In Class Writing

I enjoyed the videos we watched today in class. They were called Everything Is a Remix and they were pretty interesting. The videos put a lot of things into perspective that I did not know before. I did not know that a lot of things were “remixes” or “copies” of other things. When we were taught in school about who made the first computer or light bulb or all of those things, we were taught the most famous people but we weren’t taught that they were just better copies of the first one. I was really surprised to learn that what I knew about Henry Ford was different, I knew he did not start the automobile or automobile parts but I was taught that he created the assembly line, but in reality he just put that with the two other things to produce cars faster. I think a lot more people should watch these videos because it really teaches you a lot. It was neat to see him take the beat of a really old song and show other songs that it was in after that as well. I am sure it took a lot of time and research to make these videos and I think they are pretty neat. I thought that it was interesting to see how movies really related with each other and how 50 movies can kind of take a part in the making of just one movie. Like when he talked about Star Wars and how it had so many parts in it that resembled so many other movies. It makes sense though because like he said, a person has to kind of copy and look at other great works to make theirs just as great. It takes real talent to start from the ground up, all on your own and I don’t know if anyone can really do that.