I made a visual video that consists of various pictures of me growing up to enhance the matter of fact that I have grown up with a heart problem and have had many surgeries. I decided to do my blog about my heart problem so I could speak about my surgeries and show myself growing up. 

I decided to use pictures of me growing up because I wanted the video to feel like a documentary. I love watching documentaries about people. In documentaries, when information is given about the person, they put pictures of the person and narrate their life. I really like that concept and I thought it would be perfect for my project. I also thought having pictures of me growing up would be better than doing an interview. It would be awkward if I just stared at the camera and talked about my life. I reshot the video and added more pictures. I reshot my videos because the first time I made them, I had not stabilized the camera and was shaking. This time I made sure to use the technique provided in the readings. In my draft video, I used the 10-second method but for this video, since I used an abundance of pictures, I was not able to. I did stay consistent with using Jumpcut transitions. At the end of the video, I made the video fade to black to let the viewers know it was the end as well as saying thank you for watching the video.

In the video, I used pictures I had brought to WSU and some that I found when I went home for Thanksgiving break. I refilmed my videos in four different clips. I used the same audio from the draft video. I mainly used the cropping out tools to edit out parts of the audio and visuals I did not want. It was still hard to precisely cut out the audio and make it sound like I had not cropped out parts. I was messing around with the editing column in Premiere, and that is how I discovered the fade to black edit. I decided to add it at the end so all of my video would not just jump-cut frames.

The first three pictures in the video were taken by Lisa Dorsing. She had given me a USB drive with the pictures and told me that I could use the pictures however I wanted to. The fourth picture was taken by my mom and I had asked her if I could use it for the video and she allowed me to. The rest of the pictures were taken by either by me, my mom, or random strangers. I made sure to ask my mom if I could use the pictures she had taken. Also, I made sure to ask the people in the video if it was okay that they were in it. I know I did not really have to do that, but I thought it would be courteous.