In class we are doing this thing called My Canada where we must create a thirty second video about what Canada is to us. When creating my My Canada video, the first thing I did was look over the rubric, then I started to think of a topic. It didn’t take me that long before I decided on the topic of nature. I decided on the topic because of how much the forest impacts me, and how it is a place where I feel free to do what I want without criticism or judgement. A place where I can be me. The forest is a part of my life that i hope will never change, and so when we had to explain what our Canada is, that was the first thing to pop into my head.

I then gathered together some photos that I had previously taken, that went with the topic I was going for. I put these photos into an iMovie to go with my video. Once I finished this, I added in a voice over that explained how my Canada was a place where the forest is your backyard and how it was a big part of my life. After this, I began to plan out what audio I was going to use for the background. In the end I thought it might be fun to sing a song and use that in the background of

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my video. This was because the rules state that you are not allowed to use any copyrighted material, so therefore I was not allowed to put in my music of choice. I decided to sing a song that I thought would sound the best in my video, so I decided to sing a song called safe and sound by Taylor Swift. It’s really pretty and in my range so why not! I used garage band to record both my singing, and add the background music to go with. It took me a while to get bother the sound tracks on to the same I movie, but I eventually fixed my problem and my video was finally finished! The very last thing to do was to add the My Canada bumper to the end of the Video. With my finished product, i posted it on the My Canada Website and that was that.

Here is a draft of my video, so that you can see what I fixed from then, until I made the final product. Some of the things that were changed were the sound in the background, and some of the pictures. At first, I had just the singing in the background, but I decided to add piano so that it didn’t sound boring. Also, the video ended up being too long, so I cut out some pictures and text from the beginning and the end of my video.

http://www.heresmycanada.ca/videos/heres-my-canada-the-forest-is-my-backyard/
Here is my My Canada video that I made! Don’t forget to leave me a VOTE so that I can have a chance of winning one of the many awesome prizes that are offered in this contest!