Recording Us

I suddenly feel like I don't have much to say on here as I probably post too many short and random thoughts to my facebook status. Facebook is a curse sometimes. It makes us too aware of who we are in front of other people. I'd like to teach myself to get back into reflecting personally on here and not so publicly there.

I had an interesting conversation with Jon the other night over dinner, about how home videos of "growing up" have such a different feel to them in these days of social media applications and the publicity of self awareness. I recall the old videos I've seen of my mom's side of the family. My grandmother riding a bike in the parking lot next to their home in the late 60s with the kids being silly or running away from the camera.. hula hooping, laughing, playing ball.. with no audio. I love those films.

We have a nice video camera. I think we've (Jon) has so far used it on a Kennedy launch in the past year. Otherwise we've done no video (and little still photo) record-keeping of our lives as a married couple before having children. We still have plenty of time. I'd like to remedy that soon.. but not in a way that makes us feel like we're exposing our lives to social medias as it's being recorded. (Because people ACT differently when they know what they're doing will be viewed by the masses.. and I don't like that.)

I'm not really sure how best to do it, actually. It might be easier once we have our own new place to talk about and to own. But here are my ideas of how I plan to create and how I imagine our home movies to best represent the nostalgia of past times when we go back to watch them in the future:

• Audio is sometimes weird to me. Moving images with an appropriate musical score is increasingly more nostalgic than voices for some reason. Or maybe I'm just not fond of my voice.

• I'd like to learn a simple video production program very well so I can edit and put color and soft lighting effects to the films to create a unique visual. I really like the lighting and softness of this photo:

• And I'd really like to storyboard a creative film piece once we get pregnant. Stop action :•) but done impressively and not cheesily somehow.

Essentially too, I'd like to be more creative together Jon and I. We both have our creative areas that would come together nicely in a worthy effort such as this. I'm looking forward to trying to plan and produce it together.