documentary outline

my plan is to have three or four people interviewed ask them the same questions but film them in different spots and based on their answers i will get shots that coincide with their answers and briefly cut to those images in the video after or as they say their answer. the video will be about change and how they have changed from when they were a child up to now. how their interests have changed, how their friends have changed, how their personalities have changed. who their hero was when they were a kid and who their hero is now to see if it has changed.

documentary idea

15 things i know:
1) peoples interests change as you grow up
2) you make new friends
3) you keep some of the old ones
4) you become more intelligent
5) you become more mature
6) your imagination begins to go away as you grow older
7) you have more ideas as a kid
8) you never run out of energy as a kid
9) you have a very short attention span as a kid
10) you dont care what your doing you just have to be doing something
11) alot more active as a kid
12) not lazy
13) when you grow older you have more responsibility
14) with that responsibility you have more freedom
15) kids and adults are the same person but different people inside

15 things i want to know:
1) how people were like as a kid
2) how their interests have changed
3) what they did as the were growing up
4) who their hero was
5) who their hero is now
6) what they do for fun now
7) where they used to hang out
8) where they hang out now
9) have their friends changed
10) are they still firends with their friends from their childhood
11) what hobbies they had as a child
12) do they have hobbies now
13) what is their dream job
14) what car they drive
15) whats their dream car

big idea reflection

This needs to be shared with me by Wednesday, March 6. Also post the answers on your Blogger.

How did you decide on your Big Idea?
it took me a while to actually decide to dot his idea because i had a couple other ideas i was going to do but never had the time to do it so i decided to do something that i would have the time to do but also make a quality video and i used techniques that i learned from a previous project in this class.

How did you decide on a way to show that Big Idea through video?
what i knew how to do in editing format from this class helped me alot i tried to use techniques that i had learned and was good at to show my big idea project

What video concepts did you decide not to do? Why?
animation because it is just too simple and boring and anyone can do it so i decided to try something harder.

Do you feel you effectively talked about your Big Idea with your video? Why or why not?
yes because my idea was facing your inner demons everyone has one and mine is just im lazy and i showed that very well in my video.

What was the best part of this process (brainstorming, writing, planning, shooting, editing, etc?) Why was it the best for you?
shooting i always like shooting videos because you can come up with things on the spot to make the video better.

What was the best part of choosing your own Big Idea as opposed to me setting one for you? The worst part?
i like the freedom that it gave me to basically be able to do anything i wanted with it. the worst part was not knowing exactly what to accomplish with my video.

Propose one additional Big Idea video idea that you could accomplish by March 14. I want very specific details: what, who, why, how, when, where.

big idea: Memories.

reliving my past.

who: me, stephen crabtree. 

why: my past is in my old neighborhood i moved out of and i haven't really been there since

how: pretend we are little kids and do the same things we did when we were kids ex: climb trees shoot airsoft guns play video games just be crazy little kids again.

when: whenever.

where: my old neighborhood.

big idea part 2

what is happiness to me? happiness is not worrying about anything just living in the moment thats happening when i am doing that i am truly happy.
how do people define happiness? good fortune; pleasure; contentment; joy. is the dictionary definition of happiness
what does happiness mean to different age groups? older generations see happiness as being with people that they care about and younger generations think of instant gratification instead of more important things like family friends and loved ones 
how can i make a random person happy? by doing an act of kindness for them that is unexpected.
what would people think if you do a random act of kindness for them? oh my what a nice boy i didnt expect him to do that for me
why are people not happy with their lives? sometimes life just gets you down and life gets difficult and some people have trouble looking on the brighter side of difficult times with reason
how can i change someone's life for that day? by doing the unexpected for them no matter what it is
how can i make that specific persons day better? by focusing on that person to see what they need and things that they could use that you can do for them

big idea project

A) Big Idea: happiness
Potential topics: changing someone's life, making their day better, going out of your way to go the extra mile for someone you dont know, doing anything and everything you can for someone, being the kid people say is a good boy that was raised right, make your life about helping other people, random acts of kindness,

B) Essential Questions: what is happiness to me? how do people define happiness? what does happiness mean to different age groups? how can i make a random person happy? what would people think if you do a random act of kindness for them? why are people not happy with their lives? how can i change someone's life for that day? how can i make that specific persons day better?

