Documentary Ideas

1. How Facebook is essentially like a "timeline" throughout the years
2. How Twitter can be peoples insight to the outside world
2. How Facebook and Twitter can keep people connected

Audio Essay Final Project

Video Games

Are video games art? This is a question I have never really asked myself or thought of whether video games are art. If you think about it, almost anything can be a piece of art in some way or another. Art is really a pretty broad idea. When most of us think art we think of a gallery with drawings, paintings or sculptures but not really much of anything else. When I think of art I wouldn’t automatically categorize video games as artwork, but the more I think about it video games are pieces of artwork. Someone has taken the time to design how the game will run and all the features and scenes to go along with it. Similarly I wouldn’t think of like TV or movies to be art, but in a way they are. They take artistic ability to make and design the show or movie, not so much of the artistic ability we think of, like drawing or sculpting, but in the way of designing scenes, outfits and scripts.

When we see a painting we tend to think about what it means or how the author thought of the design, so it draws us in and makes us interested in the artwork, no matter what kind it is. When playing video games we don’t exactly think about it in that kind of aspect but it does draw us in, in the fact that it can be appealing and somewhat addicting. So in different ways, both things have an emotional pull towards the artwork.

With as many video games as there are out there, there are so many different kinds and so called “art” incorporated in them. With the different character, and scenes involved in them the spectrum is so wide of the types of art.

As technology is developing the definition of art is broadening. Back a hundred years ago when they didn’t have TV, movies, or video games their art was limited to paintings, drawings or sculpture. But now with all the IPhones, IPads, and computers available, each in their own, are pieces of art.

So, I guess I have never thought about art in the different ways that it could exist. I have always just thought pictures or drawings were art but now I understand how other things can fall in the art category.

Storyboard

Quickly and easily contact others

Something everyone can relate to

Keeps me updated with all of my friends

Keeps my life organized

Moments like these we will remember for a lifetime

The people that I will be friends with for the rest of my life

Capturing memories we will never forget

Making memories with the people I have become closest to

Keeping in touch with friends even though hundreds of miles apart

Making new friends along the way

Music for Essay

"Wanted" by Hunter Hayes- Instrumental Version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16u_STkjar0

"Sweet Serendipity" by Lee Dewyze- Instrumental Version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b9mDTMSsn8


I love the guitar and piano in both of these and I think will go well with my speech.

Music Video Snapshots

She is crying over the loss of her boyfriend.

They used to be inseparable, spending so much time with each other

She is sick to her stomach over his death, and her mom is also so upset at her daughters loss.

She is chasing after him, after he leaves.

They were very much in love with each other.

She is lost without him.

Seeing his empty seat in class is killing her.

They were young lovers.

She is very depressed over his death.

Music Video Analysis

I chose to analysis the song "What Hurts the Most" by Rascal Flatts. This song was released in 2006 in their "Me and My Gang," so I have been listening to this song for a while. I have always enjoyed Rascal Flatts music and when I was listening to this song I had never fully understood what it meant until I saw the music video. Normally when I listen to songs I don't stop and think about what they are saying and the meaning of the song. It’s helpful though to watch the music videos to help understand what some songs mean. I understood that it obviously was about someone being upset and hurt about losing someone, but I didn’t know what they had fully meant by losing someone. When I was just listening to the lyrics it made it a bit hard to decipher. However, now that I have seen the music video I understand more of the meaning behind why they wrote the song. At first it starts off with a girl crying then lashing out at her dad and screaming at him. It is clear that she is upset and blaming her dad for something. Then as the video goes on, I start to discover more about her boyfriend and how close they were and they spent a lot of time together. Throughout this there are little snip-it’s that she is very upset without him and I start to understand what is going on. They show her alone in class, sitting next to an empty seat and her in tears, at first I just thought that they had broken up and she was just very upset. I don’t start to fully understand the meaning of the entire song until the very end when you see her chasing after his truck and he gets in a car crash and she ends up next to a cross on the side of the road. Then once the video is completely over I started to put all the pieces together of what the song was fully about.

At the very beginning when the girl in the video is screaming at her dad, I later find out that he didn’t approve of her boyfriend and made them break up. The day that he came over and they broke up; after he left her house he got in a car crash and passed away. So she blames her dad for making her break up with him and she is just so upset that her life is in shambles. The video shows a scene of her in the bathroom puking because she is just so sick to her stomach from all of the depression. It shows both of her parents also feeling the pain with her; both of their hearts are broken with saddens for their daughter. Music videos seem to help a lot with understanding the full meaning of songs. With a visual along with audio helps me put the two together and make complete sense of the entire product.