I took a lot of what I had learned from the still image mash up and from that I was really able to run with it, and pour an extra little bit of creativity into my video mash up. Trial and error, like with most of my learning, helped a lot with Imovie because your imitations are practically endless with all the cool effects a person can use for editing. These effects really helped me capture many of the things I wanted to explore and wanted to make the viewer feel. My goals were to take someone through the decision making choice, the feelings and thoughts that go through a person’s mind when choosing to drink and drive and also to show the possible repercussions of what could happen. I used the ken burns effect to make the viewer think heavily about decisions made (really worked great on the handcuffs slide) and to zero in on the most important part of a certain photo so the viewer would see it as I did. I also used blurry transitions or kind of funky psychedelic transitions at time to literally place the viewer in the driver’s seat; this coupled with the beginning images snapping so fast coupled great to display how quickly things can happen.

Some of the transitions played an important role, such as the blurry effects, but others were implemented just to make the transition from clip to clip or video to make the mash-up have an effortless flow and professional look.

I also played with the audio features quite a bit and while I only used one song, the ducking feature, and at a certain point silence, were used to display the finality of such a dangerous decision at its worst outcome; death.

They are similar in that I believe the same learned social norms and taboos are applied on both sides. Users do not want to see information that is overly personal or controversial, yet some people are drawn to it which is probably why they follow certain people or celebrities. I also think that because Twitter is relatively new, most of these norms were already learned by the majority or Twitter users because other social networking sites such as Facebook and Myspace had already been predominant for some time.

From an outside view, or even the view of most who have Facebooks, Facebook seems an innocent way of expressing oneself through pictures and information about that person. On the underside of this innocent facade is world of information that is much more public than the average user knows and what can sometimes even be harmful to the users themselves. With this burst of social networking more and more people are using social networks in different ways depending on what the site may offer. Facebook, the most popular of these social networking sites, connects itself to the user’s server and literally studies the likes, dislikes and activities of the user, making them a walking, open source for advertising and even more serious consequences such as identity theft. Not only are there the the implications of being followed so closely, but social implications are also a danger to a user who is to “public” on his/her facebook. Within the article Freishtat and Sandlin talk about the study of social implications and the ramifications of how youth act and respond in this new digital age of new social taboos, respect and “unwritten” rules.

This study coincides with the principles of habitus, which is ” the formal and informal curricular components that constitute public education or the ways in which we learn, about learning and about culture in general” (Giroux 1983,88-9).  This is a study in how youth come about the phenomenon of automatically learning the unspoken rules and etiquette of social networking.  The article states also that, ” Public pedagogy is a crucial arena for studying how social norms are encoded, transmitted and taught.” I personally believe that these norms are self taught through time, trial and error. Since the age of the typical facebook user has gotten younger and younger, social norms and taboos are learned over time just as humans have learned through time; by making mistakes.