Trevor Phillips

           This blog is going to be about my favorite character in the videogame Grand Theft Auto Five. His name it Trevor Phillips. Trevor used to be a military pilot before the military de-commissioned him due to "Possible" psychotic outbursts. Afterwards, he met Michael Townley and started preforming heists to, what else, make money. After a heist gone wrong in the town of North Yankton, Trevor sees Michael get shot and gets ordered by the bleeding friend to run away and leave him to die. Trevor Phillips, the now depressed, lonely psychopath, cooks meth in the area of Sandy shores in San Andreas. He is prone to extreme violent outbursts and killing people at will. After the incident in North Yankton, Trevor learns that his friend, Michael, died that night and his friend, brad, was arrested. After a few years if living in Sandy Shores, Trevor saw a news report of a jewelry store robbery in Los Santos. The man they were interviewing had remembered a quote that one of the thief's said. "You forget a thousand things in a day, let this be one of them." A quote, which Michael Townley used often. Angered and outraged by finding out his mourned friend was alive, he set out to Los Santos to find him. 

Rip! A remix manifesto media analysis project

The filmmakers main idea behind this video was supporting the idea of taking peoples work, may it be videos or music, and re-using it. This film is very much so biased. Throughout the whole film, the director supported fully the idea of no copyright laws. My argument in this fantabulous piece of writing will be supporting both copyright and non-copyright ideas. (We all can't agree on the same thing, so why not agree with both, eh?)

I will talk about two different story elements to show how bias the director was on this copy-WRONG subject. *Pause to slap your knee* One story element used is called mood. Its the overall feel of whatever you're watching or reading. The mood behind this video (I'll put a link to it at the end) is anger. Throughout the movie, the director talks about how his favorite artist for music was a band called girltalk.  The director was irritated by the fact that all that girltalk did was illegal according to the government, causing this video to be made in protest against copyright. The second story element I will talk about is called a rhetorical question. Now, how many times have we responded to someone's question to find out that it was rhetorical?                                                DARN IT! You were supposed to think about that! A rhetorical question is one you are supposed to think about. The director in this case, used rhetorical questions to let the viewers think about copyright and copy-LEFT directions the video chooses to go, and not just be texting throughout the whole video.

Now, for the final part of this essay, my own argument. Before I go on, however, I want to strictly state that this is my OPINION, my whole OPINION, and nothing but my OPINION. As always, I try to see the best of both sides of the argument. So, I believe that copyright is needed, but should be less strict. Yes, we don't want people stealing other peoples music or movies, but then again, those people who made the videos have made quite a lot of money from them, otherwise they wouldn't be popular enough for people to have the motivation to change or re-mix the video itself. Why not make more money from it if that's the problem? If your music video or just plain video gets a ton of profit and someone decides to change it up and make something that even more people like, try striking a deal with those people. You could make twice the cash. Now, as for being against copyright, I myself like mixed music. The people who make the mixed music or videos put a lot of time and work into them, why say they aren't allowed to do something they are good at? That brings me back to what I said before. There's a lot of money to be made, why not make it together instead of screaming, "MOMMY!!!!! HE TOOK MY VIDEO!!!!!!" or, "MOMMY!!!! HE MADE MY SONG SOUND BETTER!!!!!!"
Post in the comments your own thoughts! Thanks for reading!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lWZLFkmqAE    <===== The video

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