The DS106 Daily Create tdc566 for 7/27/13 was to “Randomly combine unused bits of video to create a surreal dream video with appropriate soundtrack.”

Aren’t these supposed to only take 20-30 minutes to complete?  How in the world can I do that when it comes to video?  I can’t post something out there that I wouldn’t be able to look at myself!  So yes, this video sequence took me much longer than anticipated.  Just gathering the unused video clips took more than 30 minutes.  Video has been my digital storytelling medium of choice, and I’ve got a lot of it.

I wanted to keep the video at about 2 minutes, since that’s about the attention span of an average viewer.  I choose a couple of different themes that I felt told something about my life and representative video clips for each. Then the soundtrack for the entire video was created with the “Synthetic Design 02” audio clip in GarageBand. The final video was pieced together in Adobe Premiere Elements 11 for the Mac. The image strip below was made by taking freeze frame shots from each video segment and using Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 to put them together.

MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE CLIPS & FINAL VIDEOS THEY REPRESENT

• Hubble Telescope Photos [Link to one of the first videos I ever created, “Soul Journey”.  This has a whole series of Hubble telescope photos along with poetry and a hauntingly beautiful soundtrack.]
• Grandson DJ last summer [Link to 2013 Mother’s Day video I created for Amber.]
• Cooking at my Mom’s house out in Eureka, California this Christmas [Link to the video “Cooking With Tangie” created  from this trip.]
• The mouse hanging by it’s tail is from a video clip I made for a scientific paper my daughter was submitting to a journal. (I thought it would be funny to add it to the end of the cooking segment.)
• A trip to Duluth, Minnesota
• A 2010 trip to Europe: Abby Road in London & a street shot in Brussells [Link to “London Town” photo documentary of the trip]
• Music clips of my partner and the band he plays in: The Radio  [Link to the final music video montage ]