Marlo Thomas once said, “I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.” That’s true because I loss a loved one which was my Dadu, grandfather, to a rare liver cancer he had. He was diagnosed in 2000 and died on November 1st, 2006. It was hard for him the last 2 years of his life. Everyday he felt pain in his body especially in his legs because he couldn’t walk so he had crutches to help him out. Basically it was like he had to learn again how to walk. It was that bad for him to walk. I remembered he came to America to see my family and I one last time and spend for 3 weeks in 2003. I will never forget those three weeks.

He taught me the lessons to life of what to be a good man like he was and not be rude or mean to anyone. Especially be humble, be thankful to God for everything, and love life everyday. Enjoy it. We had so much fun. He always kept cheating in a game call ludo and I’m like “Wait something isn’t right…” and my grandfather would be like, “Alright let’s keep going!!” so that I wouldn’t find out he cheated. He was the best grandfather I could have asked for. I remember asking him that why can’t he stay longer, and then he gave me a hug and was like:

“I wish I can stay longer but I have to go.”

I was sad but I was thinking I may see him again. At the airport, when we dropped him off with my relatives my mom was crying a lot and I didn’t understood why. I thought I would see him one more time but my mom was like “We don’t know if we’ll see him one more time or not, give him a hug.” I was like:

“I’m going to miss you dadu. I love you.”

I’ll never forget him with the two pictures I have in my room of him:

I hope I’m making him proud that I’m being a humble, friendly, nice, and helpful person to everyone today as he was before. He inspired me completely. I did the music video assignment dedicated to him. It’s worth 5 stars. Here’s the video dedicated to my Dadu:

I decided to do the Video Assignment 1447 for 5 stars.  This assignment gives you the task of making a music video.  I decided that I would make a music video in Memory of my Cousin, Grant that recently passed away.

The first step in constructing this project was very easy.  There is a song “Homesick” by Mercy Me that is so special to me.  I cannot listen to this song without crying.  It is such a touching song.

The next step was to create a folder in which I saved all of the photographs that I was going to use for the video.  I also added to this folder images gained from google images that were discovered under the search phrase “sayings for lost love ones.”  After collecting all of the artwork, I went into piZap and added text to the last photo that I used in the video.

I next opened Microsoft Live Movie Maker.  I added all of the photos and phrases into Movie Maker.  I arranged them in an order that I wanted them in and located phrases in areas that I wished to have them in.  I also added a title page that I wanted to fade away into the photo show. I then added the music that I had saved as a mp3 from Youtube by using the site video2mp3.net. Since the song is 3 mins 41 secs, I added and subtracted the display time on a few of the photographs so that I could make the video exactly the same time.

This is a very special video to me.  I know that no one in our class knows my cousin but I did my best in constructing this video to attempt to show you the incredible person that my cousin was.  He was so passionate about life and loving others.  He loved his sons more than life itself.  He is so missed by us all.  Grant this is for you…

I decided to do the Create a Music Video assignment using clips from The Wire. I was inspired to pair clips of McNulty being McNulty with Adele’s “Set Fire to the Rain” after Freamon asked McNulty if he has to set fire to everything. I instantly thought of the song and knew that I had to pair the two together at some point in time.

I found all the clips on YouTube, as I figured the best of the best would be shared there and it would beat sifting through hours and hours of the episodes we’ve already watched. I also got Adele’s song from YouTube. I used clip converters to get the mp3 and the mp4s. I then imported them all into iMovie and trimmed and arranged them as they seemed to fit.

This is my music video for a classic 90’s song. I made of a video of what exactly comes to mind when I hear this song.