Final

For my final project, I wanted to make something out of experiences that I already had. I wanted something that I could look back on and feel nostalgia. When I started to think in that mentality, I started to think about nostalgia and what I did in high school with running and how it got me to where I am today. So, for my project, I decided to make a video, audio, and a poster full of things that kind of “document” a timeline from my experiences in childhood, to high school, and to the present that mostly consisted of my running career. 

The first part I completed was the video. I used an app on my phone called videoshop. This was the most tedious part, because I had to dig through my phone for hours to find videos and pictures that were taken years before. My thumbs probably scrolled a total of 5 miles. I compiled all of the videos and pictures I thought were best and put them into a chronological order timeline and added in text to make a commentary. My stutter really prevents me from making a smooth commentary by my own voice, so I have to improvise. I was pretty content on the message I gave out. My only pet peeve with the video is how it looks on a computer screen on youtube. The pictures are all small on a wide screen, but it looks fine viewing it from the youtube app on a phone or tablet. 

The second thing I did was the poster. I used adobe photoshop and made what I thought to be a pretty cool movie poster for the video. I put a big title and release date at the top and bottom, and in the center I cropped out and cut a bunch of photos also used in the video using photoshop and stuck them all together pretty closely. I didn’t just wildly put them all together on the poster though. I also put a timeline shape just above my name and the release date at the bottom which correspond years in chronological order. The pictures I cropped out and used were also in chronological order from left to right, matching up with the years under them. 

The last and favorite thing I did was the audio. This took me a while to think about and I struggled for a little, thinking whether or not I was going to even use audio and just make a game instead. But I realized that I could extract the audio from my race videos that I had saved on my phone. I went into the app store and downloaded an app that allows you to take saved videos and separate the audio from them. Once I did that and had enough audio, I saved them as mp3 miles and emailed myself so I could access the files on my laptop. I opened adobe audition and messed around with the audio until I made a multitrack with all of the audio playing at the same time. The result is something I think is so cool and really summarizes what the sounds are like during a track race. It got my heart rate going just listening to it.