My Home

This week I chose to do a video showing where I use to call home and where I now call home.  I heard the song that is throughout the song and thought it would help tell the story without me have to speak throughout the video. I used a lot of hometown landmarks as well as some video effects (such as adding grain) and also speeding up and slowing down video to tell this story.

Overall I am pleased with how the video turned out. I am still getting the hang of editing and when to cut and how to cut, but I feel like it flows fairly well with the music and I wanted the song to finish with the lyric home when it shows the final shot.  This was mainly shot from a moving vehicle being driven by my wife as we traveled all around my hometown of Madison, WV.  Before the video gets to the city, if you can call it that, you can see a coal mine on the side, which is what made Madison a city to begin with. It used to be quite the city before the coal mines became more mechanized and had to let people go.  My elementary school, middle school, and high school are all through the video as well.  What I enjoy about thinking of home and showing my hometown is that it has changed very little since I left.  It's a simple town with good people, the kind of place where people in other vehicle stop and flag you to go as they throw their hand up.  The first chapter of the video ends with my parents standing on the porch giving thumbs up as we leave, which is how they have always done since I began driving 12 years ago. I intentionally blurred their faces to make it look a little dramatized.

The second chapter of the video illustrates some things around town that we enjoy.  For the last shot I wanted to follow the lyric of the song which is, "I'm gonna make this place your home" because to me a home is a place you feel secure, and where you are loved.  This has been my favorite assignment thus far.

Click the link below for my video:

MY HOME VIDEO