It took me a while to decide what videos to use because, I had to do research into suitable videos that had to be good enough for me to understand the videos and know that I could use their clips and use them in my video knowing they fitted well to my topic.
I did a lot of background research into foster care as I have a personal connection to this topic due to me being in foster care myself. I wanted to know more history about it such as what was fostering like in the olden days and how much has it changed now a days. In some of my video clips its shows some foster children being treated in the foster care system twenty - thirty years ago and how they are being treated now.
To choose the right videos clips I made sure I picked out stuff that stood out to me and affected my emotions in a good way which I knew everyone else who saw it would be affected like me when I watched it. I knew in my mind that it was trailer and not a movie and because I only had a certain time limit on my video, I think I started off quite weak but then my video got stronger and I hope that it ended on a good note. I never knew what to start off with as I wanted to make a good impression with my video but finally chose my clips and am proud of it. I'm also proud of my ending too as I finally learnt how to make my titles for my video name.
At first I Googled foster care videos and found a lot of documentaries that were very helpful to me and gave me a lot of historical information. I found this one American foster care documentary that just fascinated me enough to use some of their clips and amazed me on how much information and the pictures she used. I also found a trailer for a foster care movie that was out last year which affected me also as it was about a little girl who got taken away from her family and it showed the good and bad side of her life which I decided also to use in my video. The second reason I decided to use this video was because of the words she was saying which was what affected me the most. I thought this would be a good idea to use in my video as I thought it would be unique as no one else would have audio in their video.
Once I had chosen both the videos and clips that I wanted to use in my video, I had to take some time to decide how I would fit them together as one was a documentary and another was a movie trailer. It was challenging to put my clips together and to learn to take the voice audio out of the documentary clip which I had to Google how to do.
I decided to keep the same music for the foster care movie trailer as I thought this fitted well with my clips. It was hard to fit two clips together side by side both from different things and showing different stories but hopefully I think I pulled it off.
After 4 weeks of non stop sorting of my time limit and audio sounds I finally had my video and clips together which made me very happy and proud.
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