“Create a video for someone special in your life and add music to it. Use YouTube or any of the video sites to upload it. First, video tape yourself saying a message about the person your talking about. Let your feeling out, tell them how you feel about them or that your happy about being with them. Second, put music to it. This should be about 3 or so minutes long, nothing major. You combine video, writing and audio.” For this video, I chose to talk about my fiance Ryan! He is the love of my life! I used Windows Movie Maker to make this video. I get camera shy so I’m sorry for the awkward moments.

So, for this Video Assignment, worth 5 stars, we were asked to record a sweet message to someone, so I clearly chose my mom.  She means the world to me.  As she likes to joke around, she brought me into this world and can take me out of it!  The important part of that being she brought me into this world, therefore how could I not be thankful to her for my life?  The smallest thing I could do for her is say a few simple words, and I always enjoy reminiscing with photos, so I had to add a few in!  I will say that I ended earlier than I expected because I can be slightly sappy and caught myself at a loss for words even though I had written some, and I get teary eyed when I tried to speak some of them.  She has been with me through my roller coaster of life.  I chose the song “How Great Thou Art” sung by Carrie Underwood as the background music because our faith has brought us closer, and it is one of my favorite songs to sing with her while she plays the piano.

To do this, I used Window Movie Maker and put a title slide in, then used my webcam to record the video.  Once I added the video in, I added photos before and after to both add length and more sentiment for me to reminisce on some of my favorite memories from my sister’s wedding, to a mission trip to the Dominican Republic my mom and I went on, to graduation.  I then found the song on YouTube and used a website to download the audio and import it on Movie Maker.  I cut it before and after the video so I could allow for the volume to be louder while the photos were being shown and softer while I was talking.  I then put the end credits, and here is my final result originally posted on YouTube!