Using Creative Commons

For our final project, our team is interviewing a spinal cord injury patient named Tom. Our goal of the project is to show to the viewers how Tom lives on a daily basis so that others’ who have a spinal cord injury or know someone that does can see how Tom lives post injury. Tom was an avid skiier which unfortunately resulted in his injury. Now he uses what is called a “monoski” which is one of the pictures I’ve chosen on Creative Commons. It shows that although Tom’s life has changed, he can still ski.

I also found an upbeat acoustic sound on Soundcloud which I think is appropriate for our project. It’s not not a soft slow song, but has an upbeat swing to it. After we film Tom, I think this song will be a good opening and closing song, there are no lyrics.

I found a video on Youtube about the Paralympics, which is a subset of olympic games for people who have suffered from various types of spinal cord injuries. This video takes a new perspective on competing sports. Although a lot of people with spinal cord injuries do not compete, I think it is inspirational. Even though these athletes take to sports for exercise, exercise is an important part of living post injury. Even if if it not cross training exercises  there are still options for people like Tom to play a sport.

My Creative Process for my Midterm Blog

The creative process I went through while creating this midterm blog was an idea I’ve had for a long time that I wanted to see how it would manifest itself in the form of a blog. Although it is a little rough and choppy, I strongly believe in the idea of simple and organic cooking. My concept, Simple Kitchen, appeals to those who enjoy simple meals. This blog I have created will help me both personally and professionally because it allows me to canvas my ideas in a way that will appeal to persons who enjoy simplicity. A recipe like bruschetta, for example, is the epitome of just how good simple tomato, olive oil, sea salt, and basil on a toasted baguette can be. I found the video I used on Vimeo because I thought it was excellent. It was exactly what I was looking for so I tried my best to edit it in a way that would keep its originality. I also included a voice over, to get viewers to identify my voice with the blog so that they come back for the next entry. In regards to the layout, I wanted it to be simple and clean. No dark colors or anything to extravagant, just simple base colors and my header. I knew that I wanted my header to look like the way it is because again, I am striving for simplicity. People remember simple things, not complicated ones. Also, the picture I edited using Pixlr was a way of making sure the viewer knows that this blog isn’t about serious cooking, its about keeping it light and cooking simple recipes using the best, freshest ingredients.