History project

Here's a little something I've been working on in Ben's class:




I also have the video on YouTube with audio if you wish to hear it as well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiTkNss4QIo

Now you may be asking yourselves why I did what I did. I wanted to show what life was like for many Americans back in the dust bowls in the 1930s. I wanted to capture the sense of poverty and economic despair that was sweeping the nation at that time in a simple compilation of pictures of poverty from that particular time period. I chose the particular song for the YouTube version from the audioswap option on YouTube for its length, its evident lack of lyrics and because I liked the way it flowed. I tried to avoid songs with lyrics, mainly because I wanted something that was more ambiguous, that I could more freely use to describe what I wanted to say. In a sense, I wanted to allow the viewer to see the video and draw there own conclusions from it, based off the pictures and the audio track and sort of judge for themselves. If nothing else, I wanted the viewer to come away seeing how much simpler life was for these poverty-stricken people back then.