Hey there! Welcome back to my blog, I haven’t posted a while but I am back! (Let’s be honest you probably forgot about me). Recently I went to Alberta with PLP, and it was honestly pretty amazing, we went on a bunch of breathtaking hikes (figuratively and literally). 
I also learned quite a bit while we were there. I started to learn about all of the ways to communicate through the moving image. We had to make 4 different videos to help us learn about this, an at home video that I did before we left, where I Talked about all the things that inspire me. Here it is: What inspires me | Youtube video. When we were making this video we also got to make a YouTube channel where we would be uploading all of our videos. Whilst making my first video I realized how much I liked editing and creating videos. once I had discovered my newfound liking for videography I started to explore new features and ways to get information across, like using background music to convey emotions, as well as adding in text, and different transitions.
The second video we did was on the first day into the trip, in a ghost town! We had to make an old fashioned themed, silent video in black and white. The video was pretty fun to film and my group members were pretty good at cooperatin and collaborating. This video also taught me to use body language to tell a story, exaggerated body movement works best, as well as using over the top facial expressions. Silent Video. 
After the silent video we started to work on our shortest video of them all, the TikTok style video, the name pretty much explains itself. In this video we got to choose a tiktok trend to use and incorporate into a video sharing our trip. I did this with a partner and it was way better than doing it alone in my opinion. This was pretty fun to edit because we chose to do a transition style video where we jump and it changes scenes, I enjoyed making it look nice and doing sound effects. TikTok style Video. 
Last but most certainly not least. Our fourth and final video was an investigative video, this video was more academically orientated. In the investigative video we had to talk about how some interviews we did supported our thesis as well as anything else we learned on the trip that could support it. This was by far the hardest video to make and edit because I was actually a little bit confused. I did figure everything out and I am very proud of the video I made. Investigative video 
I had an amazing trip and I want to thank all of the teachers for putting up with us, taking care of us, and just going the extra mile, Thank you.