Symbiosis in 60 Symbiosis is the relationship between two organisms, whether it it good or not. This video focused on the good, and the connections we have with people without even realizing that they are there.When I first started this projet, I was really captivated by the idea of home. The phrase “home is where the heart is bounced around in my head while I tied to decide what mate- rial I needed: Construction paper, colored pencils, and my boy friend's iPhone were just the beginning, This grand animated video started to appear in my he remembered I cannot draw to save my life. So, I decided to d and I was excited, Then | start with the musie and hope that it would get those ereative juices flowing. Free Play Music is not fan to navigate Itseems that searching fora piano piece isnot as simple as telling the ad vanced search box that you want “piano solo" as your instr- ment. Also, guitars are pianos. Who knew, right? During this struggle, I started to question exactly what I wanted to do with this concept. None ofthe musi I could find seemed to fit the ‘mood that I wanted, and I still had no idea how I wanted to ap- proach the actual video So, [took a step back and started to think about home, I thought about what it meant to me, and why it was so impor tant. Then I remembered being a kid and running home after school to dinner and my parents. I remember my parents be ing on either side of me, grabbing my hands, and swinging me inthe air while we walked into the store. Home was my child hood, and that bond felt with my family Home is also here on campus, with my boyfriend. It’ the warmth I feel when I realize that Ihave someone else in my life that Iean share everything with, That's such a crazy con. cept, right? That you could have someone else in this world whom you connect with on such a deep level. Ie was this ‘thought that I wanted to center my project around, but I ida’ really know what to call it I thought about love, and the many different variations of it that we eel: familial love, comantic lo the start of my first video, and I hoped that I could go around and record other couples in the area, Surprisingly enough, I couldn't muster up the courage to ask strangers i could re- cord them, My boyfriend was less than enthusiastic about by ing recorded, so that was also out. The Internet Archive very ‘uickly became my savior and main souree of material for this ete, That was project| very quickly came tothe realization that love was not the di- rection I wanted to take because there were very few videos about the concept. Turns out the Internet Archives isa web- site for home videos and educational stuff, not necessarily 10- ‘mantic excursions. [algo ran into the issue of being drawn to videos about children, which is kind of avekoward i still wanted to pursue the Jove” idea. So then what was there? I really wanted to keep the footage I had, because it rally struck a chord with me but I didn't know what to do, That was when [found a clip of some kids defining symbiosis, That seemed so perfect to me and for what I wanted to create Allof notin the way that we normally think about. Instead of a videos that I collected represented symbiosis, but clownfish and an anemone, I chose to show a mother and her baby. [showed a family eating together and children interaet- ing because I wanted to show that we are no different than any other animal on this earth, and we all erave that strong bond with another human being. At first, there were clips of animals in my video for that reason. I showed a bee pollinating a flower and a elownfish (naturally) with the hope of creating parallels; However, as I continued with my editing process I realized that the animal but clips just didn't seem right to me, Itwas a cool messag not the one [really wanted to show. So, [removed all of those clips and kept to people. That was when the hardeore editing began I started pulling all kinds of videos about people and how they interact with one another, The whole time I had kept the video of the couple dancing together (itis the first black-and \white clip I use) because I felt like it really captured what I hhad always wanted to do with this projet, but couldn't really create, As I came closer and eloser to the finished project, I started to focus on the relationship between children and par- ents, because i till ket that original feeling of “home” that I sd to express but kept to the new plan that I had ereated, Te music also stays the same throughout because I felt ike was my rock in this whole thing,After I had received feedback and read that the opening speaking part wasn’t the best, I tried removing it and seeing if I still iked the message it provided, I thought that typing it cout wouldn't blend in well withthe constant motion of the video. 1 definitely didn’t like it, but I didn't know how to fix it That's when my sister eame to town, and I realized what 1 could do, Why use a elip online when I could continue that home video feel and record her? Tt took some coaxing and some Starbucks, but I convinced her to read out the beginning portion of the video. The last part was actually a happy acci- dent; I was going to remove the little snippet of us talking, but then heard it with the video and loved it. After having that final piece, began editing the sound to mingle with the music that was playing throughout, So there I was, cranking it out when I thought the video was still missing something, I liked the audio and felt like my ss ter was a great edition, but [still needed one more thing ‘That's where my boyfriend came in. Ijust wanted something personal and eute at the end, and that’s what I did. There was also a random couple at Starbucks that I thought would work great next to the 505 family, o Tasked them if [could watch them and and they seemed pretty cool with it (ora least they didn't freak out), Just cleaning up the video and ing off Starbucks tea. I dont know ‘what I would've done without you, Starbucks,Ultimately, fee like my video is stil about love but not the kind we are used to seeing, It shows the little day-to-day things that we often take for granted. Ths video represents those deep feelings and bonds we form with other people but cannot deseribe, That is why I chose to name my project "Sym biosis in 60°: We are all connected to each other, whether we realize it or not