I had a completely different plan for this video. Although, there is a problem with my brain. If I have a vision in my head, and I cannot make that vision come to life…well, then I can’t use that idea at all without thinking it’s absolutely terrible. So after an hour of filming and realizing that idea is never going to work, I had to think of something else. Fast.

The first thing I did was try to get inspiration from my footage roll. I figured I must have some video of Canda somewhere, so I dug out my hard-drive.

As it turns out, I have footage of every place I’ve ever been that’s not in Canada. I have Disneyland, Disneyworld, Seattle, NYC, Honduras, Oregon, The South. I even have Alaska! But I literally never film anything in Canada, because I don’t feel the need to remember anything here, because why would I?

Then I remembered that I actually do film my life, and so does nearly every single person I know. All the best bits of my day-to-day life are saved right in my Snapchat memories folder. So I went looking through my Snapchat memories to find the best things I could that would represent my life. It was simultaneously easier and harder than I thought. I put all the stuff I thought was good into iMovie, except I then learned I had picked over 5 minutes of footage for a 30 second video. To fix this, I first axed everything that was only funny because of the audio, or said anything even slightly bad in it (there wasn’t a lot of that, because my life isn’t very exciting). Then I just had to cut down and rearrange the video until it made sense.

But then I really wanted it to feel like you were watching my Snapchat story, so I wanted to do a screencap of my phone. I didn’t know how to do this and I panicked for a second when I look it up and it said that I would have to jailbreak my phone. But then, I realized all that I had to do was plug my phone into my computer and use Quicktime. So that was a LOT easier than I thought it was going to be. The other thing I had to do was put my name and “2m ago” in the corner of the video, which was easy cause all I did was download some video making app called Vont and use that.

Originally, I wanted to put voice over over top of my video, but I decided that wouldn’t make as much sense with this kind of video, as I felt it kind of spoke for itself. So instead, I decided to find some creative commons music and put that over top. I think I found some that more or less expressed the mood I was going for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTcZnTEt1qo

I don’t really think this video will win, because whoever is judging this might not like it very much.

Then again, even our Prime Minister uses Snapchat.

Although I honestly really don’t care if it wins, because I like it a lot and think it really expresses what My Canada is.

UPDATE: Here’s my video on the site!! Go vote for me!

http://www.heresmycanada.ca/videos/heres-my-canada-my-story-2/