The place I visit everyday (Project One)

There are 7 core values in the United States Army: Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless Service, Honor, Integrity, and Personal Courage. They are the values I try my best to live by being a soldier, so when we were assigned this project of finding out the history of a building on campus I thought to myself “What better place could there be than the building that represents these values than Lindley Hall, which is the home of Army ROTC (Reserve Officer Training Corps).” Now I know you might be thinking that what it holds now is the present not the history, but I want to look at the history and find out how Lindley hall became the most important building in my college career. As I further researched this hall I had to think about how to put all the interesting facts about it into my promotional piece. I thought about how I should theme my promotional piece. This part was very difficult because Lindley Hall has been around for so long, and has changed so much. In the end I hope I did Lindley Hall a favor by making the audience see how interesting in it, instead of them thinking it was just another old crappy building on campus.
I would like to start off with the bad part about making my promotional piece. Obviously making a 6 minute video would frustrate anyone, but the annoyance was there from the beginning. At first I wanted to do a power point for my promotional piece, but I soon realized that would be harder than I though. I appreciated all the sites and resources you gave us, but it was very hard to find history about Lindley Hall. All I had to work with were the pictures in the library archives, and a page on Lindley Hall today with the smallest paragraph briefly explaining the history of it. I was on my last nerve with my research until my one on one meeting. It made me think about my promotional piece from another angle, and even though I was still set on making a power point I felt better about the way I was going to set it up, but my whole project was about to change from a little walk to class.
It was Friday morning, and I was inches from not going to class. After putting myself through a guilt trip I was up and on my way to Bentley. On my way I thought I could get a little motivation from my iPod so I put on one of my favorite songs “I will hide myself away” by Cartel. Just hearing this song gave me goose bumps, and that’s when it hit me. I thought to myself if this song brings up emotions like this in me I’m sure I can make my audience feel something. Of course I couldn’t ad a song to a power point so I knew I would have to make a video which has the same idea as a power point ;however: I believe it to be a lot more moving if you do it right that is. So after finalizing my thoughts about the medium I will use to deliver my message about Lindley Hall I had to figure out who my audience was going to be.
Going into this project I had a pretty good idea about who I wanted my audience to be. At first I wasn’t very creative. I wanted to promote to a typical college student; however: after changing my promotional piece to a video I started to get a little more innovative. I kind of wanted to appeal to everyone from a little kid to a college student who might be interested in ROTC, and maybe even an older individual that attended OU. I put in a picture to go with every text so that even a small child could see how Lindley Hall has evolved over the years. I put the song in the background obviously because of the way it made me feel as I stated earlier, but it is the style of music people my age listen to so I was hoping it might make one pay more attention to my video because they may want to listen to the song the whole way. Also I added the extra info about ROTC which shows what kind of things I like and find interesting. Generally I wanted to put my audience in a serious mood. For the younger pre-college viewer I wanted them to feel the history of OU, and maybe make them really want to learn more about this great institution. For the current college student I wanted them to feel proud about the school they went too. For example the part of my video that talks about the riots against the Vietnam War might make them see that Ohio University students are very free thinking and righteous individuals. Lastly I wanted the older viewers, or alumni think back to the greatest days of their life at OU, and I wanted them to see how this college is getting better and better through the years because the people that came before me created the OU that I love today. In the end I hope I succeeded with my goal of making Lindley Hall look interesting. I hope my promotional piece shows my audience how I feel about this campus, and that I hope it shows the hard work I put into this project. To me time is one of the most important parts of life, and I am happy I got to go back into it and see the creation of the place I visit everyday Lindley Hall.

Promotional Piece

Place

I believe that wherever we go we always have relationships with our enviroment. We have a relationships in the sence of how we effect our place. We also have a relationship in the sence of how it effects us. To me there might be a lot of people in one place, but they could all be in their own place. Their own place in life, emotion, and thinking. For example when you get angry or unsettled in your enviroment someone might tell you to go to you happy place. To me this whole idea of place is very important. I belive that our sence of place can detirmine our mood, attitude, and decision making. For example we might make diffrent decision or be in a better mood when we are in our dorm instead of class, and that is visa versa. Lastly I strongly believe that our place can show people where we come from, how we were brought up, and how we live. Because we all might be in the same place but we each customize it to fit our personality, wants, and likes. That is why I believe it is higly important we all have a sence of place, a number of placesesto go too, and that we can read other people from their sence of place.