Take Action roject
Project Description: My project is a video used to inspire the people that watch it. This video will contain clips of video from nepal, canyonlands and possibly clips of other places that will get you out of the daily grind of life. There will be an inspirational music track playing along with these videos and images. This video will be shared throughout the internet via social media networks such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. An army of people will share the video and it will reach the most people we can possibly get to with our power over the internet.
Mission: The outdoors is waiting, the city is waiting, your place is waiting. Wherever your place is go and find it. Your computer can wait. Stop waking up to Instagram, stop eating lunch to videos of cats and stop texting yourself to sleep. Get out into the world and out of your bubble. Become inspired to find your place. Vision: The people who watch my video will be inspired to get out of their daily grind and to spend less time worrying about school and work and more time planning their next adventure. Reflection: My project is a video used to inspire the people that watch it. This video will contain clips of video from Nepal, Canyonlands and possibly clips of other places that will get you out of the daily grind of life. There will be an inspirational music track playing along with these videos and images as well as my sense of place essaycrolling through. This video is shared throughout the internet via social media networks such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. An army of people share the video and it will reach the most people we can possibly get to with our power over the internet. The outdoors is waiting, the city is waiting, your place is waiting. Wherever your place is go and find it. Your computer can wait. Stop waking up to instagram, stop eating lunch to videos of cats and stop texting yourself to sleep. Get out into the world and out of your bubble. Become inspired to find your place. The people who watch my video will be inspired to get out of their daily grind and to spend less time worrying about school and work and more time planning their next adventure. My Take Action Project answers the essential question “How do your sense of place, your environmental ethic, and your understanding of our energy needs influence your perception of human’s use of Earth’s resources and your own lifestyle decisions?” because it inspires people to go out into the world and explore their possibilities and explore their life. My project is designed to make people care about the world around them and to show them its beauties. People see my video and want to go outside and conserve their world. It is a piece of art that can have an impact on people's worlds and how they live by inspiring them visually. This project has made it clear to me that my filmmaking skills can actually be useful in “changing the world” and can inspire and spark interest in whatever topic I choose to represent in my films. I learned a lot about creating inspirational videos and also how to use my editing skills to my advantage to create beautiful work. My passion for filmmaking can help me academically and in later life by giving myself a way to express myself and my views. I learned a lot about how emotional it can get looking back at old footage and recalling those memories. I was inspired by my life experiences and I hope my audience is as well. |
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Sense of Place Essay
Native American Studies Project
Reflection
The Native American studies project was one influential project that we have this year so far. It gave me a lot of insight into what it was like to be a Native American in the early days of the United States and also what it was like from then on forward. It was a good way to explore our nations history, and with my Essay I really got to explore into some of the interactions between the US and Native American tribes by doing my project on a photo of a Native American chief and two mayors, one from the US and one from Canada. The whole experience and all the class content really did connect with me in a lot of ways, one way in particular being how we as a race impact their culture and the long lasting effects we had on their way of life. It was overall an eye-opening project and I now have this knowledge that I will use in later life.
Essay
Wounded Knee Mini-Project
This project involved a lot of writing about and analyzing primary source documents.
Textbook Passage
The Wounded Knee Massacre occurred on December 29, 1890 on the Lakota Pine River Indian Reservation located in South Dakota. 200 native women and children were killed along with 90 native men were killed by 500 soldiers from the 7th U.S. Cavalry. 25 men from the 7th Cavalry were killed and 36 were injured. The Cavalry fired first and the Sioux promptly responded with returning fire. Both sides hit each other and sometimes hit their own soldiers. Shots were fired and people were killed, mainly Sioux civilians.
The Sioux had just been marched by the white men to this reservation. This may have caused tension between these two people. The whites did not view the natives as people but as animals. In years prior to the massacre the Sioux’s land had been shrunken by U.S. expansion. The massacre did not last long due to the overruling number of U.S. Cavalry men.
The Sioux had just been marched by the white men to this reservation. This may have caused tension between these two people. The whites did not view the natives as people but as animals. In years prior to the massacre the Sioux’s land had been shrunken by U.S. expansion. The massacre did not last long due to the overruling number of U.S. Cavalry men.
Film Essay
Film has been used as a source of entertainment for as long as it has existed. In recent years film has started to be used to shed light on historical events but films priority is still entertainment. Because our generations attention span could not withstand the reading of a document like the “General Allotment Act” filmmakers have to resort to improvising. Although film is used for entertaining its audience it can also teach about historical events such as the massacre at Wounded Knee.
