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Brainstorming For Video

Evolving of friendships

Living life full out

Friends to the end

I think that I may do my next video on friendship and how friendship evolves. BUT Im not quite sure yet how this may be possible since it is such a abstract idea. I think that maybe I could show some people that I know who have been friends for years. Now that I think about it, over break I could possible follow my mom around and see how the many friendships she has evolved over the years.  My mom has so many friends that I swear we can hardly go anywhere without someone saying Dawn is that you or someone yelling out Dawnie. This being so, she does have friends that she grew up with that she still spends time with and friends that she has known since grammar school.  My mom works a lot now so she doesnt see them as much but she keeps in touch using all our family minutes every month.  Usually over holiday breaks, we see and visit all her close friends or they come to my grandma's house to visit. 

This I Believe Edited

It was a regular Friday, well as regular as Friday the 13th's get, night my senior year of high school.  We had a big football game that night against our "rival" team.  Nonetheless, we were all friends so we all went out to Buffalo Wild Wings that night.  It was at least 30 of us and we were all just having fun, eating, and taking pictures.  It got to be around midnight and  knowing that my bestfriend, Seonnee, had a curfew I reminded her that it was probably time to find her friend and go home.  About 10 or 15 minutes later, we were done so we were walking to the car and we saw Seonnee arguing with her friend telling her to come on they had to go.  They left literally 5 minutes before us.  What happened next, I will never forget. 

I had just got home and Seonnee sister called me to ask me if I knew Briana's, Seonnee's friend, number.  This immediately seemed weird since her sister was away at school, but I just said no, but they should be home soon. They left right before me. Next thing I know, another friend was calling me saying that Seonnee had been in a real bad car accident. She had hit by a drunk driver only about 5 blocks from my house and thrown out the car.   They didn't know if she would be alright. She was being rushed to St. James hospital.  The next few minutes are still a blur to me. I had known Seonnee since I was 2 years old.  All I know is I ran up the steps to wake up and tell my mom.  She told me to put my clothes on so we could go because I wasn't driving and she would call Seonnee's mom.  First she took me to the accident spot and until this day I don't know why but I was crying at this point and couldn't form the words to ask. 

When we finally arrived at the hospital, everyone was there.  All of our friends were sitting by each other, her mom was sitting by herself, going crazy, and then the rest of her family. Briana's friends and family were also there.  The waiting room was packed but I chose not to sit by anybody.  I am not usually a person that cries, but I could not bear what was going on so I just had to be by myself.  People came by to check on me, including my and Seonnee's mom, but I never moved.  It felt as if time was moving so slow that night, but as people had to start going home around 4  and 5, I stayed. I couldn't go without seeing Seonnee. Though the time was moving slow, it had become 6 am without me noticing because I couldn't go to sleep. When she was able to see people before surgery, her mom said she wanted me and I went in.  It was so hard to see her in that much pain, she had broke her leg in 3 places, her hip and had infinite scratches and bruises. Nonetheless I was glad she was alright, well at least alive.  

That was night that I found that friendship is something should cherished and never taken advantage of, and never to get behind the wheel of a car under the influence. 

Beliefs

Family First

Blood is Thicker Than Water

Kids Grow up Fast

Both cats and dogs are bad

Home is where the heart is

Friendship is the Key to Life

Life is What you Make It

Money Makes the World Go round

Sleep is the Cousin to Death

Greed is the root of all evil

2.  Family First

This idea formed when I was about a sophmore in High School and my grandfather passed.  Though this made me maintain my belief much more, I always put my family first because thats what is in my heart to do. 

I firmly believe in this statement. There is no changing my thoughts on it. I try my best to make decisions everyday with the statement in mind. 

I maintain this belief because I believe it helps me to have my priorities in line. 

There is nothing that would make me change my belief.

 

Greed is the Root of all evil

This idea formed in my head just recently when a lot of my friends started become very greedy and bad situations kept presenting themselves to the friends.

I wouldnt say that I am firmly stuck on this belief, but at this moment in my life this is something I am finding to be true. 

I maintain this because I have seen the bad attitudes, the "2 faces", and even the revenge that occurs when people get too greedy. 

If I saw enough of greedy people in different circumstances such as giving some of their things back to less fortunate, which in turn would actually not make them greedy, or having a loving attitude then I guess I might change my point of view. 

Friendship is the Key to Life 

This idea formed when I was younger. I have always been that girl that pretty much everybody liked because Im the type of person who will not lie to you and I make sure people know that from beginning. Nonetheless, as I got older this belief got reiterated time and time again when my friends got hurt or passed. 

This belief came from my mom telling me to always be a good friend because it will come back to you.

I maintain this belief because not only my best friends tell me on a regular that I am a good friend. 

Once again, there is nothing that will make me change my belief!!!!

Questions

I think that are argument can be proposed by anything that proposes a point of view since another person can have a different point of view. 

1. The "leather" cover is neither embossed or leather

2. Not a point of view

3.Not a point of view

4. What makes it the best selling artist

5.  Why is it a warning

6.  How is it belated

7. What is nutrition?

8. What is science fiction?

9. How is it a shirt lapel

10. No point of view

2.  Being that I am in college and language is our basic  means of communication, I use language everyday to inform, convince, explore, make decisions, and to pray.  I think that language is our best tool in life for all these facets. 

4. USDA- nutritious food made from the ground

NIKE- Good shoes made for little money

GOLDEN ARCHES- an unhealthy food chain with clean bathrooms

SEAN JEAN- refinement and Making the Band 4 

Presentation and Distribution

The most important strengths of my project were the dancing transitions and the sound overlay. It is my belief that the sound overlaying the dancing helped to enhance my video. I think that the footage that I got of the team dancing assited my video in its visual appearance. It allowed it to be a break in the video from just seeing Aramie's face to actually seeing what he was actually talking about in his interview. These breaks that I have included, as transitions, are the team dancing. I thought, and after hearing my comments, the class thought that the dancing was a great way to transition from one scene to the next. The angles I got on the dancers and the way that I incorporated not only Aramie but the entire team was also a strength. However, the sound behind the dancing was choppy and distorted so I decided to overlay the interview over the dancing. I have never actually done a sound overlay so it was a big project for me but I knew from my class discussions that it would enhance my project so I took on the task.
As I said the sound overlay was one of my stregths but it was also one of my biggest weaknesses because the sound overlay of the dancing was lower then the sound on the actual video. When the transitions occur, it was not as smooth as it could have been or was intended to be. I actually just did not have the complete knowledge I needed to fix this problem. The audio was fading out a little to early, which made some of Aramie's last words indeciferable and the audience did not like this effect. However, I do feel like my video reachs its targeted audience and is a successful film.
At this point, I do not feel like my video is ready to be distributed to a much wider audience then the actual classroom. Nonetheless, I will provide a copy to Aramie and I would be ok with him showing it or distributing it to the rest of Hip-Notic.

HIP-NO VIDEO