HW 38

For my "cool" video, my group and I made several different classroom scenes depicting a "cool" student played by Chris Roldan and the other characters were Kiana, Elias, and Juliette as other students. In one clip, Chris is seen walking in the hallway and other students are lining up against the wall and they all say hi to Chris but Chris, who is walking in a "cool" way just ignores them. In another clip, Elias, Kiana, Juliette, and Stephanie are in a student council meeting talking about various fundraising methods for Haiti and all of a sudden, Chris walks in talking on his cellphone and behaving in a rude way. Chris acts like he is too good for everybody but then he contributes a good idea to the table and everyone realizes that maybe he actually is smart and isn't that mean or rude. In the next clip, Chris is getting in the elevator and a fellow student, played by Jen has a lot of books in her hand and is running toward the elevator but Chris doesn't care and just closes the elevator door on her. Another clip shows Kiana drinking water from the water fountain and Chris and Elias walk by and start checking her butt out and one of them grabs her butt so she slaps them. In the last clip, Chris is walking down the hallway and knocks books out of the hand of a fellow classmate played by Victor. Elias, Juliette, and Kiana are leaning against the wall gossiping about Chris and as Chris walks by, we all call him a jerk and Chris gets mad about it.
1. The idea of "cool" that is integrated to this art project is that the "cool" guy is considered to be the mean one who clearly thinks he is above everyone else and can treat everyone however he wants. He behaves openly nastily and thinks everyone likes him when they don't.
2. The part that I contributed to the project was that I was one of the actors in the skit and I did some sound effects for the slapping scene.
3. Yes, I think art is cool because it is one way to express yourself and what you are feeling inside. You don't only have to show your beliefs/ideas/feelings in words-you can do it in more creative ways. I think that art stops being cool when it is just obviously meaningless or if if it seems to be done for show not feeling. It is sometimes OK to do things that don't have meaning but my opinion is that art in general should be meaningful but not pretentious.

*VIDEO WILL BE UP SHORTLY*