Idea!

I think after talking over ideas about the movies in class my initial idea about interviewing was not original and I had to think of something else. I think I agreed with Sara about how I wanted to incorporate rhetoric into the movie along with interviews but not want the film to be solely based on interviews. I think that interviews could be supplemental material that would prove our point or argument, but first of all, what argument? I think an argument that could be applicable and interesting would be documenting what students write about the war vs. what they can say about the war, because the two things, though you think about it in the same way, may come off differently through the two mediums. Therefore, I think we could do something in where we have public boards around campus (if that's legal) and have the board say something like "The Vietnam War What do you know?" and other boards that have like "The Iraq War What we're fighting for?" and we could use this as a backdrop in our film as we explore the way people write upon the subject and we could interview people who wrote on the boards and ask why they wrote what they wrote and how they made their sentences and who they thought would read it. Though I think the idea is really more of a backdrop idea, since a movie can't really center around this one event, I think this would really make the debating idea much more interesting since we have a public opinion thrown in the mix.

Another idea that I don't know if is really plausible due to our lack of resources, but if we could, we could document the stories of 4 or 5 different people who have been affected by the war personally or in some way and somehow mix it with rhetoric. I think the idea of a documentary documenting people would be not something new, but something that is interesting to think about, though I don't know how it's incorporation would work out with our rhetorical aspect, but it's just an idea.