Vegas

For this project we have been learning about the cold war and specifically the effects of nuclear warfare. The driving question for this unit is how is fear used as a political cultural and defensive tool? What evokes more fear than a nuclear bomb? We have read and watched a large selections of media about nuclear warfare. We read fallout which is a fictional depiction of the possibility of a nuclear fallout scenario of a bomb being dropped. We also watched The War Game a documentary of the world wide effect of full scale nuclear warfare. This helped us understand the effect of the bombs not from a physical sense but a cultural sense. So these examples can easily be related to how fear is used as a cultural political and defensive tool?

For our video project we had to relate that question to something on the field study in Nevada and Arizona. Nevada and Arizona is home to a large portion of the US nuclear program so we could of done something on that but we decide to take a different spin on it and talk about the most famous city in Nevada Vegas.

So me and my partner Nash made the statement. Las Vegas Casinos fear of becoming irrelevant as you can gamble anywhere has lead to a change in vegas to focus on shows and attractions. This project was a video essay so the first step was writing an essay.

https://docs.google.com/a/seycove.ca/document/d/12KZUVUqmGzDKYWeMWJSUMmOwu9SCPlmGpgTom2lcw7E/edit?usp=sharing

 

So we took our essay and made it into a video. So our base idea was to follow the story of our essay and create interesting visuals.

Our video turned out ok it had its flaws and its ups and downs. It had great info and a strong message but the video entertaining bit seems a bit underwhelming. That is a little bit of miss fortune on our side as Nash’s phone broke and we lost all our photos and videos from the trip.

Finally our Video