Audio project analysis

My audio project is a real triumph of the heart. I’ll be real, more than anything it was pushed by a desire to catch up on my work to relieve mental strain. So, let’s break down what I was thinking when I wrote and created this. First of all, it is a lot of rambling. I’m fully aware of that and that it comes across as something that I didn’t put much effort into but frankly it was rather hard to create for me. Working past the mental strain and struggling to post something that I’m not entirely proud of is honestly hard work in its own right. Not pretending that I think that I need a pat on the back for doing the assignment, but I do think in terms of reflecting on my work process since this is a processes class it is something, I’m proud of managing to get the work out.

This project was a stream of conscience audio project. I won’t pretend that this was my first choice, as I said I’m aware that this isn’t a phenomenal project but it’s what I was able to make. That being said stream of conscience is a completely valid and real form of media. I mean the history is there. Look at any play, movie, and television show. Monologues are essentially often just a stream of conscience and that doesn’t take away from art. And I still managed to use silence and all that other jazz to tell a story in a sense so I gave it a shot 

So looking at the content I start off talking about Mia Khalifa and her life, background, and her struggles. I genuinely believe that Mia Khalifa is an incredibly intelligent and kind business woman and actress but society has been so cruel to her. She is a joke wherever she goes. It’s truly a struggle for me to understand how someone who has so many accolades and makes so much fantastic content is still just regarded as a sex object. It all falls back to the stigma about one women, and two sex work. The porn industry is one of the biggest entertainment industries with thousands of hours of content being uploaded and consumed on the internet daily. According to Pornhub’s annual analytics “It's impossible to ignore the top-level stat: that Pornhub averaged 81 million visitors per day (28.5 billion visitors for the year), with 24.7 billion searches performed. That's 50,000 searches per minute, 800 per second. The global community was active as well, with over four million videos totaling 595,492 hours uploaded. If you were to watch that much porn in a continuous fashion, your eyes would be locked onto the screen for 68 years.”  Almost everyone participates in the industry in at least a consumption sense however we don’t speak about it. Even with people you are extremely close with you don’t speak about it in public. This creates a sort of stigma that if we can’t talk about it publicly it must be bad, meaning that people who are involved in the creation of it must be bad. All of that to say this is why Mia Khalifa is running into issues. We know that Mia Khalifa is a former porn star, but we didn’t know that was all she was ever going to be seen as. She does so many other projects now and has spent so much time away from the porn industry but she can’t break away from that despite her being very vocal about wanting to be. This is why most of my stream of conscience is about Mia Khalifa not being able to escape her past. She has spent an entire career trying to change her image but maybe sometimes we just can’t. I think Mia Khalifa is a perfect example of how your past does define you despite what everyone tells you. People want to believe you can be whoever you want and change to be your best self but that’s a lie. We are constantly haunted by our mistakes. I talk about how I want to get away from my past but I can’t I am often haunted in college by my own traumas and perceptions of who I am and how poverty defines me. I’ve come very far from my past but here I am still haunted by those things. This project was ultimately just a discussion about how Mia Khalifa is a great reflection of people and their inability to get away from the past.