Guiding Questions for Video/Writing Project 1 - Self

Guiding Questions for Analytical Writing Around Video Project 1

Meaningless:
Under the heading “DESCRIPTIVE” please write 300-600 words on the following 3 descriptive questions. Under the heading “ANALYSIS & INSIGHT” please write another 300-1000 words addressing the following 5 analysis questions.

I encourage you to add in other thoughts that seem relevant as well as answering the questions – and also if you’ve thought about a question 3x and it still seems boring or repetitive, skip it or twist it..I suggest that you write a first draft in word, print it out, revise it, give it to a friend to make suggestions, revise it again, and then post it up. This writing should be in the same post as your video – the video should be embedded in the writing.

GUIDING QUESTIONS - DESCRIPTION:
1. What have you included in this video?
2. Which parts of the video related to relatively meaningful aspects of your life? Which parts related to relatively meaningless aspects of your life?
3. What would you have liked to have included but weren’t able to?

GUIDING QUESTIONS - ANALYSIS & INSIGHT:
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?
5. Is there a pattern in what you find meaningful or meaningless? What are some of the elements in that pattern?
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?
7. Does your life seem meaningful from an outside perspective? Is it from an inside perspective? Why?
8. What questions do you have about living a meaningful life at this point?

AWOL:
Under the heading “DESCRIPTIVE” please write 300-600 words on the following 4 descriptive questions. Under the heading “ANALYSIS & INSIGHT” please write another 300-1000 words addressing the following 4 analysis questions.

I encourage you to add in other thoughts that seem relevant as well as answering the questions – and also if you’ve thought about a question 3x and it still seems boring or repetitive, skip it or twist it. I suggest that you write a first draft in word, print it out, revise it, give it to a friend to make suggestions, revise it again, and then post it up. This writing should be in the same post as your video – the video should be embedded in the writing.

GUIDING QUESTIONS - DESCRIPTION:
1. What have you included in this video?
2. Explain how different parts of the video relate to your way of life.
3. What’s seems good about your way of life? What’s bad? What’s neutral?
4. What would you have liked to have included, that is important to your way of life, but weren’t able to?

GUIDING QUESTIONS – ANALYSIS & INSIGHT
5. What’s going on with your way of life? What seems to be the general pattern or direction or point or situation?
6. How do the good, bad, and neutral in your way of life fit together?
7. Does your way of life seem like a “typical American Way of Life”? Why or why not?
8. What aspects of your way of life seem really interesting to you – you’d like to think about them more deeply, figure out how this sort of thing developed historically, what’s going to happen to this aspect of your way of life within your lifetime? What questions do you have about these really interesting aspects of your way of life?