"Where the Towers Stood" by Sara Newens by Benjamin Thomas https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4 Ask Great Questions en-us 2021-09-08 13:20:43 UTC 2025-11-02 04:58:53 UTC hello@padlet.com What emotions did you experience while creating this? zoey_ziobro23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725185228 2021-09-08 15:06:29 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725185228 kayla_mcintyre23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725185267 Was she trying to propose contrast?]]> 2021-09-08 15:06:30 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725185267 When you showed the first family and how they spoke a different language, was there a reason behind it? gwyneth_brickey23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725185534 2021-09-08 15:06:34 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725185534 Why show everybody taking pictures of the memorial? andrew_stawski23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725185761 2021-09-08 15:06:38 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725185761 kaitlin_gau23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725186032 What was the significance of including smiling and laughing people while they were at the memorial?]]> 2021-09-08 15:06:44 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725186032 eva_yentsch23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725186456 What's the importance of showing up-close and "personal" shots of all the people?]]> 2021-09-08 15:06:51 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725186456 What was your 9/11 experience? jack_blum23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725186500 2021-09-08 15:06:52 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725186500 kayla_mcintyre23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725186567 Why show so much diversity?]]> 2021-09-08 15:06:54 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725186567 Are children purposefully chosen in response to the stories of 9/11? jaiden_skeens23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725186687 2021-09-08 15:06:56 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725186687 alessandra_liparot23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725186711 Why include the clips of many people walking to work?
Is this to show that anyone of them could have died had it been them walking to work that morning?]]> 2021-09-08 15:06:57 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725186711 What other approach might you have taken on this video? zoey_ziobro23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725186783 2021-09-08 15:06:58 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725186783 What was the question of the window washer supposed to mean? gwyneth_brickey23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725187174

]]> 2021-09-08 15:07:06 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725187174 kayla_mcintyre23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725187661 Why use real-life conversations?

]]> 2021-09-08 15:07:14 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725187661 Why show people showing disrespect while visiting? Smoking, Taking pictures, People not paying attention zoey_ziobro23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725187860 2021-09-08 15:07:18 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725187860 What did the author try to emphasize by showing people going to work? jaiden_skeens23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725188089 2021-09-08 15:07:21 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725188089 matthew_campagna23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725188440 What is the significance of showing lots of imagery of people using their phones at the memorial?]]> 2021-09-08 15:07:28 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725188440 what was the significance of the people being distracted by the window washer samuelschroll23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725188572 2021-09-08 15:07:31 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725188572 emily_lagunes23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725188665 was the diversity of languages/cultures shown purposeful? ]]> 2021-09-08 15:07:32 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725188665 mahri_antongiovann23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725188760 Why did you choose to end the film with the janitor cleaning everything and a blurry image? If you had to give it an alternate ending what would it be?]]> 2021-09-08 15:07:34 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725188760 ashleypalomares23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725188988
  • Much diversity but why? Why include diversity?

    • ]]>     2021-09-08 15:07:39 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725188988     Why show so many different cultures? zoey_ziobro23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725189003 2021-09-08 15:07:40 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725189003 violet_kidd23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725189230 Did you have to ask every person you video taped if you could use a video of them in the documentary?]]> 2021-09-08 15:07:44 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725189230 nicholas_buckler23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725189292 Why did you choose to make this documentary about the 9/11 memorial? Does it have significance to you?]]> 2021-09-08 15:07:45 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725189292 Why choose the transitions such as the people walking to work? What does that symbolize? zoey_ziobro23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725189642 2021-09-08 15:07:52 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725189642 eva_yentsch23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725189847 Did you have to ask for people's "consent" to be filmed? (because some people were asking a little disrespectful and in general)]]> 2021-09-08 15:07:54 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725189847 kaitlin_gau23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725190170 Why did you choose to include so many people taking pictures and using their phones/cameras?]]> 2021-09-08 15:08:00 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725190170 olivia_kuranda23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725190240 -what is your personal experience with 9/11?
    -What details in this OP DOC were important to you and what is their underlying message/meaning?]]>     2021-09-08 15:08:01 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725190240     What was the purpose to include the parts where people were looking up at the window washer? jonathon_barrick23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725190371 2021-09-08 15:08:03 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725190371 ashleypalomares23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725190434
  • Why include people's daily commute in this film? By doing this is it meant to show ignorance towards the memorial?

    • ]]>     2021-09-08 15:08:04 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725190434     alessandra_liparot23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725190543 Why were the children chosen asking questions? 
    Is this because they represent innocence and purity when such an awful thing happened?]]>     2021-09-08 15:08:06 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725190543     violet_kidd23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725191107 How did you get those birds eye view shots?]]> 2021-09-08 15:08:17 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725191107 mahri_antongiovann23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725191167 How did you choose specific camera angles and music for the op-doc?

