My one minute video

Having no idea where to find a motif to create a visual of, I had decided to find shadows around my parents' home in the Ozarks. Somehow this morphed into filming shadows while my family worked (i.e., tagged and vaccinated) the cattle. Of course, by the time they got started (and I got out there) it was noon. At noon, there are no shadows. So I just started filming. About half way through my tape, I decided to focus on the tools that they used to move, contain, and work the cattle.

I used Adobe Premiere Elements, which provides an image of the material in the scene, so I used the scene view to organize the clips. Because this was so short, and all the material was similar, I am not sure how helpful more planning would have been except as an exercise in planning. For a longer piece, however, more categorizing would certainly be necessary.

I added an audio track, which was not really part of the assignment, but I thought was appropriate. One of the men in the film has a blue grass band. The music is Blackberry Blossom, performed by Big Creek Bluegrass.