I wrote about Michael Jackson’s They Don’t Really Care About Us, specifically dissecting the prison version of the music videos. In Core Assignment 1, I specifically delved into the way the music video director used montages to depict civil rights movements and human rights violations all over the world. He then tied it back to …
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Crybaby
The style of my first assignment video was really artistic but also complex. There’s themes and ideas that aren’t too clear, but connect with each other and still paint a picture, so even though I’m no earl sweatshirt and I won’t be layering the video in some crazy depth, I’m still going to try to …
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The Past Chances
For the first core assignment, I wrote about Stressed Out by Twenty One Pilots. It spoke about turning back time to when they were kids. It brought up the difficulty of the transition to adulthood. It brought up dreams vs reality. For my second assignment, I researched stress and the best ways to reduce stress. …
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Him or Gym
Two dysfunctional and homosexual married men, aged 23 and 25, try to come to grips with an intermingling of family life and work life. Being recently married and at last moving into a house together, this was a new barrier that they had to overcome. Due to the recent pandemic of Covid-19, both men lost …
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Parasite
The film I’ve selected is “Parasite.”Bong Joon Ho wrote and directed “Parasite” and will be on theaters on October 11, 2019. The cumulative length of the run is 132 minutes. The cast members include Song Kang Ho, Lee Sun Kyun, Yeo-Jeong Jo, Choi Woo Sik, and more. The Kim family lives in a semi-basement and …
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The Trafficking Ring
For the past core assignment, I’ve studied gun control laws and found out about the loopholes and the inconsistency in them making firearms more accessible to the ones who aren’t eligible to purchase a gun. One of the issues is called “the gun show loophole”. Basically, before purchasing a gun it is required that the …
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The Truth
Another idea I have is a African American kid who for a school project was told to pick out a job they want to do in the future so that they can present it. The kid had a whole posted board ready to prepare his dream job of becoming a cop. On his way to …
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A Price for Everything
A lot of kids dread of becoming famous actors/actresses, artists, or athletes. Many of these famous people started from poverty as well. Countless athletes and artists come from poor backgrounds and made their way into fame with their athletic abilities or artistic talent. However, what is the real cost of stardom? The flashing lights of …
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The Other Cowboys Again
My idea was to make something wild west themed (duh, it involved cowboys). With that in mind, I would probably choose a rather cliche, old, wild west themed song as well as visuals. I will also try to recover some visuals involving black cowboys even though I know that they are going to be much …
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The Story of Chris G
Since my first assignment was based off of Eminem’s Stan, I wanted the concept of my main character to be similar to that of Stan’s. However, I didn’t want to give it a bad ending just like Stan, but I wanted to tie it to my second assignment which was based off of seeking help …
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It was just a wild imagination –”Groundhog Day.”
How would re-living a day feel like? Ecstatic right? Imagine waking up in the morning and discovering that you are on the same day as yesterday. You get to re-do all your mistakes and make everything right. You know what and when something will happen, and you are now in control. You turn on your …
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Radical beliefs of Joe Steel
The movie for assignment three will be based on assignments 1 and 2. In assignment 1, one of the meanings that was derived by the scenes of the music video ‘’Humble’’ by Kendrick Lamar was that evil men are hungry for more power, and they are known to abuse it. In assignment two, I wrote …
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Alternate Fights
My first assignment walked through the story of a guy who worked on a office job and went through constant harassment and discrimination which led him to quit his job. I used the harassment and discrimination factor to write a research paper workplace harassment in my second assignment. For my third assignment, I want to …
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Blog #4
For my first assignment, I wrote about a woman who sees, through a television, how her life may unfold if she is to continue on the path to plastic surgery that she is starting to follow. The video begins with her dabbling with artificial beauty, using things such as weight loss pills and synthetic wigs …
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Drugs are over glorified
For my first assignment, I wrote about The Weeknd Blinding Lights. I wrote about the impact his drug abuse had on his relationship with Bella Hadid. For my second assignment, I decided to focus on the impact the cocaine industry has had on local communities in Colombia and their youth. I narrowed down my topic …
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