Blog Post and Reading Response *8

I'm really excited about making the rest of our documentary. Hopefully we'll get all footage we need by tomorrow. Tonight I'm going to try and film the intro using my mom's amazing record player and some jazz records. I hope it works out. And I think it'd be great if we could find some old photos of the KBEM station. When it was starting or just at another period in its time.
This week's reading was "A Gift of Love" by Martin Luther King Jr. This was in recognition of Black History Month, was it not? I liked this reading. It's nice to hear that people can learn to change and stand up for what they need, but without physical harm. It's harder to try to make something happen with words only, but this is a more powerful way of saying what needs to be said than with violence. To me, a march shows a lot. Shows that you are really standing up for something, whatever it may be. "They decided to rise above the cruelties of those slums and to work and march,peacefully, for human dignity."

Blog Post & Reading Response #7

I think me and Lena will be able to make a good documentary. After much stress and going insane we were finally able to make a successful trailer. Apparently people liked it more than we did and I'm really happy about that. We're going back to the KBEM studios this week to film more for our documentary and hopefully we'll be more organized and get less scribble. I think we'll do great in the long run! I'm so excited.
This week's reading was A Bed for the Night. It was poem I believe. I like it, because what it says is truth. There are homeless people who have to spend there nights out in the cold and lots of people don't want to accept that it's reality. Helping someone get a bed for the night may not change the world, it's true, but it will make an impact on someone that needs help. It's all you can really do. Try to help one person at a time, unless you're Oprah or Angeline Jolee or something.. Most likely you aren't.

Blog Post #6

I forgot all about this week's reading.
On another note...
Our documentary is finally making progress!! Today we got some shooting done for our trailer (mainly) and have made more plans. We will be editing like mad women on Sunday in order to make our Monday trailer deadline. It's going to be a great time. I feel like an idiot though... basically forgot how to use the camera it's been so long. There was a lot of swearing and under the breath mumbling at today's filming, but eventually we'll get our groove back. I'm so happy and excited!!!!!!

Blog Post and Reading Reflection #5

Wow. So my group is extremely far behind. We've lost a group member, which is okay. Me and Lena work really well with each other and I think our final project will be great regardless. We've now changed the topic of our documentary from the topic of monogamy to the topic of how people show affection towards each other. We've decided to interview Eva Neubeck and we're working on others. Lena was sick two days this week so that's another reason we're behind. Next week will be real stressful..
This reading was called Theme for English B by Langston Hughes. Poetry is a pretty confusing thing to me. It's like alphabet soup.. if that makes any sense. But what I am getting from this reading is that he feels one with his environment. Maybe not one, but very intertwined. He breaths his city. And (even if not by choice) a part of him is white, because he is surrounded by white people. He learns from them and teaches in return. People are people and the color of your skin won't pick your hobbies or likes and dislikes. America is a melting pot.