This week I finished all three of my projects. Despite falling ill the first three days of this week, I managed to wrap everything up. Due to my sickness, I lost three valuable filming days for my gymnastics project. While I was sick, I worked on the athletic slideshow. I was disappointed to discover that there was no video footage of any teams except for boys and girls lacrosse. I emailed and asked around to see if anyone had anything I could work with, but sadly, there was not. I managed to find some footage of softball, but the other teams did not receive any video highlights in the athletic slideshow. On Thursday, I was still unsure about what song to use. I would like to give a huge shoutout and thank you to my sister for suggesting the song "Uptown Funk" by Bruno Mars. The music timed perfectly with the video. All I had to do was switch the order some of the clips so that it would look even better. I presented the Athletic Slideshow on Friday, which received many positive reviews from my peers.
To make up for lost time, I went to practice two hours earlier on Thursday to get the last of the footage that I needed for my gymnastics project. I filmed myself, and my teammates performing the tricks and skills that we had previously captured with the GoPro. Over the weekend, I spent Friday afternoon, all of Saturday, Sunday, and until today (Monday) working tirelessly on my gymnastics video. I downloaded all of my footage, and edited it into, what I think, will be an excellent senior project presentation. I also picked out the song "Sand" by Nathan Lanier (ft. Karen Whipple). This song is my teammate's floor music, so I am familiar with the song's strong beat, and intense, yet graceful, sound. I spent a lot of time making cuts to the music to expand the song to fit all four minutes and twenty eight seconds of the video.
Overall my senior project has been such an amazing experience, I'm sad to see it end, but I'm also very excited to show my projects.
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