I chose to create a video based on Miranda July's story This Person because it seemed a little more simpler in creating the story and it wasn't too long. I made multiple women the main character because in the story all you know about the person is that they are a girl, but you don't know if the author is actually telling you a story about herself or a friend or if it is meant to be anyone in the world. I can also relate to this on an emotional level because there have been times when I am excited to go somewhere or do something but then I might see or hear something that makes me not as excited about that thing as I was before. So when she no longer feels like returning to the party after not receiving any mail I can really relate to that sort of quick switching of moods. Making this video was pretty difficult at times because of the images that I had found online and by using stop motion and having to bring each photo into Photoshop separately in order to change it to the way that I wanted it to be in the video. Most of the images I found online had some sort of white background to them that I had to get rid of, some of them I had to alter a bit in order to fit in the video the way that i wanted it to.
Audio Choices
The audio that I chose for this story is that of a happier more uplifting sort of sounding music which then changes to a more kind of depressed sounding music. I did this because in the story, This Person, there is a change in mood by the person in the story when she checks her mail and sees that there isn't any mail for her. At this point she isn't in any sort of a partying mood anymore so she goes home and does what she wants until she goes to bed. I created this video in premiere elements and it came with its own audio that could be downloaded.
