CRV by Me

What is a concerned citizen?  Is it someone running fundraisers and collecting donations to better the community?  Is it an individual who is fighting against an issue they see, making themselves a social warrior?  When we were thinking of who we wanted to focus on for our project, we agreed that we wanted someone who was passionate.  We wanted someone who stood for something good, and had that genuine spirit of wanting to make the world a better place.  What a better individual and example of this than that of a child?  After all, in the scriptures we are constantly encouraged to become even as a child.  Remi and Ella are two little girls on a mission to make their community a better place.  Some may look at them and ask what exactly they can do, being children after all.  But their reach is influencing and changing the environment in which they are a part of.  Being a concerned citizen does not have to be a large, global scale thing. ...

Thinking of a concept for this project was fairly difficult at first because I wanted to choose a social issue that I personally related to, and there are plenty of those! But the one I chose to bring attention to is that of the influence media has on people - particularly the millennial generation. To do this, I created a game inquiring about which political party the gamer believes they are a part of. Each decision led to a few options that were encouraging, but basic. Each option was just that - an option. Any sort of outside opinion wasn't available because that is not how media portrays politics at all. It's either that you are one way or the other. An article found in the Nieman Lab by Jonathan Stray suggests that "usually the complaints have to do with what the media is saying about a candidate. But another theory says that it's the attention that matters. Good news or bad - maybe the important thing is just to be talked about." Perhaps this is true, but th...

We chose fight or flight as a subject for our Webspinna Battle. This was one of the strangest projects either of us have ever done. The whole time we were preparing we kept saying to each other “What are we doing?”. At some point we just decided to go with it. It took some letting go and not worrying about outcomes anymore -- which was hard to do and a bit strange. But it was also very freeing in a lot of ways. Something that we discovered while doing this is that just how much we love certain media and how much media has influenced us. As we were discussing different possibilities, certain quotes or clips from movies and shows would come to mind. It was revealing that a lot of our clips were from Pirates of Caribbean and Lord of the Rings . These were films that we grew up on. They informed a lot about who we are, how we view and tell stories, and even how we interpret different ideas and emotions.          Everything that we come in c...