Journal Report #2

Wow. There is my report. After watching Killer Entertainments, I don't know what more to say. After seeing the first person view of the fight in the War on Terror its hard to write much more But, unfortunately I know that won't cut it. 

 

So here it goes.

The Journal entry done by Jennifer Terry, was done to show the danger of these uncensored videos of combat. Danger in this case has a few different meanings. First, is the intelligence issue from the government. Intelligence agencies do you want this footage on the Internet and the trouble is trying to track where it came from. Second, is the toll it may take on emotion. There is an extreme lack of censorship on the internet compared to all other forms of media. 

The entry was much more visual than written. While watching the videos, which were jaw dropping, the video would pause periodically and words would pop up. These words resembled quotes, and what I found most interesting, cinema terms. For instance, the words "money shot" popped up when a 500 pound bomb fell on a building and video suddenly paused in midst of the explosion. The definition was revealed after moving the mouse across it. 

To me, the videos were intense enough. The pop ups just added to it. As mentioned in my previous blogs, I play many video games. A level in a bestselling video game of last year was a mimic of the video of the recorded attack from onboard an Apache helicopter. The video shows a person running from a truck and leaving an RPG in field. The gunner then opens fire on the militants. This stirred the most emotion in me because I knew I wasn't watching a video game, movie, or television show. It was real. 

That was the last video I watched after immediately writing this.  The words "money shot" then got to me. Those were people dying. The movies and video games I've watched and played have been taken for granted. It was reality. Unlike the movies and video games, there was no escape from reality. I was stuck in it.