Reflecting on TCF

I have loved loved this class. When i signed up for it I wasn't really sure what i was getting myself into. Looking back on it now i am so glad that i decided to sign up for this course. I learned so many interesting things about how social media worked. As we all know the tornado hit this past week and this sent me in to panic mode. The town that i have grew up in was devastated. My dad is a minister at a church here in town and we immediately started to get to work with volunteering. The church i attend is Calvary. Its a pretty big church so we had lots of people to help and since i have a boot on i knew that my help would be a tad limited. When i realized this all i could think about was this class. I thought about all the times we talked about advertising and how to get the word out to other people. I immediately picked up my phone and started tweeting the Tuscaloosa news and James Spann! After I tweeted them I got a crew of 7 people to help me start calling the radio. We called ourselves the Social Media Crew. We sent out so many tweets and the Tuscaloosa news and all the radios were relaying our messages as soon as we got them to them. After the Tuscaloosa news and James Spann started to retweet my phone started going off like crazy!! People were mentioning me and retweeting me left and right. I knew that this was something little i could do but it took off and made me proud. When people would walk in with donations they would say we saw that the Tuscaloosa news retweeted this and the older people of the church were in shock. They couldn't believe what was going on. We tried to explain it to them but they honestly didn't understand. I am so glad i took this class and got to learn about all the different things that are going on in the world that we live in today.

Final Project!

http://www.scribd.com/full/54447296?access_key=key-2bg5075sn05v6nvs2dxo
(I hope this works i am not forsure if it will)


When I started on my project I decided that I would do a video. Needless to say i ended up doing a slide show! In my slide show the idea i had was to have the videos i thought were the most interesting about my topic and put them in with my slideshow. I asked many questions that went through my head as i researched and wanted to get other peoples opinion and then discuss the real life matters of the questions. I was planning on my presentation to be lots of discussing and digging into the matters on hand so its kinda hard for me to type about it but i can not help the tornado came. The moral of my entire project was that no matter how little information you put online there are creepers out there who can figure it all out and find out exactly where you are, as well as is it healthy to put so much information online about your life? I put two separate videos in my project that talk about two separate things. One talks about how this guy is getting a divorce and he keeps a video of the divorce. Some say this could be considered a vlog but i think that this is not considered that considering it is on youtube and not on a site that is made for vlogs. is it to much to put that online? this could be controversial and taking two separate ways. I discussed with many people on  my hall at Tut what they thought and i got mixed views. With all these mixed views i was sure that in our class i would have two separate sides as well. Some of the girls said that they didn't think it was ok because what if the parents little kid found those videos or if other people found them that could be considered really embarrassing. On the other hand their are people that think it is ok because what if he or she did not have anyone else to tell their feelings to. I wish this horrible tornado didn't come so i could do this in class :(

Do we really live in public?

Last week in class we watched a video called We Live In Public. This video blew me out of the water. I had no clue what to think or even know where to begin to think. I thought it was so weird how they put them in the things under ground to study them. Considering he got bored i do not think the people ever actually got  studied. The way they lived in the public through the videos was crazy and i am more than positive that i could never do that! the way they had sex and were all over each other was ridiculous and i think that they did it just for all the looks. i am sure that many of the people that watched their videos had little of no life anyways considering as soon as something intense happened they would all jump on their computers. that just goes to show that their relationship was all made up of what they would talk about after they did it. This could not have been healthy for their relationship or for there personal life. When they broke up everything started to slow down and deciding to cut off LIFE IN PUBLIC was a great idea. It was so uncalled for and not healthy. I think that it is very interesting how much he accomplished and how many times he would get bored and want to move on with life! its more than crazy!

Golf!

So there is probably just a few sports i have not given a chance to in my life. One of these sports is Golf. My entire family besides myself plays golf but i have not found that passion. My younger brother loves golf and plays it any time he has a spare moment to pick up a club. Even if he is not out on the course you can catch him hitting balls down the hall of our house or even in the TV room. Today he had a huge match!! It was the city county tournament and he was a tad bit nervous. I have never been to one of his matches before so today i went. It was very different from the sports i have played but was still awesome. My entire family was at the course and it was so fun to just spend time together and watch my brother. He played as the number #3 seed because he is just a sophomore so the seniors got the 1 and 2. This put less pressure on my brother and he kicked butt! it was so fun to just sit back and enjoy time with my family without having anything major to worry about! It was just a great time that reminded me how much I put off on my family and expect so much from them and how i do not even acknowledge them for the things they do for me. I love how God will just remind you of little things like this! 

