Our Content Nation

People nowadays can't live without internet, without this invisible interaction because they're everywhere.

In China, there is a website just like Facebook, which is called "RenRen" net. It is, according to "Content Nation", "a social-network punlishing". Once you input your personal information, you can track down your friends, your schoolmates, your ex-schoolmates, and even someone whom you've never met but have some special connections with you. "It enables people to build and use relationships with others". I felt so excited when someone I have lost contact with for a long time became my friend again, through RenRen Net. Do you have the same feeling?




Here is the website of the Chinese version of Facebook. Welcome to check it out~
http://www.renren.com

Another amazing function of social media is Personal markets. Online shopping greatly changes our living pace and style.I still can remember the first time when I buy something through the internet. I felt so nervous because I was afraid that I might be frauded or the stuff was not what I wanted. I checked out the website for thousands of times, comparing the product from one online seller to another. But nowadays, the online shopping system gets more and more mature and comprehensive. We feel safe and convenient to buy stuffs before we actually see and touch them, before we talk to the seller face to face.

"Social media's influence may be broad or narrow, long or short,but it's value almost always benefits more from people who want to be ahead of other people than from those who are trying to catch up with others."

The function of social media is enormously powerful, and infomations we get indeed do us a great favor, but sometimes they can be wrong and mislead us. That's why we also need to discriminate and discern right from wrong.

my movie-- extra-normal

This is my first movie. Thanks to our group members' great and extra-normal creativity, we came up with this crazy idea. It made me think of "Spider man"...
Anyway, we also had another short movie about interviewing a job, also very interesting.


Xtranormal is a great website, it helps those who have no knowledge of movieshooting and editing, like me,  make their own movies. It's really fun, and I am going to try some more times and work out my own idea. Maybe I will post my movie next time.

My Progress

It's really exciting that my group think that my idea of interviewing kids on what they wish to do when they grow up is interesting. They took my idea, and expand it into a more thoughtful one: not only interviewing kids, but also ask adults about their dreams when they were young and see how many of them realize their dreams. It's a little amazing and pity that the other group came up with the exact idea, but we will try our best to make it the best we can do. I think it's the process that matters most~! Hopefully, we can end up having a pretty cool movie.

Right now, I am looking for the music that we may use as sound track or background, or transition. I still haven't gone to the place where we could borrow the flipper or camera. One reason is that I had a crazily busy week. The other reason is that I can't find so many local people to do the interview, because my acquaintances are basically all Chinese. So I want to wait and see if I can work with my group member.

It's fair to say that I haven't really started. But my group will have a discussion this Sunday afternoon in the library. We will check the videos we take, and divide them into groups. Our next step is depending on how much progress we have.