My video Odyssey!

 In the middle of the past week I was thinking: “What I will share in my blog this weekend?” When I received a notification about an e-mail.

That e-mail was of my professor of the Reading and conversation course. I saw the notification to see about the content in the e-mail; that notification was about a grade of the task number one, about reporting a book in a video, in that course. When reading I remembered the day I filmed that video and why not to write about, because that video took me a complete week doing  and practicing the report, I made almost a hundred of bloopers in my video and that day I ate really late with my mom at my side.

I had done a lot of drafts in some sheet of papers gathering main ideas about the book. The book was: “THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US” by Reyna Grande. It is an exciting book with three hundred fifty-four pages, pages that I had red many times in order to clarify dates, events and situations that the main character lives in the story to make a strong report, there are some details that I was forgotten. So, I was looking pages almost of the time and writing the ideas in the sheet of papers. Then, I was joining all the sheet of papers and writing the important points again coherently in my notebook. After I had red more than a hundred time the ideas that I had collected I thought I was ready to film the video, but not.

"THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US" By Reyna Grande

When filming the video I was really nervous that in every phrase and sentence I said was making a mistake (it happens me always I´m recording a video). Even though, when finishing my report in my notebook I started to red and practiced it as if I was already recording, the day I was filming the video I was so nervous of making mistakes that I started to be confused and I was forgetting the main ideas I would be talking about in the video. The first mistakes in the video were ending in laughing and the last ones were ending not only with laughing but also with crocodile tears. I really wished to have that done it, but the video was not already recorded. I was so nervous and thinking that was not a good idea to make the video on the due date. But days before I was thinking that I was not ready to record it yet, until the day of the delivery arrived. However, I was trying again with other video when my mom entered in my room. 

She was in front of me when I was recording other of that videos that were not the good ones. This video was almost perfect, but wasn´t in the admitted time, I didn´t care at the chronometer and the result was a video of twenty-four minutes . I was tired for all the not well-recorded videos, I was full of anxiety for the seconds and minutes running and my mom seeing me fulled me of more nervous. Seeing the longer video I had done, I went to my bed and I fall down almost crying and she sat down next to me and started to massage my head softly that I almost fall asleep. When my stomach started to growl, my mom and I were seeing each other and asked me if I had ate...

I said: - Nouuu....

My mom went out my room and went to the kitchen to give me something to eat to calm my grumpy stomach. So I was eating almost at 11:00 PM.

On that day, it was Sunday and I had a hard day and I went late to my home and I didn´t eat something. I was tired. I only went to my room laid down on the bed and take a nap. At seven- thirty I started to make the video, the video that resulted to be a lot of failed videos.

Well, after my dinner at that later time I started to record my other video with my mom next to me, but this time I was not nervous and I was almost crying thinking about the amazing and great mom I had. Well, I started to record the video and I was seeing the chronometer to control the time. Suddenly, I saw my mom making gestures to stop the video, because she was thinking that was only five minutes for the video, but I make a gesture and I I showed with dissimulation the chronometer and she understood. This was the video I sent to You Tube!

It was not the perfect one and never it would be, but it was on the admitted time and I considered that I mentioned all the important facts and points to be evaluated. At eleven hours, ten minutes and forty-seven seconds I had done my video!

I rapidly uploaded in you tube hoping that could be done it “fast and furious” as Mr. Guzmán said (this is understandable for the ones who had taken courses with him) and thank God it was in that way. It was a miraculous way that I was really surprised, There were only a pair of minutes when I saw it was already uploaded!

So, after uploading in You Tube I sent it to my professor of the Reading and Conversation course. The Odyssey was ended and the results were good enough! 

 

Moral: Do not record videos at the last minute without being fed.