Group 6; Haniah, Maddi, Mukhtar, Dan and Salina Express Yourself video blog post

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The motivation and inspiration for the development of our video was mainly to show the audience that being different is no reason why people can’t be friends. And the video clearly shows that we are all different. We all have different places we want to be in the future, different jobs, careers, religions, environments, and families, but what we do have in common is a common goal to get somewhere in life and be successful. In the video, it was noted that our society is the biggest influence as to how people are treated because of their differences. But at Science Leadership Academy, the diversity is the most important, this school is teaching us that yes we are different, but if you actually take the time out to realize that we have something in common then our society would be a better place as a whole. Working together on this project was difficult only because we didn't know how to merge our similarities and differences into one good product, but it was done, and I think it was done pretty well. The last thing is that, I think the process was the most effective than the actual product because the reasoning behind each picture is a powerful message, even down to the songs that were put in it. What inspired our We video group project, was our differences. And that should be what anyone learns in life, and what brings anyone together. So what the people/audience should learn from this video is that we may be different, but some of those differences can bring us together as friends, family, acquaintances and classmates.
Haniah: We express ourselves based on our personality, mood, or our interests and hobbies. Because I think that our parents like to dictate everything we do, I think that kids have a hard time finding ways to express what they are feeling or what they like. Another thing is that people sometimes are feeling a certain way and they don’t know how to release it, so they choose to do it in not the best way. So its important that you find a way to do so. Rather it's music, art, the way you dress, any kind of activity that doesn't cause harm to others. So I guess what I'm trying to say is that, there is always someone out there who could have the smallest similarity with you, and just like that, you have could have some connection. I firmly believe that in my video I displayed a good complexity of who i am, and the ways that I express myself. When people watch I my video, I don’t want them to remember me as just that black Muslim girl. But also want them to remember me as that black Muslim girl who wants to go to Stanford University, or who wants to be an Obstetrician, and the girl who loves food, and her family. The biggest thing that I learned is that yes, even though it's wrong that people judge you, its going to happen regardless. But ultimately, you can’t let the negatively be apart of who you are as a person. You need to find something that hasn't been influenced by someone else negatively and make it a part of who you are, just make sure it truly makes you happy.

Salina:There are many reasons why we express ourselves. For example We express ourselves so that people can know who we are. Not only just that, but also so people can know what I am about. Furthermore, what My interests are and what I pride myself in. In the end, I express myself because I feel as though If I don’t then people won’t know the real me.

Throughout this video, we will have expressed the complexity of ourselves in this videos in a few ways. For instance, we have put our interests in this video. Such as poetry, art, shopping, “selfies” and etc. We also shared our family and friends, some new and old. Furthermore, we put all of are religions which based around Christianity and Islam. In conclusion, these things are what we felt that we needed to share so that people could have a better understanding of who we are and how we are all friends.

I feel like I have learned many things while completing this project. The reason I say this is because there were many things that I didn't know about my friend. For example, Maddi was Christian. I didn't even think that Maddi had a religion because she never talked about it until we all discussed it. Also, I never knew that Mukhtar was an artist, so doing this project let me get to know my friends even better!

Mukhtar: When I first came to this school I only knew a few people, mainly people from my soccer team, students in my advisory, and two classmates I went to elementary and middle school with. I was glad to see that in my advisory I had an old friend from elementary school and I was glad to see her because I had so much to catch up on, with her and tell her how life was at my old school when she left. I was also glad to see another classmate who I knew would be at the same school, but I wasn't sure if we would be in the same classes, I was glad to have multiple classes with her including english where we sit at the same table, and her name was Haniah Jones. From then on their I met the other students at the group table, I would go to school with, for the rest of my four years at SLA, those students were, Daniel/Dan, Maddi, and Salina. We may have, have different personalities but, we still came together as friends/classmates at school. So what inspired me to do this  we video group project, was our differences, we all have different places we want to be in the future, different jobs, careers, religions, environments, and families, but what we do have in common is a common goal to get somewhere in life and be successful. It doesn't matter what age you are, you could still have goals in life, big dreams about things that you want to do. We are all humans no matter what, and it is basic human characteristics to believe in yourself, and your own self goals. That's what really inspired me about this video, is being dreamers, believers, that we could become anything we want. And since we all believe that, and have goals in life, thats what brings us all together.

What people should know about the video to fully understand it is: We may be different, whether racial, background environments, language and our interest in life. Some of those differences can bring us together as friends, family, acquaintances and classmates. And that should be what anyone learns in life, and what brings anybody together in this world .

What I have learn from this project: From this project I learned that there are things that I didn't even know about my group classmates, but as I asked questions, and wondered why, I found out things about them that I didn't think they would be interested in doing in life. You find out things about people, by going through trials to know who they are.


Artist Statement

In showing my video I hope to show people my video I hope to show that I have always been the happy goofy person I still am today. As you can see in my baby pictures, especially the one with pudding all over my face you can see my silly behavior. Growing up and still to this day I don’t want to be or ever become a negative person. When I was little a lot of time was spent at the beach, like the picture of me playing with the sand and at my grandmothers house. I love my grandmother will all my heart and still to this day look up to how amazing and strong she is. Mama is her name and when i was small she watched my brother and I everyday.

After being that smiley happy little girl, my life changed forever when my parents divorced. To be completely honest I would consider myself a “daddy’s girl” and not having him there with me was very sad. On top of losing him we stopped seeing my grandmother so much because we didn't see our dad all the time and she moved. Living without my dad was hard, but living with my mother was even harder. If I had to guess, I’d say something broke inside her the day they got into that big fight. She became so evil and she never changed, she never will.

In present time I live with my dad and my stepmom and I’m really happy where I am today. I have a wonderful baby brother whom I adore and love seeing his face everyday. Madeline Kelly is a happy person who really enjoys making people laugh, acting like a kid and hanging out with friends and family. I love who I am and what makes me who I am. I’m proud to be me.


Dan

In my artist statement i want to express myself my showing the person that I am I can do this by showing the audience my interest ,hobbies , and games I play enjoy all of these because it connects me to my friends. I feel that me playing with my friends can from a connection with them and make us bond together, another interest that i have is playing sports  this also makes me express myself by showing people what i can do and how much i enjoy it for example when i first started playing football i thought I would be bad at it but after i made bonds with my teammates and made me feel comfortable with them and this overall made me better at the game. The last major interest that i have is comics i feel that this is one of my favorite hobbies because every since i was little i always had a love for superheroes and their powers the fact that someone can run faster than the speed of sound or lift up millions of pounds is amazing to me and I always wanted to be like them to conclude my artist statement i wanna say that what we have interest in can make us who we are

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