Sunday, March 25, 2012

Progress for Final Project on Active Minds

So far I have spoken with the person who started Active Minds, Kevin Cannon, and he is going to ask if anyone would like to be interviewed for my project on Tuesday at the group’s meeting. I am going to interview Kevin this week or next on why he started the group. I have also viewed footage of the event “To Write Love on Her Arms” held by Active Minds last semester and am going to incorporate that into my video, along with photos of the event. The beginning of my video will consist of statistics about suicide and depression. I found this info and these statistics from the following websites:

http://www.suicide.org/suicide-statistics.html#2005

http://www.afsp.org/index.cfm?page_id=04ea1254-bd31-1fa3-c549d77e6ca6aa37

http://www.onlineschools.org/blog/suicide-stats/

http://www.cdc.gov/ViolencePrevention/suicide/statistics/aag.html

http://youngadults.about.com/od/healthandsafety/qt/suicide.htm

http://www.hopkinschildrens.org/Depression-Lack-of-Social-Support-Trigger-Suicidal-Thoughts-in-College-Students.aspx

http://www.tnhonline.com/2.3536/unh-reflects-on-rising-college-suicide-rate-1.396155

http://www.upliftprogram.com/depression_stats.html

http://www.depressionstatistics.org/

http://depressionhelpspot.com/depression_statistics.html

http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2010/09/02/statistics-about-college-depression/

http://www.teendepression.org/stats/depression-in-college-students-statistics/

In the next couple weeks I plan on interviewing Kevin and others from Active Minds and starting my video in iMovie including a black backdrop for the statistics. I am considering doing voice recordings for part of my project to play while the statistics are being shown. I am going to wait to incorporate the rest of the footage because I want to see how it’s going to transition smoothly first.

Sunday, March 18, 2012

How to play the intro to Blink-182's "What's My Age Again"


Sorry about the ending, it got cut off by a few seconds when I was transferring the video to my computer!