Chloe, Frank, Maya, Aedan, Vernika Express Myself! Videos

English Post                                    Chloe Bartlett

As we were watching the videos, we learned about everyone’s interests and how we can accept each other for the way we are. we learned that even though we are completely different, we can still have a lot of interests and be friends. By learning this we can understand each other and we can look at each other as equal.

Our video is about how we share some of the same interests, and how we are similar but different at the same time. We learned that even though we are different we understand each other and look past our outside appearance and see we are similar. We may like different genres in books, but we all like reading. We all like to watch TV, but different shows. These are just a few examples of how we can be similar.

My video is about my interests, which is basically just photography. I love to take photographs and that is what the majority of my video is. The few pictures of me with my friends are only there because they are my closest friends.

What I learned during this unit is how much some people enjoy certain things. The things that were in everyone’s videos were, in most cases, completely different. Even though we all have different interests, we have still found a way to accept each other and respect each other.

As I did my Express Myself Video I learned a lot about myself. Even though I am quite opened about any topic I realized as I was choosing which topic or characteristic I wanted people to know about me I came across some that were uncomfortable to me. I wanted to overcome that issue in order to show  people my story and why I like the things I do.

I know my past and I know why I do things, but I never sat down and explained it before so it felt like I was channeling through events and development throughout my years. I needed to choose which ones were important to show people why I like drawing, anime and video games. Picking where to start off was confusing in the matter because I had so many things that happened to me when I was younger. I then thought I should start when I was diagnosed at four years old. I felt uneasy telling my class about this because I feared they would look at me different like how my past classes did. Then I told my friends about it and they saw me as the same person. I then felt more comfortable about placing it in my video because I knew my condition is the reason why I am like this today and my friends wouldn’t judge me.

What my express my video really means to me is how life passes by. My video is a short 2 minute slideshow of pictures of me growing up. In a way this video is the timeline of my up and coming life. What I learned from doing this project is that its ok to open up to my classmates and know that I wouldn’t be judged by my lifestyle. I also learned a lot of interesting things about each one of my classmates weather it was the littlest things as having a little sister or brother or the biggest things like losing a parent or having a heart condition.

My video was about me and what things that I like and describe my self by.

In my video the first thing that i had was a starting screen/slide that looked like it had a spy theme and I had a spy theme song in the background. This symbolizes my love for spies, spy games, and spy movies such as james bond.

Next was a picture of Mac N Cheese which is my favorite food.

After that there is a picture of one of my friends with a photo shopped balloon head. This shows my liking of messing with pictures and for my liking of company because I don’t like being alone anywhere doing anything.

The next two pictures show two of my 5 favorite videos games of all time showing my love for video games. The first picture is the logo of destiny along with the word destiny. The second picture is of the logo of

Team Fortress 2 along with the logo and all 9 playable characters behind them.

One of my favorite childhood books is shown in the slide that follows. it is the cover of a graphic novel by Doug TenNapel called Earthboy Jacobus. This represents my affection towards graphic novels, anime, and any book with pictures.

MAGIC THE GATHERING are the only words on the next slide. The two slides that follow show two of my rarest and favorite cards that I own from the game. Magic the gathering is a card game that I have played with my close friends for years. this shows my liking for card games as well as board games.

The next slide is one you don’t want to look down in if you're afraid of heights. It shows me rock climbing after being peer pressured into doing it by my little brother and my dad. P.S I’am scared to death of heights.

After that it rolls on to two different pictures of me and my bother representing my love for family.

Throughout this whole video project and all the essays along with it, I realized what truly defines me which is eating, friends and family, games of all sorts including video games, my liking of books with pictures, making peoples heads look weird in pictures, and my great fear of heights.

Before this project I don't think I was ever forced to think about what truly defines me as a whole so I’am somewhat thankful for this project