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Creative Challenge

So a few days ago I got an email from Uni talking about an extra curricular called the 'Creative Challenge' in which a group of students from across all campus' take a creative idea and carry through multiple stages to it's possible creation. Now when I signed up I didn't realise I needed an idea ready to pitch on that day (3 days time) and panicked.

I started scribbling down ideas at around 12am when I had just finished watching Emma Watsons UN speech on Feminism (my last post about it, honestly, it's just a coincidence). The brief was to do something to help people, now my creative outlet is videos and I look up to Youtubers a great deal. One of those Youtubers is Carrie Hope Fletcher, she makes videos about her life and advice videos requested by her teen audience. She also calls herself your 'honorary big sister' so you can write to her about your life and she will reply even though she has over 500,000 subscribers.

My initial idea was to create a network of girls from different backgrounds to just talk about their lives, how they dealt with specific situations and just give and overview on what someone is a similar situation can do. Just be a role model for young girls, main stream media is all about pulling apart young girls self esteem why can't non-main stream media be the exact opposite.  

Now this spiralled into, once again, a political ideology and produced a list of touchy subjects to be made into documentaries and self-help guides.

Pretty deep for a person who was blogging about dragons and magical worlds a few posts ago.

The back of my notebook from 12am Monday morning.

Yes I Skype my Dog.

So I moved away from home just over two weeks ago and I've been Skyping home every few days to catch up with my Parents and my dog. Slowly but surely my Dog has realised that I'm actually in the computer and that I can see her, she's now started licking the screen, giving me her paw tapping the keyboard and dropping her teddies on the keyboard for me to play with her.

Here is a montage of our Skype call last night!

The internet isn’t as safe as it used to be. A rant on Feminism.

I live my life through the internet, there isn’t a day that I don’t check Tumblr/Twitter/Youtube so I’m constantly surrounded by people who have made a living off those websites, meaning they have a rather large fanbase but no real team around them, it’s just them.  Now I have always believed being in complete control of your own work on the internet is by far the best thing however in light of recent events I’ve began to reconsider.

Tom Milsom

Mike Lomardo

Since March 2014 stories about famous Youtubers abusing their position as role models for young fans have surfaced for 20 different people. This is outrageous and it’s starting to hit closer and close to home.

1 Tom Milsom

Accusation: Raping his 15 year old girlfriend when he was 22

2 Mike Lombardo

Accusation: Abusive in a relationship

Alex Day

3 Alex Day

Accusation: Abusive in a relationship, approaching underage girls, non consensual sexual advances

Josh Macdeo

4 Josh Macedo

Accusation: Non consensual sexual advances on underage girls

Kelly Montoya

5 Kelly Montoya

Accusation: Rape and sexual abuse

6 Danny Hooper
Accusation: Rape of 15 year old girl

Danny Hooper

Alex Carpenter

7 Alex Carpenter
Accusation: Non consensual sexual advances on a 16 year old girl, he was 25.

8 Adam Roach

Accusation: Underage sexual abuse, she was 15 he was 22.

Luke Conard

9 Luke Conard

Accusation: Abusive underage relationship, 7 year age gap

The list goes on…..

Recently Sam Pepper and Jason (VeeOneEye) have been ‘outed’ as rapists and sexual abusers but the difference with these guys are, they tried to cover it up.

Sam Pepper

 Sam Pepper made a video where he went around London pinching women’s butts for a ‘prank’, this caught the Youtube communities attention to the point people realised that his past videos (which include lassoing women in the street, forcing women to kiss him on the beach) are also sexual abuse. Sam Pepper however tried to cover it up by saying the entire thing was staged and proceeded to upload 2 extra to parts to his latest video, a behind the scenes film and a vlog in which he explains the entire thing was to highlight MALE sexual harassment. However it seems to be brilliant timing that these two videos appeared after the Youtube community had already blacklisted him.  When Youtube Feminist Laci Green posted an open letter to Sam Pepper she instantly got a huge 100,000 strong following including Youtube big names Hank and John Green. This then made Sam Pepper threaten Laci about making a video on the subject, which she thankfully did anyway.

VeeOneEye

With Jason VeeOneEye he acknowledged that what he did (as described in a video by a victim, Animagas) however he used his Mormon (Seen here in his unlisted, non advertised appology video) upbringing and social awkwardness as an excuse and still tried to act as he did nothing wrong.  However more and more people started coming forward with accusations of rape and sexual advances

Both Sam and Jason now have court cases against them and have been dropped by their Youtube Label.

Personally this hit home for me when a Youtuber I look up too a lot Evan Edinger uploaded a video in which he broke down because he was very good friends with Jason and had done nothing about the things he was doing.  Now I am very much aware that he is not a victim but something I want to bring to light is how people who manipulate people sexually also manipulate those around them.

Now this is about Feminism honest, I am so proud of the self proclaimed Feminists on Youtube standing up for what it right and blacklisting these people from what is essentially a very safe and loving community. Feminists (who seem to be the only social group talking) on Youtube and other social networking sites, who are ENGAGING IN THE CONVERSATION, have been getting hate from Youtube fans who don’t want to believe their idols are flawed or who, sadly, don’t see a problem in what they have done.

Personally I have received a lot of hate on the topic but I am in no way ashamed of talking about it and I can’t sing the praises of the big Youtubers who are also engaging in the conversation, at the possible price of their fanbase, enough. Taking about it is the only way it will be fixed and I urge everyone to learn and listen too as many people as possible on the topic.

