SarahCroce

That was when I had finally gone to see a psychiatrist, and hadn’t yet learned that they tend to drug you up to your eyelids for every feeling you have, which wasn’t helped by my combo of PTSD-like issues from Mom’s latest psychotic break and the med students’ disease I “contracted” after learning about schizophrenia and mental illnesses in AP Psych. You can be a scrawny kid inhaling Cheetos and gulping down Mountain Dew while playing video games 12 hours a day, every day and have a heart attack at 25, or you can be a little bit bulky but active, eat fairly healthy and be considered a model of health internally. As gym teachers used to tell us insecure teens, when you go on a crash diet, severely reducing your food intake, your body will actually gain weight when you start to eat again, I think to 1.5 times of what you weighed before you started dieting, because, when your body is deprived of food, it naturally stores fat and carbs and sugars and calories as energy. Also, carbs are good for giving you energy before exercising, not all fat in food is created equally, and sugar and carbs turn to fat, so low fat food isn’t always the best answer.

Though fair use should come into play, and this video is not, directly, for profit (though boosting public interest in CURE, thus increasing proceeds for the nonprofit’s event is, of course, a desired outcome), First Amendment rights are not inherent on YouTube, at least not until the  undetermined amount of time when YouTube workers can check the validity of such claims or the claims go past their expiration date or whatever the hell happens. Therefore, I used the old age film effect in Movie Maker for the opening text, and put a sepia filter over the actual video to make it fit in with the overall audio and visual style. Ultimately, I think the opening text is on screen long enough, though I could have kept the CURE banner with the event info up longer, but that would have involved further editing the music, which would have thrown the pacing off for the surprise ending, and since comedy is heavily reliant on timing, I think it’s all right as is. Plus, anyone could stop the video to read all the info, or look in the video’s description, or click the link to the event’s info page I put in the description, so I covered my bases.

Let’s face it: I’m a rare breed to come up with ideas like these. Whether that’s a good or bad thing is up for debate. This is a promo video I made for an upcoming CURE Childhood Cancer Association event. (By the way, Google Drive and Windows Movie Maker are great for projects like this.)

Just want to drop in and let you know that, since I have been having a lot of thoughts and ideas that expand well beyond the outer limits of anything vaguely relating to the arts, I have started writing posts over on LinkedIn. Granted, I could have just made another blog with WordPress, but I was being lazy, and the alternative social media platform lets me focus more on text and less on visuals and SEO, thus allowing me to display the broader range of my writing abilities and interests to prospective employers. I do plan to write that post about cat videos and memes soon, hopefully by the time Lollypop Farm’s Tails Also, I have a very belated guest post to write about Irish music for my friend’s blog, Tuning Into The Obscure.