Sunday, February 7, 2010

HW 38- Cool Project

Cool can be interpreted so many different ways. Whether you are the cool one, trying to be cool, or aren't trying to be cool, cool is always present. The idea of trying to be cool eventually crosses everyones mind. Even if you are not trying to be cool, you are still thinking about cool. In Alicia and I video, we tried to focus on how people aspect of cool can affect a person. Everyone has a desire to be cool and uses the people around them to influence which type of cool they want to be apart of. In our video we focus on the labels/stereotypes that are present in our school. There is always someone who doesn't seem to fit in with a certain 'clique', and fail miserably when they do try to fit in.

Alicia's character knows that she doesn't fit in with a certain group, and hates being the outcast. She sees girls come into the bathroom that know where they fit in and tries to see if she would fit in as well. She sees Esther the Asian girl that's into anime, Egypt the cocky jock, Brittani the confident fashionista, and Sandy the proper and poised good girl. Alicia tries to be like each of these girls by mimicking their pose in the mirror, just to get a disgusted rejected look from each of them (except Sandy). After watching our video, I hope people will question how much other people influence who you are. Although the message in our video is

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