Intended Consequences blog #5

In Rwanda, in 1994, Hutu militia committed a bloody genocide, murdering one million Tutsis. Many of the Tutsi women were spared, only to be held captive and repeatedly raped. Many became pregnant. Intended Consequences tells their stories. See the project at http://mediastorm.com/publication/intended-consequences

In 1994 more than 800,00 people were murdered in the Eastern African nation of Rwanda. it started the day after their president was killed in an airplane crash. For a 100 days the militia group were targeting all Tutsis. In the first week more than 60,000 of them were killed. They wanted all of them to perish. They wanted all of them dead, and they didn't care how or where they did it, or what they did to them. They would rape the women and kill them or leave them to die. They would beat them and in most cases they would impregnate them and give them the diseases they were carrying. After 100 days the killing stopped and over 1 million people were killed.

Style Wars

Style wars a movie created in 1983. It was filmed in the Bronx. During the time of the making of the film a lot of the Bronx was being burned down and destroyed because the poverty level was extremely high. People would burn down their houses for money from insurance, and before burning their houses they would sell whatever they could that people would want to buy. Also during that time they were blowing up a lot of the Bronx as well to make the Cross Bronx Expressway. This movie basically was showing that a lot of society thought that graffiti was vandalism and to most that did graffiti on public property was just "tags". But to a lot of people who do graffiti its a passion and its something they love to do that has a lot of meaning for them. It also showed us how these kids and adults got their names around everywhere putting their names on train stations so that everyone could see. It also showed us how their dance influenced graffiti and how dance was part of their everyday lives.

My Multimedia Film Topic

Adoption is a major problem around the world. So many children are put up for adoption everyday. The rate of adoption and abortion have grown over the years, because people are constantly having babies. The birth rate has increased as well. With these rates excelling, so many kids are either put into an orphanage adopted or aborted. 
 
My group would like to focus on the topic adoption. I feel like adoption is a huge problem that isnt put out there enough. So many people face losing their parents or feeling unloved because their parents didnt want them. Their left with these thoughts that their not good enough. I really wanted t base our film on this topic because i feel it would be going into a direction not many people are willing to go. I think its a very emotional topic and i think this can be a real eye catcher.

I guess I'm hoping for our viewers to be more mindful about protected sex, or sex in general. I want teenagers to really think before they act, most aren't ready to raise a child, I think no child should raise a child! So many girls i know that were my age have either gotten multiple abortions or they've already had a kid, and its hard for me to see this because I don't think girls my age wake up every morning thinking this is how they wanted their life to be like, so young and already with a child. Your so restricted, and your not really able to maintain an education and care for a child.