    ]]>     2021-09-08 15:08:18 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725191167     Why did you not begin with videos from the actual day of 9/11? zoey_ziobro23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725191493 2021-09-08 15:08:20 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725191493 nathan_pfeifer23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725192227 What was the importance of focusing in on the foreigners talking about 9-11 in particular?

    What was the significance of no music?]]>     2021-09-08 15:08:34 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725192227     Why did you start with content from today instead of in the past? zoey_ziobro23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725193109 2021-09-08 15:08:50 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725193109 What's the importance of isolating all the sounds in the video? jonathon_barrick23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725193252 2021-09-08 15:08:53 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725193252 Did you purposely choose to show people and their own lives? jaiden_skeens23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725193502 2021-09-08 15:08:57 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725193502 What was your plan b or rough draft ideas? zoey_ziobro23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725193897 2021-09-08 15:09:05 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725193897 alessandra_liparot23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725194293 Why include the boy talking about the window washer? Is this to show one of the many distractions taking place?]]> 2021-09-08 15:09:11 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725194293 kaitlin_gau23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725195345 Why did you choose to include eerie music/sounds in the background of seemingly normal situations/conversations?]]> 2021-09-08 15:09:28 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725195345 mahri_antongiovann23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725195555 What were you trying to illustrate for the viewer with the high contrast scenes between groups of people at the memorial? ]]> 2021-09-08 15:09:31 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725195555 emily_lagunes23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725196563 why capture parents educating their children on the topic?]]> 2021-09-08 15:09:48 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725196563 alessandra_liparot23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725206387 Why chose to show people of different cultures understanding the significance in stark contrast to Americans being disrespectful?]]> 2021-09-08 15:12:36 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725206387 alessandra_liparot23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725212475 Was there any intent to illustrate that Americans are unaware and ignorant when you created this?]]> 2021-09-08 15:14:37 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725212475 What was the purpose of including different cultures? andrew_stawski23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725214159 2021-09-08 15:15:09 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725214159 Why did you choose that ending? zoey_ziobro23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725214267 2021-09-08 15:15:11 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725214267 kaitlin_gau23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725214707 Why did you include the man trying to pick the woman up?]]> 2021-09-08 15:15:19 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725214707 What does the pool represent? Why does it create a sense of emptiness when the water falls in the black void? jaiden_skeens23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725215029 2021-09-08 15:15:25 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725215029 What is the meaning of the end? gwyneth_brickey23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725215533 2021-09-08 15:15:34 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725215533 kayla_mcintyre23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725215719 Why chose to put the Janitor at the end?]]> 2021-09-08 15:15:37 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725215719 How come there was such a wide range of reactions to the memorial shown in the video? jonathon_barrick23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725216554 2021-09-08 15:15:54 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725216554 Why show the "back cracking" couple? nathan_pfeifer23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725217145 2021-09-08 15:16:05 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725217145 MUST ASK: bthomas16 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725218811 2021-09-08 15:16:35 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725218811 what was your process in choosing the people you did? andrew_stawski23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725218814 2021-09-08 15:16:35 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725218814 ella_henrikson23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725219488 Why did you add in somber scenes right towards the end of the video?]]> 2021-09-08 15:16:47 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725219488 Please Ask: bthomas16 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725219676 2021-09-08 15:16:51 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725219676 What was her motivation to make the film? abigail_gonzaque23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725220467 2021-09-08 15:17:06 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725220467 eva_yentsch23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725221466 What is the importance of kids in the video? (like teaching the next generation)]]> 2021-09-08 15:17:24 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725221466 evan_younge23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725221874 Why did you create this video in the first place? What sparked in you that made you want to display modern society's view of 9/11?]]> 2021-09-08 15:17:31 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725221874 matthew_campagna23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725222187 Is the cinematography supposed to act as a reminder of how people looked or reacted to 9/11?]]> 2021-09-08 15:17:36 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725222187 If we have time... bthomas16 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725349393 2021-09-08 15:56:25 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725349393 considering this is an opinion piece, what opinion were you trying to present with this? isabelle_kattar23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725618313 2021-09-08 17:34:05 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725618313 james_durcan23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725620516 Do you think it's wrong that this is a tourist attraction?]]> 2021-09-08 17:34:57 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725620516 Music Choice vincent_honer23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725622531 What made you decide to restraint from adding music to the film?]]> 2021-09-08 17:35:47 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725622531 We noticed that there was a very wide variety of ages, races, and reactions. Why were these topics so broad? Why was there such a wide variety of these things? olivia_madalinski23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725624854 2021-09-08 17:36:44 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725624854 Why were the two men talking about the train station and Spain architecture included? It does not really seem related. morgan_duffy23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725625494 2021-09-08 17:37:00 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725625494 Tell us about your process in making this short film. olivia_madalinski23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725638882 2021-09-08 17:42:09 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725638882 In this class we study argument, when you were making the doc, what argument did you have in mind? james_durcan23 https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725639119 2021-09-08 17:42:15 UTC https://padlet.com/bthomas16/trfpb9efumhxmje4/wish/1725639119