Revised self portrait

I've been thinking more about the specifics for my self portrait idea as well as finding some good found footage. I've mostly been focusing on the first portion of the video. I want it to be a compilation of some of my vague, early memories (not the exact memories but more imagery/sound that evokes the memories for me). I will add post production to these effects to give them a sort of hazy, long-ago feeling. 

For the soundscape I've thought of a few specific musical snippets to use for this portion. My parents were both huge hippies back in the day and were really into Indian meditation and stuff like that, it was a pretty big part of my childhood so I want to use some sound effects that remind me of that. I also have in mind a few samples from 90's hip hop songs that I remember as a child that really remind me of where I grew up in upstate NY. 

Once my video transitions to the negative section when I went to 8th grade, I like the idea of using black and white, this portion will be without color and the positive memories before this part will have color.

I still haven't really though to much about the rest of this video (post 8th grade), I'm just mainly focusing on the first part. Inspiration for the latter portion of the video will come to me once I'm working on it.

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