In Plp we were given a mini group side project to research and create a mini film about a historic part of Vancouver that we thought was interesting. Me and my friends really like to be outside and with it being winter we decided to do our mini film on Mt. Seymour as I have spent lots of time on this mountain from either hiking to snowboarding. In my group I had Spencer Simon Calum and I.

As this being a mini project we had a short time period to fully edit and create a mini film that would show the history of that place and why it’s called what it’s called, we would also have to create a bibliography for our video and have different elements to in the video. My team mates Simon and Spencer went up to Seymour after school to try get some footage for our film but with the weather being terrible and it being pouring we couldn’t get much of our own footage which was very disappointing as we were excited to get recent footage of Seymour, instead we just used old footage that each person in our group had from being up in our past. We also wanted to get personal drone footage as it would be nice to have Ariel shots of the beautiful mountain but that was definitely not happening with the weather so we used drone footage off of the internet. We started editing the video as soon as possible so that it would be finished by the deadline and if anything were to go wrong we would still have time to finish it.

I’m actually very happy I chose do do Mt Seymour for the topic as I learned quite a lot about the Mountain and it’s history, Did you know Mt Seymour used to be owned by a Swedish emigrant in 1938. Years later the government of British Columbia ended up buying the mountain from Harold the emigrant, the government held ownership up until the mid 1980’s when it was sold to the present owners, the woods family. The woods family made some upgrades to the mountain like putting in the lodge chair as well as the Brockton chair. Lately the mystery chair lift was upgraded from a two seater to a faster four seater chair lift, One of the biggest story’s in the news about Mt Seymour is a tragic one. The highly decorated search and rescue volunteer, Tim Jones passed away from a heart attack while on Mt Seymour, his legacy will never be forgot and he was a great loss to Vancouver.

I can’t wait to go up Mt Seymour this season with my newfound knowledge, I go up Seymour multiple times a year and I’m so glad I chose Seymour as the topic as I know have learnt a lot about it and Seymour is a great place for everyone to go to. Our video is below if you would like to watch it.