Self portrait response

I enjoyed working on my self portrait, and I'm really glad that I was allowed to use some music. For what it's worth, I was basically done with my project at about 12:30 AM the day before it was due, but a couple things felt slightly off to me and I ended up staying up all night (finally went to sleep at 6:45) to get these few things how I wanted them. This wasn't in the interest of getting a better grade, as I'm pretty sure my grade would have been the same before or after these changes. I did that because I wanted the video to be more accurate to my experiences and memories. I'm not saying any of this to get brownie points or anything like that, I just wanted to share. I definitely don't always go the extra mile, especially when the only difference it would make would be for me and no one else. In this case though I'm glad I did, I'm not really going to show this project to people and if I do they won't understand it they way that I do, so it was really just for myself.

Part of me wants to have this be the first part of a series about my life and memories, although that feels kind of self-involved. If I do ever make more I would probably do one on my teenage years (14-19) my early twenties (20-24) and my most recent chapter (25-present). As of now with how busy I am though this is definitely just a pipe dream, but who knows what the future holds? Also if I do make these I won't publish them in any form, it would just be for me.

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