Boy were the 1950's an amazing time or what. I'm glad we got to do this era as not many people know a lot about it or think its boring, but with some research you can see how much it truly changed our society even today! Elvis Presley changed music and teenagers with his "rebellion" type of music and acting. Hanging out at diners or drive in's with your friends was what everyone was doing, and truthfully i wish i was born then! I knew before i made the documentary that i had to add all of the 1950's amazing music. I think our documentary had an overall fun, energetic, happy, and informative vibe. We didn't have a lot of videos of us in it, but i think the few we had did get points across. The pictures and videos added into our documentary were about popular things in the 1950's, such as the show "I Love Lucy" and popular dancing and fashion demonstrated in the movie clips from "Grease". If we could of dressed up and acted out things from the 1950's to show the fashion and fads it would of made our documentary much more interesting, but it was hard to get together and the 1950's clothes are not the coolest thing to wear right now. Also, editing clips together and putting music with them sometimes would be difficult to do but once you finally got it to go together it looked good, but then would have to change what you just edited on the storyboard, which was kind of time consuming. Even though we did not get to add many videos of us, i think our documentary was pretty good, seeing as it was about the 1950's not us. It showed the class good music, pictures, facts and video clips all from the 1950's era which was what we were trying to show from the beginning. It showed the class how much everything has changed over the last 50 years or so to what it is today.
Hmmm... And the other documentary's i saw were amazing! Some of them even looked like a real movie, those are some seriously good editing skills. All the documentary's showed me a good understanding of how things are the way they are today and how society changes based on television, music, celebrities, art and other technologies. I saw how every era something better would be invented like we had learned from precious attempts and then corrected ourselves and became smarter. These documentaries definitely gave me a good knowledge on how we need to make mistakes in technology to improve it and advance in our daily functions. I never knew all the things that happened in each era and it really amazes me how so much can happen over a 10 year period of time. The documentary's definitely helped me understand each era better than reading or writing an essay probably would of. I never knew our class was so talented when it came to making videos and editing them so the information go across in a perfect entertaining way.
