Diversity...

I made this video for a project at school. It's about Diversity and the posters hanging up around the school. Enjoy!



I created my video using Flash. I first studied the Edison posters and picked out a handful of them to use in my video. Then I went through all of my pictures and selected the ones that I thought would portray a good sense of diversity and the different words on the posters. After that I made a layout of an idea that I had in my head of how I wanted the video to look. I thought of what each of the words meant to me and what I could say about them. I wanted it to be something that I thought up and not something someone else had said. I also wanted the pictures to come up with different effects so I tried to use a pattern with the fade ins and fade outs. I wanted some of the main words to pop up with the sayings I thought of through-out the video and all of the pictures I wanted to pop up in a random order. I didn't want the word "weight" to pop up and every picture dealing with weight to follow it. I wanted it to be all mixed up and not such a set static pattern.
I wanted a video that would portray some of the diversity posters hanging up around the Edison campus and also to show how diversity plays a part in my life. As well as open up the viewers eyes to diversity and realize that it's a part of your every day life.
All of the images (besides the Edison posters) were photos of mine with the people in my life. I have a very diverse set of friends and since I know them first hand it's not just Googling images of random people and posting them on a video. I chose the images that I did because they were ones that stuck out in my eyes. I also think they show real emotions, instead of posed pictures by a photographer they're real life, real action photos. Most people that know me well know my love for Michael Jackson. I knew I didn't want a video with no sound so I was trying to think of a good song to have as background music. I thought the "Black or White" song would be perfect for the diversity theme. Mostly self explanatory there, I'd say.
The video I made would be good for anyone to watch, probably more so anyone from the age level of junior high and up. It's a good eye-opener for people and hopefully it makes them think about how they act towards other people a little bit more.
When you watch a video like that you wouldn't expect so much work and time to go into it but it's actually very time consuming. Not to mention the plan you have in your head never goes that way when you try to do it. There's a lot of changing and a lot of rethinking. When I viewed the video on my computer all of the timing seemed to be pretty good but after I published it and uploaded it online and watched it with my Dad on his computer it seemed a bit faster than I would have liked on some parts. Next time I make a video I'll remember to take that in consideration. Most of the other challenges I faced were just in my head. I thought I had a plan for the video, then I'd think something else or it didn't go well together. So there were lots of different thoughts going through my head beating up each other. Another thing I didn't quite like was most of the posters had the "stock photo" label across them so I just had to go with that.
Overall I think the video turned out mostly as I had wanted it to, definitely turned out for the better. If I was ever going to post it on a more serious note there would be a few things I'd definitely go back and tweak up. I'm also open to any suggestions!