Listen Up!

Listen Up is a Youth Media Networking site that empowers youth through video production. I found this site to be very interesting because not only was it youth in the media but it was youth producing their own media. Everything is from their perspective and they tell the story, not someone telling a story about them.

I watched several videos on the site, they were all quite interesting.

Under 21: Is a video produced by a female teenager. In this video she interviews her friends and they tell a story about how alcohol has personally affected them and their relationship. This video gave a very realistic outlook on teenage drink and it came from actually teenagers. Two girls within the group were hospitalized from over drinking.

I was confused though because at the end of the video they all sort of laughed it off and continued to talk about partying and smoking pot now.

Equal Opportunity: This film was produced by a teenager and was interviewing an adult who told a story of a gay man who was hospitalized with a terminal illness and the fight his partner had to go through to visit him in his last dying hours.

Rated R: Is a video on violence on the Internet. This video shows many teens being interviewed on Internet violence and why they find it so entertaining. I think this video is a great representation of how obsessed our society is with violence

I found it very disturbing how people found these brutal fights to be funny and entertaining.

Girls and the media: This video is from the 2007 Young intern Program and was produced by three young women. These girls looked into the effect that media had on women. This video was very interesting, one older women talked about how the media when she was growing up gave her very few options.