The Life of a Leaf

My narrative is about a leaf's short life. I got the idea from my roommate and I took it in a more serious direction. In some ways it parallels human life. Our life seems so short and death is inevitable but necessary for life to go on. They leaf starts out as a bud  and grows bigger and older until it falls to the ground. As the seasons change and it gets colder the music builds. It builds up to the spring when a new bud arrives in his place. I linked it with an instrumental version of the song called Sort Of by Ingrid Michaelson. I like the upbeat tune of the song for the beginning because it shows how happy life is. In the end it gets more slow which changes the tone to be a bit more serious. I think the music invokes emotions that the video wouldn't alone.

Failure blog

On the first video assignment, shadow buddies, I recorded a straight 10 minute video on my camera. I thought it would be good to capture everything and I could edit out things that I didn't like. But because the video was so large I was unable to upload it. I had a lot of good shots of the shadows on my camera that Lindsey didn't catch. Luckily Lindsey had enough footage to use but it would have been a better video if I would have taken a lot of short videos instead of one long one. In the future I know to take small videos. They are easier to upload.

I think my biggest success was when I made the abduction video. I just happened to stumble upon the filter that changed the baby voices into alien voices. Before that I had no idea what I was going to do with my audio. After that everything fell into place. I learned from this success that not everything is planned and sometimes things just come to you and it usually ends up better when they do.

If I could have redone one project it would probably be the abduction video. If I could go back I would have recorded more things before. It would have been nice to have more audio to work with. But in the end I was happy with the way it turned out. It could have been better if I spent more time with it but maybe it would have been worse.

Assignment 10

For my narrative assignment I have been thinking of doing some sort of video. I was thinking of taking a lot of still photos of a stick figure drawing and put them together on imovie and make it look like it is moving. It would kind of be like one of those flip books everyone makes when they are in grade school. I am not exactly sure what I want my story to be about. I was thinking I want it to be something that people wouldn't normally think of. I also want it to be a short story because it will take me a long time to take pictures together and make them look like they are moving. Maybe a young man acting nervous and then he meets an older man and asks him if he can marry his daughter. Its something that most men have to go through but not many people think about. I will add some music and certain audio sounds but for the most part I think there will be no audio dialog. I might put some voice bubbles so the audience can read what they say. I am still not quite sure where I will go with this but that is my idea so far.

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Sever and Hang

My words were sever and hang. I choose to use both of them. I severed the shirt by cutting the top off with scissors and then connected the edges with stitch witchery. Then the two ends are buttoned together to make it an infinity scarf. The finished product is hung around my neck. I used at t shirt because I wear t shirts almost everyday. I think its a cool idea to think that my scarf once served a completely different purpose. Since I am majoring in fashion and retail studies I thought it was appropriate for me. Also, I just enjoy making things out of thrift store items.