Comments on: # 3 youtube videos-personal essays

By: Stacey

Stacey — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:11:32 +0000

hey

By: awebs02

awebs02 — Tue, 13 May 2008 14:47:03 +0000

I also picked this video. I thought that it was a good example of a personal essay. I never connected it to Good Workers, but I like your connection! I like how he reflected on first wanting to learn to play the cello, and then put all of his love from that (not ever really doing it) into his new love for the guitar. It really said a lot about him. I thought that the last line was really great to pull the whole video together.

By: vagelec625

vagelec625 — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:40:34 +0000

I think the first film was a decent effort at a personal film. It was similar to Good Workers because the filmmaker talked about how important the guitar was and how to know him you have to know his music. I think it is great how different personal essays can be from each other.

By: kmiddleton

kmiddleton — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:32:12 +0000

Sara—these are really interesting pieces! Your connection to the “good workers” essay is right on. Here, it seems to me, the filmmaker finds himself in a different instrument. Do you think his question is something about the connection between identity and music?