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Dawyne Johnson is by far my favorite actor; all his movies are so fun to watch. So, I started with his first ever movie to one of his most recent ones. Every movie I did choose seemed to all have fighting scene, so I put those to use with his own rap song in the back. I feel very proud of this video I think it's fun and it shows the personality of The Rock.

Supercut Video Project

The first thing that came to my mind when thinking of supercuts were some of the videos & memes that I find online of people doing funny things or saying weird stuff over & over again. I like to make comedy with the work that I do naturally and I try to think about how I can make something comical in nature in my day-to-day life. Considering the opportunity that was given to me, I wanted to try to make something funny that hits that "sweet spot" in short-form comedy. One of the first few ideas that came to mind was how often it's joked about how upset Gordon Ramsey can get in his popular cooking shows. I hope that this delivers on that enjoyment of seeing a quick video to get a quick laugh!

Cancer is a very big topic in my family. My grandmother and great grandmother both died from cancer. I got diagnosed with Lynch Syndrome, which makes me extremely susceptible to a dozen different cancers. Everything I do, cancer is always in the back of my mind, wondering if the next time I go to the doctors, they'll tell me I have breast cancer, or ovarian cancer, or even skin cancer. When doing this video, I knew I wanted to highlight those who beat cancer. To show that there are people out there who are so strong, that they beat their own bodies, and can live a full life.

For The Loop project, I decided to explore the feeling that comes from body-scan meditation which is something that often gets taught to people diagnosed with depression, anxiety, ptsd, did, and pretty much anyone else who has trouble staying present and calm. It's used as a way to recenter and pull the mind back to reality and focus on what sensations you are feeling: what the sun feels like on your skin, the texture of the things around you, the way your clothes feel resting on your body, your breathing, etc. I definitely took inspiration for some of the close-ups from this video: https://youtu.be/nvr7T4sfads which I highly recommend, but I wanted to find rhythm and colors that were less frantic and disturbing. I used a combination of my sister's hands and clothes and my own. I used the same wash and overlay for all of the gifs in order to maintain the same feeling across, which for a couple of them I do think could have been a little brighter. But, my goal was to make something kind of dreamy but to still seem like that worried attempt to center oneself before losing it, I guess.

Gif 4: Glitched Happy Dog