A personal favourite, Consent, a Youtube music video by Comedy Duo OMFGit'sJackandDean

                                      

More video’s have been created by big name Youtubers on the topic

Video: Lex made a video about what CONSENT means.
Video: Hank Green made a video about CONSENT.
Video: The Science and Dangers of YouTube Celebrity.
Video: TomSka’s Guide to Gatherings.
Video: Charlie McDonnell: Sex & Consent.
Video: Bryarly Bisop: We Are Edited.
Video: Laci Green: Consent 101.

Video: Lidsey: What is Emotional Abuse? 

Video: YouTuve Abuse Recovery | Ann McGavin (thegeekyblonde).
Video: Sexual Abuse on YouTube | Pottermoosh.
Video: Tell Someone | abb3rz07.
Video: Wrongdoings and Growth in Our Community | Teryn Gray.
Video: UNDERAGE SEX & CONSENT | hayleyghoover

Video: Women on YouTube Panel at VidCon 2014

Video: Marinashutup’s video on the topic.

Now this isn’t a fun post but it was a post I was going to write anyway on my personal blog and I decided the more platforms this is seen on the better - it's also happened to be something that happened in September!

If you would like to read more, there is a Tumblr master post listing links to every accusation, acknowledgement, apology and video here.

Freeblogging about UCA

Strangly enough I did this last night whilst planning for my student interview to be a student vlogger I was talking about how I came here through clearing and didn't really know if it was for me but my college standd by it being a twist of fate written in stars thing because I chose to come heree two years ago and then change my mind but now I'm here so that's good I've really enjoyed my time here so far which I didn't expect to because I'm really far away from home and most importantly my puppy who I'm now actually skyping with which i s a thing a worrying thing but a thing either way I normally don't like places when I start then as seen in secondary and college because I normally don't like change even though a crave it which again is weir dbut my head i screwed up you kind of have to get sued to it to be honest because I can't figure it out either I've met so great people so far and my flat mates are all really nice I did question being on this course however because I'm for a of a film person yet I sat through a 72 slide powerpoint on photography on my first day but I'm still here which is good because I think I'm going to like it when I get into it because this is all the stuff I like and I'm around like minded people I mean I can come into lesson and talk to people about youtubers and they know what I'm talking about which has never happened before I even showed people my Youtube channel which I've kept a secret for about 4 years now which is crazy because it's not actually that bad but the idea of people who don't get youtube watching it terrifiyes me other than that I'm really enjoying the course I'm spending a bit too much money got hit my fresher flu a few days in and learnt that I can't cook and haven't drank much alchol seems like a typical student life minus that last bit I think I am going to like my course though which seems really pesimstic when I think about it because I like it now I just think that I could like it more I am getting annoyed at UCA planing things on the same day I mean a workshop a PAT test and a Creative challenege meeting all at the same time so I plan things within a second so I can get to all of them and then they change the date of the PAT test a few days before yeah don't do that UCA that's not cool I've also ran out of things to write again this is becoming a habbit a bad habit and also spelling habbit with two b's is bad need to get out of that aswell well where do I go from here I've had a pretty good start all in all I've got good flat mates even though one left within a week leaving us with two spare rooms I've international students who like to cook in our kitchen because ours in nicer the upside being we get free food italian people made me pizza and it was the best thing I'v ever tasted even if I did only get once slice because the entire student village found out and desended on my flat

Freeblogging

Oh wow this strange I feel like i'm talking to myself which should be the first sign of maddness but apparently it's not when you are in a creative university anyway I still don't know what to write exactlly but I'll go for it  I kind of want to make a film about baby dragons thatt you have as pets puppy sized drgons would be cute I guess I don't now it' something I've always wanted to make I feelbad about neglecting spelling and gramma right now and I sitll don't now what to write about other than baby dragons which get's a big boring after a while it really shouldn't because come on baby dragons but it does may I should just create a little world in which baby dragons and puppy sized elephants exist, puppy sized everything exists and all of nature is nice to each other and you can frolic with lions and tigers that would be nice better than being stuck inside on a rainy day but then again a magical world would also be nice think Harry Potter without the danger but that would also be pretty boring sorry I've just watched a Harry Potter clip on repeat all morning it's in my head imagine id that world did exist though I stand by that it does and  J K Rowling is actually a witch making a fortune on what is essentially an autobiography I'm back to no knowing what to type but I'll keeping going for it I like the freedom free writing gives you but I instantly want to write about a distopiean world that gives you a great insight to my mind

What scene is meaningful to you?

Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone ‘Welcome, Harry, to Diagon Alley’ Scene

This scene is my go to when asked this question because it’s something that has stuck with me since I first saw it. As I read the books before I saw the film I was really excited at the idea of seeing this magical world that had been in my head right in front of my eyes.

Harrys initial reaction 

When the scene opens you don’t actually see the Alley what you see instead is Harrys reaction to it, this builds up the anticipation for the viewer as you see Harry looking in awe of this location that you desperately want to see. You then follow Harry’s reaction as he walks out revealing more and more of this bizarre, yet exciting world. (In depth description of Diagon Alley)

Hagrid: Here's where you'll get your quills and ink, and over there all your bits and bobs for doing your wizardry.

Diagon Alley Concept Art

It’s bright colours and sheer energy entices the audience from the beginning making the viewer want to see and know more about this area, this initial response by the audience is particularly important when you realise that later in the franchise the audience must feel devastated when the area is destroyed. (Click here to see the Death Eater Attack scene)

Crane shot of Harry and Hagrid

What I really love about this scene is that it immerses you in it. Chris Columbus’ use of POV shots really puts the viewer in the middle of the action.  This paired with the bouncy, light-hearted music (Soundtrack here) in the background you can’t help but feel excited for Harry thus making a very important connection between the viewer and the films main character.