Those Cute GoPro Videos, Except I Don't Own A GoPro

It is truly hard to believe that two weeks have passed since the THON 2017 weekend began. As evidenced from my last post, I am extremely involved in THON all year long and it's something I hold near and dear to my heart. The whole weekend was incredible, and really solidified for me why I spend all this time and money working towards a goal of raising as much money as possible for the Four Diamonds Fund.

In the past two weeks, I took on a task that reignited all of the incredible feelings from THON weekend. I made a video of my special interest organization in the stands at the Bryce Jordan Center, and my God, was it fun. It made me rethink all my life plans- I made one low quality video on iMovie and tossed "Brand New" by Ben Rector over it and all of a sudden I think I'm the next Martin Scorsese. I took all the videos on my phone and it doesn't even go up to 1080 HD, but I like the video nonetheless. I felt as though I was able to capture the incredible feelings of THON, the relationship my organization has with our Four Diamonds family, and the connection we all share as friends in a two minute, four second long video. Take a look!:

My home friend Ali (who I've mentioned too many times, probably) is the one who introduced me to making these kinds of videos in the first place. She made one from her family vacation to St. John in 2015 and it was so cute that it inspired me to want to do the same. I won a GoPro at my high school's post-grad party and subsequently lost it in the ocean in Southampton, New York about a month later. It was potentially one of the greatest material losses of my life and I miss that GoPro, but the waves wanted it more than I did, I guess. Rest easy, GoPro. Here's Ali's St. John video, though:

Regardless of my GoPro loss, I took advantage of a huge event that I was attending and made a cute video for my organization. They loved it. I mean, seriously. I was blushing when I read these messages:

I have to recommend making a video on iMovie or some other similar video editor. It's simple, you don't have to have any skills to do it, and we learned the basics of iMovie in the library that one time for this class anyway! It's a unique creative outlet, something a little bit different than the average drawing, painting, or writing. This WikiHow article gives you eleven quick steps to understand iMovie if the lessons from that class don't come to mind. It doesn't take long and it's lots of fun! If you're not a particularly creative person but you still need a creative outlet for your flashes of creativity, this is for you. If you have any sort of Apple product, you can make a video on iMovie (the app is free so you can make videos on your phone too). If you've ever made a video like this, put it in the comments or show it to me and I can almost guarantee that I will love it. Here's to creativity and fun times at THON!