Our generation has such an awful attention span that it has become a guideline for filmmakers of all levels to never use a shot longer than 30 seconds. This was one of the first rules of filmmaking that I learned. This means that the hours on hours of speeches and readings of congressional documents that would have occurred in the time period of the Massacre at Wounded Knee have been cut in to segments no longer than a few minutes long with lots of more exciting aspects added. For example, in the film Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee the senator and Charles are drafting the reservations which in reality would have taken at least a full day of struggle and conflict it was turned into an exciting process uplifted by cries of success and encouragement that lasts about a minute or two in the film. How can you get the full story of a historical event when you only see the highly modified adaption of the film. Does this still teach us about the event? Well yes, we see who drafted the document, parts of how, and when this took place. Even though the film adapts the events a lot of the “truths” are still there while others are left out it still teaches us about the event.
Film is developed to make you laugh, to make you cry, make you angry, to make you feel. Historical documents are usually dry, emotionless, and bureaucratically written which can teach you a lot but you rarely ever connect to the text. For example, in the document named “Secretary of Interior’s Congressional Report on Indian Affairs” it states “Deeming it for the very best interest of the Indian, both as an individual and as an embryo citizen,” this statement is emotionless, it is not meant to make you “feel” at all. A film adds emotion, it adds feeling therefore can sometimes show the actual feelings of the people at the time which historical accounts sometimes can not. This would make the film sometimes more accurate but can sometimes also change the real facts of the event. FIlm has its pros and cons of sharing historical events.
When a story of a people who speak a language that has words that can not be translated in to english is translated to film it is put into one language. Usually english because english is the “universal” language. An event can not be perfectly recorded by eyewitnesses when their language may have 30 different words for something english only has one word for. For example, in the film “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee” there is a scene where the natives are talking about what happened at wounded knee but I did not feel the emotion I think I would have if they were speaking their native language. LAnguage has such an effect on how something is discussed or the emotion put into the discussion. But the main point is still getting out. Although language can affect the story of an event there is usually still a degree of truth in it.
Film is an important part of society and has been used to push specific messages upon people and can even shed light on specific events of history. Even though a film can dramatically change a story they are usually not completely wrong. An event like the massacre at wounded knee can be portrayed by film and you can learn about it even with the “hollywood” style distractions and rhetoric.
Our generation has such an awful attention span that it has become a guideline for filmmakers of all levels to never use a shot longer than 30 seconds. This was one of the first rules of filmmaking that I learned. This means that the hours on hours of speeches and readings of congressional documents that would have occurred in the time period of the Massacre at Wounded Knee have been cut in to segments no longer than a few minutes long with lots of more exciting aspects added. For example, in the film Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee the senator and Charles are drafting the reservations which in reality would have taken at least a full day of struggle and conflict it was turned into an exciting process uplifted by cries of success and encouragement that lasts about a minute or two in the film. How can you get the full story of a historical event when you only see the highly modified adaption of the film. Does this still teach us about the event? Well yes, we see who drafted the document, parts of how, and when this took place. Even though the film adapts the events a lot of the “truths” are still there while others are left out it still teaches us about the event.
Film is developed to make you laugh, to make you cry, make you angry, to make you feel. Historical documents are usually dry, emotionless, and bureaucratically written which can teach you a lot but you rarely ever connect to the text. For example, in the document named “Secretary of Interior’s Congressional Report on Indian Affairs” it states “Deeming it for the very best interest of the Indian, both as an individual and as an embryo citizen,” this statement is emotionless, it is not meant to make you “feel” at all. A film adds emotion, it adds feeling therefore can sometimes show the actual feelings of the people at the time which historical accounts sometimes can not. This would make the film sometimes more accurate but can sometimes also change the real facts of the event. FIlm has its pros and cons of sharing historical events.
When a story of a people who speak a language that has words that can not be translated in to english is translated to film it is put into one language. Usually english because english is the “universal” language. An event can not be perfectly recorded by eyewitnesses when their language may have 30 different words for something english only has one word for. For example, in the film “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee” there is a scene where the natives are talking about what happened at wounded knee but I did not feel the emotion I think I would have if they were speaking their native language. LAnguage has such an effect on how something is discussed or the emotion put into the discussion. But the main point is still getting out. Although language can affect the story of an event there is usually still a degree of truth in it.
Film is an important part of society and has been used to push specific messages upon people and can even shed light on specific events of history. Even though a film can dramatically change a story they are usually not completely wrong. An event like the massacre at wounded knee can be portrayed by film and you can learn about it even with the “hollywood” style distractions and rhetoric.