What Is Personal Identity?

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I found this project to be quite intimidating considering I have zero creativity. Also nor do I have any artist talent. Thu, this project was a learning experience for me. I decided that my project would take form in a video. I decided this partially because I’m incredibly self-conscious, shy and presenting is one of my biggest fears, but also because I thought it would look good. I wanted to focus on personal identity because it was the section of the course I most enjoyed. When discussing personal identity in class I couldn’t help but remember every show I’d ever watched the portrayal of each of the views on it. That’s when I decided that my video would be a video mix/ collage of clips from the media 's portrayal of personal identity. I …show more content…

The opening scene is a clip from YouTuber Hank Green asking the main questions asked when talking about personal identity . He is yelling, “How do I know who I am”, “what makes me “, “ Am I the same person I was when I went to sleep” and “who am I”. I thought this was a great way to start of the video because not only is he asking the questions people have on this subject matter, he is also showing the way people feel about it. The way he is yelling sort expresses the want and need for answers to questions of identity. The clip also fits perfectly with the topic of personal identity. In class, we discussed that in personal identity you always question what makes you the same person you are over time. So I really liked that Hank asked you know how do I know that I am the same person that went to sleep last night. I also think I chose it because he was showing a lot of emotion in it. I wanted to get people rattle up with the clip. I wanted them to want to watch the rest of the video to see if the questions were …show more content…

This clip is quite interesting because she says “ how do I put “ in response to the interviewers question and just basically stares for a couple of seconds. I thought this would be an interesting follow-up to the clip of hank asking who he is because it 's such a hard question to answer. There are many views on personal identity and it’s not black or white. It’s very up to interpretation depending on people’s personal beliefs. So I found that the clip of lady gaga being at a loss for words fitting to the topic. In between both these clips I used a transition to make the clips flow better. So it didn’t just look like two random clips that were chopped off. The transition I used was one of the old film countdowns. So basically it counts down to the start of the next clip. I used this transition for all sections of the video. I wanted the transitions to make the video interesting and keep my fellow classmates interested. Also in order maintain interest the rest of the clips are set to the song Indian Summer by Jai Wolf with Voiceovers by yours

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