Video Intro

(I had typed this but never posted it! oooops :))


This is my first attempt at a video blog (a "vlog" if you will), although I don't know if it counts as a vlog since it's more just an intro. I guess if/when we post more videos this semester, it'll qualify.. so this is my first entry? I'm new to all of the blogging and vlogging, if that's not obvious.

I'm not a huge fan of being on film. I honestly never really have been. Which I guess is a little ironic, considering I was a performance major. But that's the thing about performance. Typically, barring any recordings being made of the performance, a performance is terminal. It lasts only in the moment (or moments, if it's a repeat showing) and if you were there, you got to experience it and if you weren't.. well, you missed it (which could be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on how the performance went). But that's the thing! It makes it that much more special whenever you experience a performance (and that much better as a performer, if the performance went bad).. no one that wasn't present will ever get to see the performance YOU saw. Video.. video is eternal. Even if I were to take that video down RIGHT NOW, someone could find it on some archive somewhere, and that's a lot of pressure!

I think I did a decent job. I tend to get on tangents when I just start talking, so I did think about it a little before I started recording--what I could talk about, what I SHOULD talk about, what was relevant, what I felt people should know about me to get to "know" me. Otherwise, I just let it flow. And I did a pretty good job (I think) on staying on topic. Of course, being the girl that I am (and you're always your own worst critic) all I could see when I watched it back was how swollen my face is, being nine months pregnant and all, and how this was the first impression everyone would have of me. But I guess with nothing to compare it to, my classmates are none the wiser on that front :)

Overall, it wasn't a complete bust :) I'm giving myself a hard time.. I think it was successful in giving people a good picture of me.. or at least a preliminary picture of me from which they can build their own opinions of me!