So for my second video assignment for the week I decided to create a “Where do you want to go” (3 stars) video which is a video made up of pictures of a place that you would like to (or are planning to) go. I chose this assignment as one that I could incorporate Lawrence and Victoire in so here is the backstory.

Lawrence is falling very hard for Victoire and she barely wants to give him the time of day. He has never felt this way before and he feels that she could change the man he has been for quite some time now. His behavior, his attitude, everything about him is changing…even his view on women. He decided he wanted to do something nice for her so he planned a surprise trip to Eagle Beach, Aruba for her. He thought the beach would be a nice place to get to know each other better and have some alone time away from all the stresses of work and what not so he took time to do this for her. It’s a beautiful place and he hopes that it will maybe sway her mind about him.

I chose to do this assignment because I like making videos like this. I like combining a bunch of pictures and putting them to some background music as a slide show. I especially liked doing this one because I’m a HUGE fan of the beach and I would absolutely love to go somewhere like Aruba. For now, I’m settling for Florida but I definitely want to visit as many beaches as I can in my lifetime.

For this assignment Where do you want to go? I would love to and have dreamed about going to Ireland. I just did a bucket list for my friends Inter Varsity activity and my first thing was to travel the world and most importantly go to Ireland first! I am Irish and most of my family from my dads side were born there and just knowing that much makes me want to go and visit so much more. Not only would it be awesome to go to Ireland to learn about my family it is BEAUTIFUL! When I was doing this assignment and looked up photos of this place I fell in love even more than I already was, I knew it was pretty but this place is breathtaking.

For this project I first went onto Google to look up the photos to use for the video, and then I went onto Youtube to find music that fit with my location. Once I got those items; 8 photos and one song, I had to find a website to make my video and put it all together. I found a website called Stupeflix Video and then I put it all together so I hope you enjoy

Here is my video: IRELAND

For my third video assignment I decided to change it up a little bit. I did the assignment called Where Do You Want To Go (3 stars). The original version called for pictures of the place you wanted to go to and music that had ties to that place. I remembered that I had to incorporate The Wire into one of my assignments this week so I decided to do pictures from the series.

I had to go through multiple episodes to find the pictures. I really tried to grab pictures of the most important characters and that probably was the hardest part. I used a screenshot editor called Skitch to grab screenshots and crop them and that was really tiring. I had a specific order that I wanted the pictures to be shown in in my head but it didn’t work out like that. I used the Youtube slideshow maker and that randomized all of my pictures which really wasn’t a bad I thing and I actually think it helped a lot. I waned to use Baltimore club music but I could only use what was given so I went with old school funk because it fit the best with the slideshow. I think it came together really well. Check it out and let me know what you think.

I made this video for the “Where do you want to go” assignment. I loved doing this assignment because all I want to do is travel. I have been so lucky in my life to have gone to many different places: Italy, Spain, England, Wales, etc. etc. My parents provided me with a worldy education to say the least and it created a sense of travel in me. I cannot be happy until I see the world, how others live and what they like. Everything is interesting when it is different: what they eat, drink, what art they have, what they read. Each country has a history complete with different art, politics, books and more. This is what I find so interesting and what I want to learn about. Traveling is about seeing certain places, but also learning about a group of people, and more about yourself in turn.

I have a bracelet with charms of countries I have been to and I love bringing things back from where I travel, and just little things, like scrap booking materials, notebooks and more. With each place I go I make a notebook of ticket stubs, paper scraps and photos, interspersed with notes of what I did. This helps me immerse myself in the place and remember it forever.

I read something the other day in a New York Times article by Stephanie Rosenbloom. She wrote, “There are orphaned things in the world — coins, books, fallen leaves — that when you chance upon them feel like winks from the universe. They are at once the most ubiquitous and intimate souvenirs. “Souvenir” comes from the French word for “remember.” Everything it represents, marks or makes you wonder exists as long as you live and remember. In this way the ultimate souvenir is not a coin. Or a book. Or even a thing as ancient and everlasting as a stone. It’s you.”

It’s kind of sappy, but I find it true. So I put in not only places I want to go to and buildings I want to see, but specific times, like the Christmas festival in Germany, and my favorite bookstore in the world, Shakespeare and Company in France (I have been there but wish to repeat the trip). I put in an airplane taking off noise at the beginning of the video and a landing plane at the end. In between I put in a song from my iTunes that I listen to whenever I travel. It just sounds like an adventure song and makes me feel like I can do anything.

So look and enjoy, and dream like me of seeing the world, pack on back and notebook in hand.

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