Video Essay Story board


Years still feel like days
Image result for cancer strong            Narration: Another year with you gone feels like yesterday. Years, days, minutes, hours pass by with a reminder that you aren’t on earth anymore. (Photo of my mother) No one wants to lose a mother. Mothers are the most important key to raising a child. As you bared me for months and had me prematurely on May 15th, 1999, you were the reason I took my first breath. Complications came along the way due to me being born prematurely, but you chose to keep me alive despite the risk. On that day you gave me the name, Jaimere Malikk Washington (Baby Photo of me). The last child out of five children, I was your baby. It was the start of how you raised me to become the young man I am today.
Effects: Fade in
Music: Acoustic Piano
           Narration: Single mother of five, nothing kept you down no matter what. You worked hard to keep us out of the streets and prepare us to one day be able to take care of ourselves. Sacrifice was within your heart and actions every time it came down to taking care of all five of us. Even with your last checks or last penny in your pocket, you would give it all to us. God, I was so oblivious back then to understand how much you did for us. Day in and out, you would make sure we had a roof over our heads and clothes on our backs. With you around life never seemed hard. Although we weren’t the richest, through struggle you kept our wishes alive and your own as well. Wow its amazing what was revealed to me, what all you did behind the scenes, despite getting help, it was all you. How was I not capable of comprehending everything that mothers do. Somedays I wish I could go back to you and see that smile of yours again. The way you would make me laugh with your Jamaican impressions. With a little bit of mobster impressions as well. “Get outta here” as you would say every time I would ask over and over to do another mobster impression. Movies were a huge part of life and they still are. Regardless of what day it is, I would sit down in the living room with you and we would watch old 80s movies. It was more of like an addiction to me because there were movies that not even adults who were born before me knew some of the movies. But watching those kinds of movies don’t feel the same anymore, because I’m watching them without you. It feels like yesterday when I lost you.
Effects: Film Dissolve
Music: Acoustic Piano
            Narration(close): Your strength shined through weakness as years to come we would found out you would die from liver cancer. With all the research in the world, cancer is such a complex disease to understand. When you think its gone, it returns harder and uglier. No matter how hard of a hitter cancer was, your smile formed a shield that defended you from every blow. One thing was on your mind through it all; family. You were the glue that kept our family together.
Effects: Film Dissolve
Music: Acoustic Piano


Also my Instagram link with potential images: https://www.instagram.com/dstoytellingjw/

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Reverse engineering Sofia Coppola's Imaginary World

Image
" Lick the star " by Sofia Copeland, personally the black and white perspective points it out more. It's as if this is what she would want her imaginary world to look like. This somewhat relates to one of the Keri Smith's prompts that involves that actual photo and images that make her imaginary world come to life. That seems to be through a black and white perspective. Which it seems like not a perfect world as most would think a world away from reality would be but this seems to have a yin and yang type of vibe. Take the bad when its bad and you take in the good when everything is fine. The narrator seems to be a guide for us as we enter her imaginary world or the world that she lives in. We are getting other point of views but we still are reflecting back to what the Narrator is telling us. Sophia seems to have a lot of interesting characters within her database which then were transported into her video essay. These characters seem to be dark characters who have...
Read more

Podcast reflection and podcast link

Regarding my podcast it was very interesting to create. It was the first time ever that I recorded myself speaking with others about something that I’m passionate about. Usually I hate hearing myself after I recorded my voice but that was a comfort zone I had to get out of. Developing a script for the podcast was cool as well but it helped a lot, so I might not sound scripted. Other than that, I felt like I did alright regarding dialog and just to keep things interested in the listener. As there aren’t many podcasts about poetry, it was great to be a part of a genre that there should be podcast for. Many people might think it’s just people reading poetry, but its more than that. Connecting to any who is interested in poetry is the goal. I think the podcast format is not necessarily the best format for poetry, but it can be something that can be a part of hopefully the expansion of this genre on all platforms. When working on this podcast it was very easy to find people to inter...
Read more