a hurricane passes through

this is my second blog unlike the 1st one this one is a lot more specific to a presentation i witnesses presented by hurricane films http://www.hurricanefilms.net/ an there project http://www.peoples-stories.com/ now before the presentation i did have a brief look around their website to see what the company was about having never heard of them before. i found that they had been nominated for a British academy film award this was surprising that they would be willing to give up there own time for free to present a question to students as they must already be successful so how much networking do they need to do? but i did realise that the reason why is that you should never stop networking because you never know when contacts will come in handy.

the presentation was on a project called people stories which was based on the idea everybody has a story to tell. which is very true i my opinion as i am also often looked to tell a good story of what had happened in the week by my friends. so if i usually have a story within a week what kinds of great stories must someone who has live 70 years have seeing the huge changes in the society during the 20th century must have. he mentioned how he found about one person a sound engineer originally from st Helen's then went to university in Liverpool was nominated for 8 academy awards winning 2  who he had never heard of. with this prestige you would imagine he would be much more famous. his name is George Groves i wrote this down and went to research him myself as i was intrigued how someone from the same county as me could find the right breaks to be a Hollywood legend i found this website http://www.georgegroves.org.uk/

During this presentation i was thinking about how this project could make a lot of profit because people will pay to help them be heard. this was in the back of my mind right until when asked about it (his name eludes me right now) the presenter said something i found very interesting he said this sort of thing should be free for everybody to access people shouldn't have to pay to tell a story nor should you have to pay to hear someone elseses. this got me thinking why should you have to pay to find out your own history shouldn't you be entitled to that information? it is your history after all!

now the question he asked is how to you get the older generation involved in new media ways of story telling. this is question i have pondered over the last week an i think that is quite difficult because i find the older generation to be very proud people and having almost completely missed out on the computer age they don't see the need to learn how to use computers now after not needing them before in the lives. also when trying to teach the older generation about new technology you have to explain as slowly an as simplistically as possible now though not intended sometimes the older generation feel as if they being condescended when trying to explain also this is more likely to happen if they get frustrated . which frustrates the teacher an thus the condescention may begin. so in answering the question how do you get the older generation to get excited for new media i found this is a tough question to answer