Video Review

1. The first video I couldn't choose, because it was required. I chose the second video "A World Inscribed: The Illuminated Manuscript" because it seemed interesting. I was reading the summary on the side of each video to choose which one to watch and I saw this one included the invention of the printing press which I found very interesting in the chapters we have read. I chose the third video "Cairo Museum" because when I was younger I was very interested in Egyptian life, especially mummies, and the artifacts from that time. I saw in the summary that this video dealt greatly with Egyptian artifacts.

2.  Key concepts that I found interesting/learned were:

More Human than Human
- a representation of ancient past is Venus of Willendorf
- may have represented a motherly figure
- Nomadic people created their art (statues) with exaggeration, but ignored some features
- Living in Ice Age made them exaggerate fat and represent fertility because that's what they desired\
- Egyptian style never changed because they wanted the imagery to last forever
- Egyptians obsessed with order, therefore their style didn't change
-Culture is kind, values of society is how we depict the body
- Greeks believed in many Gods and Goddess's
- Greeks fixated with the body
- Gods took human form, and were perfect
- If you looked good, you were good
-Realities are exaggerated, which dominates our world today
- We don't like reality

A World Inscribed: The Illuminated Manuscript
 -Monks were fighting the devil with ink
 -Writers write so that the future may learn
 -Monks were to write what happened during their time
 -One Monk made a book, just to be able to write in it, then teach his writings
 -Their thoughts were scribbled in the books because they were not allowed to speak
 -Scribal errors were not to be made, because it would be transferred throughout the years in the text
 -Finishing a book called for a celebration, the scribes were allowed to add their own message in the end after copying so much
 -Printing press replaced scribes after about 50 years
 -Printing presses ended an era

Cairo Museum
 - opened in 1902
 -Contains the most artifacts in one museum on earth
 - 5,000 years of artifacts
 - contains 160,000 artifacts only half are on display
- the basement is full of hidden treasures
- difficult to decide what to put on display for the new exhibition

3.
The videos relate to the text because they talk about what we read in the text. All of the videos were about the ancient forms of art and writings, the video allowed us to view and listen to what the text also explained. The videos were able to go more in depth explaining ancient art than the text. The videos gave us another way to learn about what we read, the text and the video played off each other explaining to us what ancient art was. In the Cairo video it gave us A LOT of examples of what the Egyptian artifacts were.

4.
I really liked the videos, they allowed me to view and listen to what I was learning, which is a better source of learning for me. The videos related perfectly to the text which made it easier to watch and understand. I really like that the videos gave many examples and images of the artifacts and the art from that time.