Assigment #2- Watching other people's videos

here are the comments i made on other people's videos:

hey yu xi,
i really like your video, i liked how you included a lot of pictures of your family and friends, because that shows me how meaningful they are to you. i also liked the song you have playing in the backround, and how you incouprated your culture into the video(in the begnning)
very nice job=)
-Rachel J

hey kate!
i love the song you have playing in the backround, its one of my favorite songs by the all american rejects. and i also love your video, you have a nice variation of family and friends, which i think is really important. and of course your cat is adorable.
-Rachel

Vincent!
first i want to thank you for helping me with my video =)
and second, i want to say that i love your video and all the animations, such as fast fowarding the part where daniel is playing cards. i also love how you got candid pictures of your friends. the nature part of your video is also really pretty, and the pictures are gorgeous. and your dogs are cute! (if they are your dogs of course)
-Rachel

hey elivis,
first i want to say that you have a awesome song (the T.I one) playing in the backround. i also like how halfway through the video you switched the song. lastly, i like how you put basketball in your video because i know that it is meaningful to you. great video!
-Rachel

Julie!
i love your video, the song is awesome, and i like how you have a variation of videos and pictures in your video, which is awesome because most videos just have pictures in them. i also like how you put your friends and family in your video, because that shows me that they are menaingul to you.
-Rachel

here are my three insights that i have learned from watching other people's videos:
1.a lot of people put their fmaily and friends in their video because they are meaningful to them, which i thought was cool because now i know that we all have the same idea of what is meaningful in our lives.
2.a lot of people know hot to do special effects and animations in their videos, which is awesome because the video looks fantastic anjd it's really fun to watch.
3.people also find their pets meanignful, which i think is really important because animals are just like humans, and people should care more for animals if they don't already.

My Meaningful Video

1. I have decided to include my pictures of my friends, family, my cat, school, and artists/bands I like in my video.
2. I chose not to include meaningless pictures in my video, preferring to stick to things that are meaningful to me.
3. I would have liked to include more pictures of my family, but unfortunately I was having a problem with my camera so I couldn't upload anymore pictures of them.
4. I used two questions to decide if something was meaningful to me the question, how important was that subject to my life. I asked myself the question, would I be able to live without it? For example, I asked myself how important my family and friends were to me, and decided that they were very important to me because I would not be able to survive without them in my life. Those are the questions I based my decisions about what to put in my video on.
5. The pattern that I find in things that I find meaningful is is that they mostly include people. For example, my friends and family are both meaningful to me, and they are all people. People are meaningful to me because I can relate to them, because they have emotions just like me. It’s harder to relate to animals or non-living objects.
6.I think that it is a honest description of my life, because it shows me in school , hanging out with my friends, spending time with my family and cat, and listening to music, which is all things that I do almost every day. I think that my life in interesting and special to me, but I don't know what others think of it, hopefully they would agree with me.
7. I think my life does seem meaningful from an outside perspective, because I think that most people find their friends and family meaningful, and my friends and family are a part of my video. It is also meaningful from an inside perspective because it matters to me and everybody close to me.
8. The question that I have about living a meaningful life is: Why do people question if they have a meaningful life or not? Shouldn't they just take the life they have and most the best out of it, instead of questioning its importance?

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My Meaningful Things from Rachel J on Vimeo.