This film is about my life journey from leaving my native country of Panama during the U.S. invasion called Operation Just Cause to remove Panamanian Dictator Manuel Noriega.
Film created using iMovie
Audio editing software was Audacity
Sound clip – Gunshots – Creative Commons Audio
Background soundtrack music was provided by Studio Youtube and the song is called “Floating Home” by Brian Bolger
Panamanian National Anthem was provided by Creative Commons Audio
Still Photography – Jillyann Sanchez-Herman
Images of the Panama Canal, Military Tank, Burning Building, Dictator Captured, End of invasion were downloaded from Creative Commons Image Resource, US Army and the Salt Lake Tribune.
Synopsis: This is a story about a necklace passed down throughout the generation.
Content & Creation: This video project was created with HitFilm Express. I created the title slides and the end credits using Microsoft PowerPoint. The images and the video clips used in this project were obtained from Pexels and Openverse. All audio assets are Creative Commons assets downloaded from Freesound, with the exception of the narration. I also recorded the narration myself.
Synopsis: Little Drummer Boy is the story of a young child learning how to become a better drummer. It starts with his first introduction to a drum set to him playing with a live band and church.
Content & Creation: This project was created with Movavi Video Editor. The video and images were shot with a canon 70d. The images, audio, and video clips were created and taken by myself.
Losing a loved one to cancer was very hard for me. Even in a extremely negative situation there can be good that comes from it.
Content and Creation
This project was created with iMovie, including the creation of the title slide, credits, and voice-over narration. The images and the video clip used in this project were from pexels. The music used were from bensound.
Synopsis: The portrayal of women in the public space has morphed and evolved since early depictions in film and media. A woman’s life is a complex and beautiful journey where she shows the world that she can be complicated. She is kind, warm, sexy, intelligent, determined, depressed, enraged, reliable, forgetful and everything in between. Life’s journey isn’t just for the woman herself, but also for everyone who witnesses her life.
Background: I used all externally acquired footage and audio. There were no media elements that I either shot or recorded myself. I used Adobe Premiere Pro to create my video story.
Synopsis: This is the story of how painting became a part of therapy for me during a hard time in my undergrad. I am not an expert and enjoy painting as a hobby and a way to cope with hard and difficult times. I chose this painting because it is simple yet doesn’t follow the traditional “painting” way, enjoy!
Important: I shot, recorded, and created most of my media assets. All images, videos, and sound effects are created by me. The painting was inspired/ tutorial followed by a creator on Youtube. The only asset that was used not of my own is the music.
Software Used: All images, title slides, and end credits were edited on Canva. The images were taken by me before the painting began. All video, sound effects, and narration were edited on iMovie.
Synopsis: This video details the story of how my parents met, fell in love, and had me. It is told through old family photos, and set to a backdrop of the Renaissance Fair.
I used family photos, some of them edited by me, and created the ending credits in Canva. I used my iPhone to record the voice-over audio, and iMovie to stitch the video together.
Assets
Vintage Minneapolis Minnesota Postcard – The Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Joe Haupt CC BY-SA 2.0
“The Maiden Lane” copyright Gypsy Guerrilla Band 2009, used with permission.
Synopsis: During rock climbing, a young girl flipped upside down on the rope and was helplessly stuck. As a mountain guide in Colorado, I had to repel down and rescue the stuck customer.
Content and Creation: All images besides the last four photos are from Flickr with various Creative Commons licenses. The others are from my personal photo library copyrighted to me. The narration is self-recorded and all other audio elements are Creative Commons assets found from Freesound. All visual and audio content was created or edited using iMovie.
Synopsis: As a veteran and sailor, I have had adventures for many lifetimes. Those came with downsides also, and years of life at sea take their toll on your mental health. Many years went by before I got help, but I am on the road to working on myself. I don’t say recovery because you can never go back to where I came from, you can only work forward.
Background: I spent many years living and sailing the world’s oceans. I have suffered mental health decline and struggled hard to get through where I am today. I’m sharing this today because I don’t want it to be a stigma and I want people to see that I am not some stereotype of a character of a symptom. It has taken years of experimenting with medication to get to the point where I can be almost done with my Master’s degree, even though I want to give up almost every day. Not from it being too hard, but lack of motivation to do anything. Most days I want to just sleep on the couch, which I have read affects your mental health also. As tired and worn out as I am, I get up, most days and go to work and come home and do my homework. There are a lot of downtimes though, as I don’t have much time for hobbies, a lot of it is sitting in silence, listening to another one of my disabilities, tinnitus, ring in my ear. Sometimes though, I remember to put on the record player and get lost in the music for a couple of records and do nothing but let my mind go blank. It’s a reprieve from the everyday. I guess some folks will use meditation, I use this the same way.
