a lot of people on here that were in the same boat as me. I was going to be a freshman at the University of Kentucky and wasn’t going to know a lot of people. I had this is in common with plenty of the people that I met on Twitter this past summer. During the summer I talked to a lot of them and can relate to plenty of their tweets. I would start a conversation with them and they would start a conversation with me. We built a bond over this site so when I got to campus I met a lot of them in person so I already had friends when I arrived to college.

I believe Twitter is helpful. I am always informed about what is happening around me. I tweet daily and I read tweets daily. When I want to know something I tweet about it and I get answers. Events going on around campus I am informed. The first weeks arriving on campus it was helpful knowing people that I can hang out with and have things in common with. I posted tweets about when was the game or when is this party and was instantly informed. I can easily creep on people and contact anyone with no problem especially if I don’t have their phone number. I am usually nosey and enjoy creeping and reading about drama and gossip. Things like this flood my Timeline. I use this site as my public diary. I tweet my feelings that I am unable to say. I can be myself and say whatever I want because my parents or older family members don’t use Twitter. Well for now that is.

I believe that twitter is a life’s daily timeline and dairy. If anyone were to scroll through my tweets and my timeline they would see what I do in my everyday life. My feelings are recorded and how I spent my night. I believe Twitter makes it easy to talk to people because I probably wouldn’t have known the people I do now. Twitter hasn’t been just a social network to me, but my life.

TIB that didn't interest me

The “This I Believe” essay I listened to was called “Never Give Up” by Mary Curran Hackett. She was talking about every since she was young her father always givin her and her siblings lectures on life and how to achieve to be the best. He started these lectures when she was only five years old. In sports, if she were to miss a free throw or got three strikes, her father would lecture about that. This is something she went through her whole life. Her father would also tell her to never give up on anything. Only the strongest survive. She felt like no matter how hard she worked or how hard she tried he was always giving her and her siblings lectures. He would always say if you give up you will never win and someone else would take over. She didn’t care too much for the lectures. She got pregnant young and was living alone and was about to be a single mother. She called her dad saying that she has givin up. She felt like she disappointed him and couldn’t look at him in the face when they packed up the apartment and drove back home. She then realized her father never gave up on her so now she wasn’t going to start giving up on herself. She suffered through the struggle of having to raise a child on her own and working and not having a lot of money. Every day she heard her father’s voice in her head and realized that she will never give up. I wasn’t interested in this story when I first started listing to it. It didn’t seem like anything that I could relate to. As I got closer to the end of the story I began to like it. I didn’t know it was going to end the way it did. It sounded to me that her father was strict and that didn’t interest me to listen or read this story. It was a good story in my opinion. She realized in the end her father’s words meant so much when she needed him the most.

TIB Becoming a Parent Is a Gift

Becoming a Parent Is a Gift is the “This I Believe” essay that I just listened to. Chris Huntington is the author of this essay. He and his wife wanted a child so bad but they were unable to have one. This made both of them very depressed because they really wanted a child of their own. Since they couldn’t have a child the old fashioned way, they decided to consider adoption. He believed that a family doesn’t always have to be traditional. His child doesn’t have to look like him but he wants to be a father. He and his wife adopted a Chinese girl. He wanted to give this girl a family and open up their home to her since her parents didn’t want her. This wasn’t the only reason. He wanted to be a father. It brought joy to him to know that he will be raising a baby girl. He was giving her a home and she was giving them a family. It wasn’t important to him anymore that she won’t look anything like them, but she would call him dad and be in a loving home. He grew up knowing about traditional family but considered adoption when he and his wife were unable to have their own children. I really like this essay. As I was listening to the essay, I felt his pain and sadness. I could tell that this was very personal to him. I can feel the emotion in his voice as he was telling the story. I enjoyed listening to Chris tell his story. It was interesting and I felt their pain when he was talking about how upset they were seeing other people with their children or other women pregnant so they decided to stop going to parks. Even though I can’t relate to this story from personal experience I felt the hurt in his voice when listening to this. I felt the joy when he adopted a baby girl and realized that he can finally be a father that he had wanted to be for so long and he can have the family he always wanted.