Video Media is something that influences the world. Be it TV, movies, trailers, or any thing of the kind, it influences lives all over the globe. On another side, something that sets our world’s future are school. Schools either create a better future or not; all that schools do is prepare the youth to (in the future) become leaders, business men and women, to be influential, and to carry on what they have learned from us. Wouldn’t it be great if the two (schools and video media) would work together? This is not something that would be hard to do in fact the steps to join film making and school together are easy, and come with great benefits such as: good learning time for the students, teamwork in action, mighty tool of influence, recorded events of what was done, and creativity flourishing. Truly, young people have very creative minds, and this opens a great door for media. Here are what any school could have that would enable them to use this form of learning:

a camera/a computer/a editing program/and that’s it.

What are the steps for making a movie?

To make a video, you have to go through a few simple steps:

First of all, you need an idea. Every single movie happens because its producer had an idea to do something. And using this with a school would be no exception. Have you ever heard the phrase: “It all starts in the mind”? With film-making, you start thinking on what you want to do, and once you have a good idea you start the work. The second step is to gather what you need. Be it props, people to help you, actors, or anything you need; you have to make sure that you get it before you start filming so that you won’t cause problems when you are doing so. Third is filming the movie itself. Most of the emotion you want to put into the video comes from how you film it. Where, how, and when you can all influence what your video will look like, and that will cause the greatest effect in the movie you are creating. Fourth thing to do is to edit what you have gotten until now. You have now to actually make the video, and pt everything together, just like music and making it flow well. The fifth and last step is adding the cherry on top of the cake; which most times isn’t necessary, but if you do it, it goes into another level. This is of course adding music to your video, and not just any type of music, a soundtrack. Give the video something that can accompany it throughout the whole thing, and you will notice that it will grasp the attention of viewers much more quickly. And that is it, once you have completed theses things you will be good to go onto your next project. and always remember to have a creative mind that will allow you to think further than expectations and make some truly impressive things!

“The Hiding Place” is the life of Corrie Ten Boom told through a book; but, you can only put a certain amount of emotion into pages. A life filled with all sorts of excitation, the life of someone who could have lived happily, but chose to help others, and gave up her freedom and rest because of her love.

Corrie and her family were gained their life by clock making during the events of World War II, and they chose to help those who were being persecuted by the Nazi. Just by helping those who were in need of help, the hiding place was created so that in any case that they had to hide. And even though there could is great emotion while Corrie was helping others, there is much more when she is arrested and taken to concentration camps and forced to work. She faces and endures various trials and after all that, freedom can be found once more.

I have done a drawing on my thought of the book. It depicts what I would say would be an apocalyptic world on the outside of the Ten Boom property and how peaceful it was inside the house. This made me think on how good it would have been for the refugees when they found a place like the hiding place. The happiness they would feel, because the outside world was in chaos and men were all against each other, while inside the house there was peace and tranquility.

The Diary of Anne Frank By Anne Frank herself is an incredible book that tells tales of Anne’s life during the period of World War II. It all starts with a change of life in Anne’s life; before the war there were no problems between Jews and Germans, but after Hitler arose to power much changed. She and her family have to run away from their house and live a new and different type of life, hidden from everyone and everything. They live in a secret hiding place behind a friends house, and they depend on the favors and helps of many people to get them through the war. Many things cannot be afforded by them, and they live a life of scarcity. Times come and times go and eventually they are found and send to concentration camps and faced with many trials that only God could help them with. Unfortunately many loved ones don’t make it through these trials, and yet Anne’s diary influences many lives until today, and it makes us think and reflect on how things could have been different, how could the holocaust not have happened, and what would of happened if Anne were never to journal, never to be born the way she was born?

 

I made a drawing describing what most impacted me from this book. It made me question if anyone was truly free? In one side Anne was captured and it shows the sadness of the life of someone who was captured. All the culture of the people who had been captured had also been lost. And on the other side it shows the irony of someone who had been free at those times. Irony because, even though they could have been away from prison, they could have been prisoners to something much bigger. Imprisoned by a general mindset, stuck to obeying what one man would say.

Was anyone truly free?