My First Video

For those of you that don't know, I am applying to school. I am going for a Master's Degree in Global Strategic Communications with the Miami Ad School and with FIU. The application process for the Miami Ad School specifically has been very hard.

One of the components, the one I was the most nervous about doing was the video component. I had to make a 4-6 minute video on what makes me creative. This topic in itself is a hard question to answer. I literally wanted to make a 4 minute video to music of a white screen with the words "I don't know, I just am" and have the last frame say "Bitch".

I had no idea how to begin this assignment. A friend of mine also applied to Miami Ad School and had to make a video as well. Hers was good, kinda funny and very much like an ad on creativity...which is probably 100% what the admissions people want to see.

After seeing her video, there was also the additional challenge that we both have very similar backgrounds and how do I not outright copy her video. She even chose The Postal Service as her background music, which was exactly what I wanted mine to be.

The next step was making kind of an outline of what I wanted to say. So I typed out a "what makes me creative" essay and just thought about that awhile. I hated it and deleted it and re-started it about a hundred times.

Once I had the words, I needed to come up with the visual. First thoughts? Look up pictures of crazy people on the internet, download stills from YouPorn and use photoshop to alter them and pass them off as my original artwork. What I actually ended up doing was going though every picture in the computer and finding the ones that made me look pretty.

Once I found all 5 pictures of myself that I like, I needed to create the story around them. I wanted to include my friends, my family and the fact that I was taught by famous professors...I also kinda wanted to make people cry with how personal and touching it was. I was also going for the "wasn't college fun" feel. Some friends in the video I don't see much anymore, so I was hoping they would remember when watching the video that we used to love each other.

Picking the music I must say was the easiest part. I obviously had to rule out Postal Service, so after that I figured, since I was talking about my family, I should use Cuban music that didn't suck and wasn't so distracting that it would take away from the point of the video. So, I chose Buena Vista Social Club's "Chan Chan" which was immediately called out in an email from a friend that said "good call on the puerto rican music"...dick.

OK, so the video is attached. Please let me know what you think. Do you get what makes me creative? Do you think I should apply to a different school entirely and become a movie director? Reminder- the topic isn't SHOW ME THE ART WORK YOU HAVE DONE...its WHAT MAKES YOU CREATIVE.

I would have loved to include blog shots or have mentioned the blog, but I don't want them to read it. Side note: the video includes my real name and the names of relatives. So, to my 19 Russian readers, and my 1 reader each from the UK, Singapore and Germany- please don't stalk me.

So here it goes, watch the movie and comment. If you are my friend and you weren't in it, its because either I don't have a picture of you, or the picture of you that I have makes you look fat.

If this doesn't work try: http://youtu.be/a2caGXyHU4M