Author: Jordan De La Rans (Page 6 of 10)

My research question is how do films impact people for the better?  Growing up I used to watch a lot of movies with my parents mainly my dad because he had the same love that I did for movies. My dad is one of the reasons I developed my love for movies. I used watch movies like Toy Story, Halloweentown, Home Alone, and many other iconic childhood movies, till this day I have the same love for movies, but I’ve branched to many other genres of movies like thrillers, mystery’s, action, comedy, Sci-Fi and many more. I love going out to see a new movie every few months because I get to leave all my stress and problems outside of the theater for 2-3 hours and get to be fully emersed into an amazing story. For example, back in 2021 in December a movie named ” Spider-Man: No Way Home” had a lot of expectations but when it finally came out it blew the expectations out the water. The experience I had in that movie theater is a once in a lifetime experience that I would love to relive. I’m intrigued in this question because I’ve always had a love for movies, and I wonder how big of an affect they have on other people. In my research in this question what I expect are people sharing their own experiences from movies and how movies have impacted their lives. What I also expect are people sharing their own films and explaining how they were able to make the film and the process during and after a film.  I expect to find these answers because there are a lot of people in this world that share the same love for movies just like me.  I know these movies can have a huge impact on a person’s life and can make people want to be a film maker themselves when they never thought they would be one. If I don’t find any information on what I expected to find I will continue to write about it anyway because I truly want to learn how a film can affect a person’s life and maybe even change it. Film’s might not change a person’s life, but it could change a person’s perspective on life and their opinions on something.  If I’m not able to find what I expect in my research, I want challenge my assumptions and make sure I learn more about this topic.

When I was a kid, I wasn’t interested in school but one topic that always caught my attention was History/Social Studies.  I was so interested by this topic because learning about the past and how the world came to be fascinated me. There’re so many crazy events that happened in this world that are just too interesting to not learn about them and how they came to be.  For example, when I first learned about slavery It blew my mind how cruel this world was and still is I never thought people would have the capability to do something so cruel and horrible to another person just because of the color of their skin.  Each time I would learn more about this world’s history I wanted to always ask questions so I could keep learning about certain situations about how they began or how the situation came to an end, or even how some of these events would affect the modern-day world. Now that I’m older I haven’t found much interest in the topic as much as I did when I was younger, but I still keep up with current events in the world because we need to know what’s happening in this world and how it can affect us now or in the long run. Over the past few years, I would say school has changed my curiosity but in a good way. Growing up and learning all these new topics made me want to learn more outside of school.  The curiosity I gained over the last few years made me interested in new hobbies like video games, sports, films, photography I would’ve never thought I would be curious in those things.  As I lost interest in the topic of History, I found my love for sports. I fell in love with sports because the excitement and nervousness gave me a feeling I never felt before. There’s something about playing and watching the sport you love that nothing in this world can beat that feeling. I can say curiosity has helped me a lot as I grow and learn more about this world and myself.