Foodz.

My first video podcast was one based on my love of food. When told that I had to record interesting footage over the weekend, I knew that I was only going to be in my house and at my job all weekend, two places that don't seem too interesting to me anymore. However, when thinking of what the two places had in common except for the fact that I inhabit both of them frequently, I realized what the connection between the two is: they both have food. Upon thinking of this, I took out my camera during every meal I consumed over the weekend. When I went on break at work, the camera was there. When I was eating lunch at home, the camera was there. After recording my first meal of the weekend (McDonald's, which actually didn't make the video) I played it back and sped it up. I found it pretty cool that the food seemed to disappear so fast during a speedy playback. This is where I got the overall idea for my video.

There were a few problems that I encountered while putting this together. Firstly, when recording the food I was eating, it was difficult to get the camera to sit in a way that could record the food and still look clear. For example, a few of the meals I recorded were a little too close, therefore making the image a little blurry. However, I didn't realize that they were so blurry when I played them back on my camera, because the screen was so small that it looked clear.

Another problem I came across had to do with background music. I'm not a musician, nor do I have any software on my computer to help me to create music, so I found it difficult to think of what I should have in the background. As I thought more about it, I realized that I could perform a beat of some sort on some pots and pans, both creating my background noise and sticking with the theme of food. After listening to the beat, I realized how much I wished I were a musician so that I could've done something better, but I figured that it would be fine since pots and pans aren't usually the greatest instruments in the first place. I added some audio in the background of the crunch of eating some chips, and this can be heard throughout the piece as well.

When thinking of the message that my video conveys, I believe it is simply this: I need to eat more vegetables.