Synopsis: A boy who always wears his cowboy hat. Does he get through life because of his hat or because of his boyish charm? He will find out one way or another.
Content and Creation: All images are from my personal photo library are 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.
Image Credits:
All photos by Matthew Stoklosa All Rights Reserved
Synopsis: A fictional telling of a child’s first at bat during their first ball game. The story is told from the point of view of the child as they attempt to overcome their fears and succeed at their first plate appearance.
Content and Creation: This project makes use of visual resources provided by Pixabay and Flickr, free for use per Creative Commons licenses. The music and sound effects not created by yours truly came from Freesound and are also free for use per Creative Commons licenses. BeFunky was the Photo Editor used to edit two of the photos provided to give the illusion of eyes closing and eyes opening. The narrative, deep breath sound effect, and umpire sound effects were all recorded by me with Audacity, with credit given to my assistant Brian E. for his given voice overs. The title slide, credits, and video were all edited with HitFilm Express, and exported as a 1080p H.264 MP4.
Synopsis: This story describes the experiences of my husband’s grandfather, Hardie Bonner, in the U.S. Army, as part of the invasion of Normandy, and during his subsequent internment as a German prisoner of war.
Content & Creation: Much of the visual content for this project comes from existing family collections, and the remainder from online content that is in the public domain or available to be used with a Creative Commons license. The video was edited using iMovie for iOS. The credits slide was created using PowerPoint and uploaded into the project as a jpg file. The narration was recorded by Hardie’s grandson, Frank J. Wylie, III. The recording of President Roosevelt’s address to Congress is in the public domain, and the background music is available from freemusicarchive.org under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC 4.0.
Audio Credits:
Voice narration provided by Frank J. Wylie, III (Trae)
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: 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.
Synopsis: My Guardian Angel is a story of grief, acceptance, and triumph. It is only through prayer and the hope of eternal salvation through Jesus Christ the pain of losing a loved one is replaced with peace and purpose.
Content and Creation: My Guardian Angel was created by Deidra Lynn Jones using Win Movie Maker and PowerPoint. Personal family photos were used in the making of this video. All family photos are licensed under full copyright. The narration was my voice recorded with Audacity along with audio assets obtained from Freesound.
Synopsis: There are many people in the world suffering from Domestic Violence. I wanted to bring attention to this subject because of witnessing it while employed at a public library. Content: The video was edited with Adobe Premiere Rush for windows. The title slide and credits were created on Canva. The narration was my voice recorded on Audacity.
Synopsis: The storyline describes a sailor dreaming during a phone call made to his wife during deployment, where he finds out the gender of his second child. A daydream flash of events of his daughter seen through his eyes. At the end, he realized it is time to retire to fulfill his dream of being a hands-on father.
The video is a compilation of still pictures, a personal narration, background noises and audio music media created on Audacity and put together in iMovie.
This is a public domain story about a boy who accidentally kills his grandmother’s pet duck and hides it. He did not know that his sister saw him do it until she began using her knowledge to control him. He finally confesses to his grandmother who tells him she already knew, already forgave him and was just waiting for him to get tired of his sister enslaving him.
Background:
The story appealed to me because it illustrates how we allow things to control our decisions and our lives because we think we do not have any other choice, especially when secrets or failures are involved. I would like the story to bring the viewer to a place of awareness, hope and forgiveness.
Audio Assets:
Story narration by Tina Chalfant Copyright 2022, All Rights Reserved
