The Week In Review: Girls in Activism

This week, we talked about girls in activist movements. We focused primarily on young girls and their impacts on certain movements. A group I was working with focused on Sophie Cruz, a now 10 year old activist who at 5 became a spokesperson and eventual champion for the rights of immigrants. With her pro immigration letter and drawing that she hand delievered to the Pope, her celebration of Cinco de Mayo with President Barack Obama at the White House while her undocumented parents had to wait outside, to her being invited to speak at the Women’s March in 2017 and calling for immigration reform to protect our families, Sophie shed light on a pressing issue this country’s faces and didn’t let her age or her gender stop her on the way to accomplishing the goals she set out for herself. Her story is very inspiring…The second thing we focused on this week was video editing. We used Adobe Preimiere Pro to edit a Pepsi video that was controversial with it’s imagery, exploitation of cultural and societal issues and simple mindset that the world can be corrected with a Pepsi. The commercial used Kendall Jenner, a completely wrong choice for the cover person of societal issues having never had to deal with one on her own, so I edited out every part of the video she appears in. I also edited long, drawn out parts of the commercial to help with transitional flow with the other scenes I removed. I decided to use the second section of music to cover the remaining time of just under a minute as I felt it fit the scenes I selected much better. What wasn’t left after I finished my editing made me feel better about the commercial and provides a more empathetic view for the public.