I chose to make a video because I typically share and pin pictures on social media. Very rarely do I create or share a video. So, I wanted to experiment with compiling both videos and still images together to make a single piece of media that expresses a clear feeling or message.
As a teacher, I feel like this demonstrates that to create, you don't always have to start from scratch. The images and videos I placed in this were all gathered over the last year and a half of my nephew's life. I used things that I already had to create something new. Also, this illustrates how much of a difference music can make in a video or other source of media. If I had put a faster song to this, the feeling evoked in the viewer likely would have been very different. I had a clear goal when selecting the length of each video clip, the starting and ending of the song, what pictures hit what section of the song and the order in which I placed the pictures and videos.
I felt like I had a lot of freedom to mold this to be what I wanted. I want my students to be able to feel that same freedom. In order to make this easily transferable to students, I used an app on my phone, called Flipogram, to create this video. It was very straightforward to use and didn't require a lot of extra time to get the desired result. When I posted this video, I posted it with the following hashtags to further emphasize the point of the video: #BeingAuntTay #LiamAnthony #untilihavemyown
It was adorable to see your interactions with your nephew. Because there are a lot of mediums involved with your project (video, still images, music, and flipogram) I wonder which one you intended to celebrate or critique?
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