"The Water is Wide"

The story me and Cesar planned out was about how it's so fun during the summer and how we don't want to school start. As the music progresses, we begin to see pictures of people in school. Yes it's still fun and exciting to go back to school (like the song) but summer was just the best. Without worrying about anything. Then as the music begins to sound strenuous, the images begin to show dark clouds, rain, people in school, stress. This represents how when we're already in the school year it's already getting stress, it's that point where we're half way done. Most people can take these images as the seasons fall and winter. Kind of how theres no "life " around like green leaves on trees, flowers in bloom, that sort of thing. And then towards the end it comes out of those depressing images and begins to  sound/ look "alive" again, with the sunshine. This represents spring going into summer. The music definately flows with the images being shown. The sequence of images I'm most proud of are the time length between 3 sec to 1 min 10sec. This my favorite because the effects we used on the pictures are soo perfect and they just look really cool. It shows a great transition between summer and fun to school and the begining of stress in school. I was trying to show how before school starts it's beautiful, kids are more alive, outside having fun to the point where reality hits and you have to go back to the stress of school. I really like how I picked the flowers and sunlight in the begining because it shows life. The images really go well with the special effects we added to them. My favorite picture to see is the bright pink rose iin the begining at 18 sec becuase the effects just look really cool and complex. I think about 95% of our film is basically abstract. There are some pictures where we used different effects to them but mostly everything is abstract. We didn't really have an idea of using colors and shapes to express a mood. While in the process of this video, I remembered about the solarize special effect under abstract button. It's one of my favorites. I'm pretty sure I used that a couple of times. It always looks very well when you add it to a picture. When I was absent, my partner hepled so much. I couldn't have asked for a better partner. When I was gone, he searched many good pictures and he also finished putting all the video together. We both worked on the special effects together but he made a big contribution on getting the video in order and getting some pictures. When I was here, I helped find most of the pictures and really focused on the special effects. I helped alot with the special effects. We both moved this project along very fast and finished early.