PROJECT

bonnies project from bonnie b on Vimeo.

Song: "First Day of My Life" by Bright Eyes

GUIDING QUESTIONS - DESCRIPTION:
1. What have you included in this video?
A lot of videos. It starts with videos of my hometown, houston. There are videos of my pets, my boyfriend, my friends, and my parents.
2. Which parts of the video related to relatively meaningful aspects of your life? Which parts related to relatively meaningless aspects of your life?
The meaningful parts are when I spend time with my friends and family. Being with them makes me happy, and isn't that the most meaningul thing of all?
3. What would you have liked to have included but weren’t able to?
I would've liked to include more about music. I also didn't get to include all of my friends because I didn't have a lot of video of them. And I would've liked to include more video of traveling, cause I have to do a lot of that for my family. And writing. And my internship cause thats meaningful to me because it's the only time that it seems like I'm actually doing something relative to my future.
ANALYSIS:
4. What seem to be some of the main criteria you use (emotionally +/or mentally) to assess how meaningful an aspect of your life is?
I used mostly emotional criteria. If I care strongly about something, I feel it is meaningful. If I feel my life would be less interesting, exciting, and enjoyable without these certain things, then I feel it is something meaningful to me.
5. Is there a pattern in what you find meaningful or meaningless? What are some of the elements in that pattern?
A lot has to do with laughter. I find my time with friends very meaningful, probably because we have a very fun time together and we laugh a lot. The same goes for my parents and my boyfriend. It seems I assess meaningfulness according to how happy it makes me.
6. Looking at the video as a whole – is it a fairly honest/accurate depiction of your life? Does it make you seem interesting/special/exciting?
I think it's a relatively accurate depiction, although it is missing some very important people in my life that I simply just didn't have video of. It doesn't have everything that is really meaningful to me (ie; music, writing, etc.).
I think it's always interesting just to see a video about someones life, but I don't think it makes me seem very special or interesting or anything. I think its a very typical video with what you would expect to see in a video- friends, family, boyfriend, pets. Pretty typical and boring.
7. Does your life seem meaningful from an outside perspective? Is it from an inside perspective? Why?
I'm sure it isn't very meaningful from an outside perspective. But from the inside it is meaningful, and I think that's simply because it's my life and it's the only one I have. I have nothing else to compare it to, so on an everyday basis I find it meaningful.
8. What questions do you have about living a meaningful life at this point?
-Is there such thing as a meaningful life?