ReflectioN
The process of the essay was difficult because at the beginning I write and then I erased what I wrote. After a long thinking, I decide to write about the dangers of social media. The three topics that I chose about the danger of social media were grooming, sexting, and cyber bullying. I chose these three subjects because I know cases for each of them and that will help me with the evidence. Then, I search for a whole bunch of statistics for each topic. Finally, I connect each paragraph and separate sentences I wrote, so the essay can be complete.
The process of the video takes me a lot of work. First, I decide to make a video, because I have to choose a new media way to explain my essay like a website or a podcast. I chose to do it in iMovie because I really l like to use it and because I get creative using it. Then, I start planning in the storyboard prewritten, I draw a simple and brief sketch of what I wanted to do. After, I download the videos I was going to use and organize them in order. Then, I put all the written part with the information of the definitions and statistics. Later, I record my voice with the same information I mention before and with the cases of each topic. Finally, I put all the effects for the videos, the written parts, the music, and the recordings.
The similarities that I found between the essay and the video were, first that for both I have to use technology and that make me distract easier. Second, that for both I have to plan what I was going to do. Third and last. that for both I spend a lot of time. The differences that I found were that first for the essay I have to write more than the video. Second, that for the video I need to have creative ideas for what I was going to do. Third and last, that although I waste a lot of time in both, I waste more time creating the essay because I need ideas but for the video I have all the information, the same information from the essay, I only need ideas to do creative things that call the atention of the audience.
I don´t like to write essays, it is hard for me to do them, but not because I can´t do them but because I get lazy. Also, a difficulty I have was that I have a lot of work from other classes and that make me procrastinate a lot too. Something that was really difficult was to find statistics of near years. Even though I have difficulties, it has its pleasures. I think the biggest I can say is that I learn a lot seaching for the statistics, I get to know more about the topic.
Making the video also has it difficulties. It was hard to download the short films that I was going to put in the whole video. Also, it was hard to adjust the audio, because at the beginning it doesn´t sound good. But it has its pleasures too. I really like to do artistic things. I am really creative using iMovie, and I enjoy working on it.
This was all the process I have to do to create my social media dangers essay and that amazing video that is above, I know you will like it and you will get to know more about the risks of social media. Every essay and project has it process. Next I will describe the process of this huge project that contains an essay and a video. Also I will tell you the similarities and differences, and the difficulties and pleasures of doing the essay and the video.