I wanted to dedicate a post to how I came up with the ideas
for my videos that I have made so far, as well as other ideas that I have
scrapped. The videos I have done so far have been the picture selfie video, the
Abigail West, and the Memories video. Those ideas came to me pretty quickly,
especially the Abigail West one. I knew at the time that video was due was
around Halloween, so I wanted to do something spooky. The selfie video, I thought
of using pictures of myself “selfies” if you will. I thought that was the best
way to portray who I am and it was a good idea for an introduction video. The
memories one was being tossed around with another idea that I will write about
in a minute. I ended up choosing the memories one because I felt that I could
tell a better story with it, and that I would get more out of it. It was a bit difficult
finding the older pictures, but I decided to stick with it, and I am really
happy with the final product. I chose to share that one on my Facebook as well,
and have gotten a positive response on it from family and friends.
The other idea that I was floating around with the memories
one was sort of like a day in the life of my dog. Silly, I know, and that is
part of the reason I didn’t do that one. I also didn’t go with that one because
I was a bit unsure of how to go about it. I didn’t want to just tell my dog’s
life story because that had already been done by someone else, but I also didn’t
really want to do a whole video of what he does in a day – so that idea was
scrapped. I think it would have been a cute video, but my heart wasn’t as into
it as it was with the memories video.
Here are some other ideas I had come up with at the
beginning of the course and why I didn’t go with them. A monologue type video
about change, but I feel like I am still changing as a person and learning who I
am after having been through a few rough years so I didn’t want to go with
that. A video about how my Nana was almost famous. She was a beautiful singer
and had a few opportunities to go on shows and get a record, but she decided to
choose her family instead of fame. I wanted to do this video so bad, but I couldn’t
find any of the home movies we have of her singing which I felt would have
really added to the video. A video about the places I have lived (New York,
Canada, Washington, Connecticut), but my heart wasn’t really into this. The
last idea I had come up with at the start was a time capsule type of video to
myself in a set amount of years. I didn’t go with this because I thought it
might be a bit boring.
Including pictures of the places I have lived to spice this up a bit :)The first is from a Halloween train ride I used to go on in Canada at Stanley Park, BC.
From Mount Baker in Washington
My home state (New York)
And my current state of residence (Connecticut)
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