Life

I have had so much going on in my life lately and from the experience i had last weekend i have learned that I am soo soo soo selfish. I had the opportunity to lead 6 and 7th grade girls at a disciple now and through those cute little girls i learned so much. The main thing that I Learned is that in my life i have been blessed with so much and i go through my daily life being so upset about one little thing but in reality my little upsets are nothing compared to what some people are going through. I learned that when searching for my passion i don't need to search in my feelings because at the end of the day my feeling are not going to make or break me and i serve a risen God that has given me a chance at life and that he paid the ultimate price for me to be here on earth so i should praise him for that day i have and forget about yesterday because his plan is bigger than mine and if i am in a bad mood from yesterday i wont listen to what all He has to say to me. Its crazy for me to think about the fact that these little girls are searching for God so strongly and have so much passion that at that age i did not have or even have anything close to what they have. God always send little gifts that remind you who you are and what he has in store for you if you listen. Even when life gets crazy and you mess up all the time he will always pick you up and tell you he loves you!

Copyright

1. In your opinion, is sampling a form of copyright infringement? 
Explain your position
- I think that sampling is in no way a form of copyright. I feel like if someone was using mass amounts of time of one song or another that it would be copyright but not just a couple seconds here and there. Many people think that the beat should not be stolen but in all reality someone could make a beat today and tomorrow that exact same beat could be recreated a day or two later. I am sure that there are many instances like this that happen all the time. If i was the one who made this beat or even wrote the song I am sure that i would feel a little different but from the outside looking in i think that it is wrong to consider sampling as copyright.

2. Some people, such as Lawrence Lessig (a founder of Creative Commons), say that technology enables more creativity, others feel that new technology allows musical artist to take the easy route and just patch together pieces of music created by someone else.Where do you stand on this issue? Where do you think the filmmakers stand?
- I believe that you can look at this issue both ways but that both ways are true/not true. Technology allows the artist to make cool sound effects or even to speed the process of making the music together because they could mess up on one single word and instead of starting all over they can just patch it together. Is this lazy? Some say yes it is but most of the people that feel this way are ones who never had the opportunity to use this technology so therefore they could just be a tad jealous. I think that the people that made the film feel as if it is lazy because through out the movie they talk the entire time about how they have never got the credit they think they deserve for all the beats and music that they made. They make a good point about this but its time to move on with life and except the fact that we have technology.

3. Does re purposing a piece of music always have a detrimental effect on the way the original recording is perceived? Does it always cut into the profits of the owner of the original recording? Why or why not?
- When pieces of music are redone there usually is a huge gap in time between the time that the song was originally recorded and the time it was recreated. With this said I believe that yes it can change that was it is perceived but not the profits from the original owner. As time passes the lingo and the way people think is changed.So if a song was written in the older days it could be innocent and sweet but could now be taken by a teenager today as perverted. This fact is sad but its so true. Usually if there is a big time gap there will also not be many people buying the original song. If there are a good bit of people in all honesty it is going to be people who lived in the time period of that song and they are going to care nothing about the new song that is put out.

Im never in the right place at the right time!

   Last Wednesday i was sick and didn't get to com to class. As soon as i saw Lena i knew i had to find out exactly what was going on because i feel as if it is really easy to get behind in this class. She told me that i missed out on a awesome class so then i was even more bummed because i had been miserable on Wednesday and missed out on a total party :( I was informed that two way cool people named....

Invincible

Waajeed

    So needless to say after i found out their names i got on the computer and had to check them out. I found out that Waajeed is a very good producer and has made his way up in the jobs of producing and that Invincible was named best female hip hop artist in 2008 in Detroit. They look like a big party and i seriously hate that i missed out on getting to chat with them. I am also so excited to see the video that they made with the older film students. I'm sure it will be amazing! Lena also informed me that everyone in the class got filmed and had to tell there name and all that jazz so I'm not really that upset that i missed that!