"What's wrong with your homeland?"

When i got questioned by the Storytelling professor about what's being signed on the title i confess my first reaction was to say "Everything!", of course. Everything about Brazil is a little bit wrong, a little bit out of place, and sometimes a LOT wrong and a LOT out of place. We have situations in public healthcare, basic sanitary services, packed prisons, terrible people running government, but nothing is as bad as it is when it comes to one aspect that frightens all brazilians.

Violence.

Violence in Brazil starts in the little things of daily life, the metropolitan buses being home for theft, fear and even sexual assault - no matter if it's dark or bright outside. It goes on in the streets, place where using your phone while walking is a complete no-no situation, or rather, being very brave as to not mind the robbery of your belongings.

But it's not just a street thing, violence happens inside schools, in between men and women, inside the household, and even as abuse of power, when police officers humiliate innocent people by force. These are pretty common in Brazil.

I believe that the only way to stop these things from happening would be having the government's attention towards the situation, but sadly they do not seem to care at all about brazilians.

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Commenting characteristics of the art of telling stories

An analisys on Darius Grey's piece, entitled Finding.

The way the creator of this video told the story of his life brought me interest due to the usage of soundtrack and sound effects. During the beginning of the video there is a brief moment in which no image is show, only the sound of a heartbeat 'illustrating' the scene. When the heartbeat gets faster, the narrator is already telling the story of how his heart was racing due to the overdose of drugs he had used at the time he was a dependent. The pace of this story was very relevant for its understanding. 

Other important aspect on the video was the usage of his personal footage. Showing people a bit of his past and some of his current life gave the audience  a higher sense of connection to his previous and current situation. 

The plot was not extraordinary, but was about a person overcoming a bad situation at a young age. And that was the beautiful turning point that made the story rather interesting.

Video found on https://www.storycenter.org/stories/

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