Me, Myself, and Nature

For my video project I focused on how nature had a positive impact on my mental health and my overall happiness in quarantine. I expressed my greater appreciation of the outdoors and how that appreciation changed my perspective of nature overall. I got to bond with my dogs and build a better connection with them. I wanted to share my story to encourage others to spend more time outdoors and with their animals.

Making my video was definitely harder than I expected. I knew I had documented my quarantine pretty well through videos and pictures, so I thought the process would be easy to put together. That however was not the case. A video production is a lot more than just putting video's and pictures together. You must match scenery, lighting and video shots. One function that played an important role in my video production was video shots.

I learned about the importance of video shots and its role in conveying my story and creating a professional video. The storyboard  helped me to organize my ideas and create a process with different types of shots. I used a variety of medium shots, long shots, and close ups. I also made sure that all the scenery in my shots matched and transitioned cleanly.

For all of my scenery I made sure I matched all the wooded scenery together with any green scenery and to match the water scenery with blue and white hues in other scenes. This created smooth transactions and let my video have a great aesthetic that reflected the beauty of the outdoors. The Lighting also created a positive emotion association in my video.

The lighting in my video created a light happy hearted feeling associated with summer. I made sure every video was well light and had few shadows. The sunlight also created streaks that highlighted my main focus in each video.

Figuring out how to voice over and create a sound track was difficult. I wanted to engage with my viewers and create a personal video while keeping it professional. Voicing over the soundtrack created a professional sound and allowed me share my story with the listeners.

Overall I feel that my video did a good job of conveying my journey through quarantine. I hope my video inspired more people to go outside and really enjoy life. I also like how I was able to tell my life before and after quarantine. I enjoyed the whole process, especially having to watch countless YouTube videos on editing.