C) 10 Statements About the Big Idea: 
1. happiness is about smiling
2. happiness is about changing your mood
3. happiness is about not being sad
4. happiness is about other people
5. happiness is about unselfishness
6. happiness is about changing peoples look on things
7. happiness is about doing something that makes you feel good
8. happiness is about not caring what other people think of you
9. happiness is about being yourself
10. happiness is about doing whatever it takes to make someone else happy no matter the consequences

intervention ruberic

- In your own words, what is intervention?
something that is outside normal society and changes someones look on life for that day.

- What was the purpose of this exercise?
to test your problem solving skills and to see what ideas you can come up with to change someones lives positively.

- Why did you choose to intervene the way you did? I’m looking for more than “I thought it would be funny” or “no one would expect it.”  What social/personal/human issue did you intend to comment on? Why? How?
i chose to intervene the way i did because i thought it would change someones outlook on life for that day at least so it would have the “pay it forward” affect so if one person did a good deed then the person they helped would do one and so on and so forth.

- Why did you choose the location? I’m looking for more thought than “lots of people would be there, so I went there.” How did the location play up your specific idea?
well it is a high traffic area an i know people that work there so i figured i wouldnt get in any trouble for doing it but even with alot of people being there i could not get anyone to find my intervention but it was a good spot to go to because its easy to hide something in plain sight and to hide a camera to catch the person finding it.

- Name three specific examples, ideas, artworks or statements you observed in class that helped you plan for this project.
i looked on vimeo at interventions and that helped a little bit but i just could not come up with an idea to do for this project. some of the things that helped me were like strangers on a train and mr. aumillers library example.

Now pull from all of your answers and write a succinct, coherent three paragraph artist statement about your intervention artwork. Use descriptive language. Explain yourself like the intelligent person you are.

Embed the video on your blog and post your artist statement under it. See my example if you need help.
my intervention was very difficult to figure out what to do at first i was having trouble finding a good idea to try out. all i could come up with was running around like a crazy person yelling random things at people. but thats not really an intervention that is just random that makes people wonder what is wrong with you. so when i was thinking of ideas i couldnt get one that would actually be a good intervention to try. eventually Mr. Aumiller just told me to stand on a table and scream "oh captain my captain" with my fist in the air. that gave me two good ideas that would actually be a good intervention. but the only thing was it was clod outside and it also rained the night that i was supposed to be in a tree so i couldnt do that.
so when i was thinking of what to do for this project i just could not think of anything this project was definitely the hardest project to think of an idea to do. i normally do not have that problem normally i know what i'm going to do the moment i hear what we are doing for the project. but this project hat didn't happen i was just having a block of ideas which is very interesting to me because that never happens to me. i'm an interesting person and normally i come up with interesting ideas right on the spot of things that are outside the norm and people would look at it and be like "what i cant believe someone did this this is the most interesting thing ive ever seen." but with this project i just had absolutely no ideas what to do whatsoever. it was very frustrating to me that i didn't have any ideas i wasn't used to not having a clue what we were doing or what i was going to do for a project.
eventually Mr. Aumiller gave me a book that had intervention ideas in it and i read it for the rest of that period until one idea popped out at me and i was thinking to myself "hey this idea has alot of potential and i could do alot of things with this." so i went to talk to Mr. Aumiller and he said it was a good idea and i should try it. so the first time i tried it i tried it in old hilliard but it was snowing outside and noone was walking around so i went to a higher traffic area where people would be outside for sure and still noone would cooperate with me on this project until one person cooperated and it was a good thing because it was dark and late so i had to be home soon but his project by far was the most difficult project this year for me.

intervention ideas

1. dress up as kool-aid man and go in every class room and yell "OH YEAH!!!!!!".
2. act like you have touretts but instead of yelling random things yell compliments at people
3. place flyers saying things for people to do to the next person they see
4. glue a quarter to the ground and film people picking it up
5. place out of order on something and see what people do
6. ask people random questions for a survey that doesnt exist
7. say compliments to random people i dont know
8. make a poster giving people advice
9. make a poster to give motivation to people
10. run around doing random things and see what people do

alternative persona ideas

the person who killed osama bin laden: bdu (camo)
john mclain: dirty white beater jeans
james bond: suit