The assignment, What do Pets think about?, entails that you take a series of video sequences of your pet in contemplating mode and narrate it. I took a different approach to this assignment partly because my audio sound would not record and partly because my pets are an hour away. I really like doing assignments that involve my pets so I took somewhat of different view on what this assignment was…

I have videos of my dog on my phone. They are very brief, but none in contemplating mode. The video of Lilo chasing the reflection off my mom’s iPad is the most recent one I have. So the original plan was to take this video and lay audio over it of what I think was going through her small little brain at the time. However, there are always complications with good ideas. I couldn’t record anything. Audacity wasn’t picking up my voice or maybe my microphone isn’t working. I have no idea. So after about an hour or so of trying to fix this, I decided to just add titles and music.

When I just had the video in the timeline, I thought it was boring. I then added the first few slides beginning the story and having other pictures of her. I thought it added a little something extra to the video. For some reason, I youtubed circus music. Just the way she prance and jumps around made me think of the circus. I found this great clip. I had to cut some of it off using audacity (it would work for this of course) and put it into the movie. I thought it fit with her jumps and looking around pretty well. It adds a bit of excitement to the scene. The font for the titles just came up automatically when I started typing in the words. I really liked it. It seemed fun and fit the scenes. I think it may have been a font I used previously, but it worked well with this movie too.

Lilo is one of the sweetest dogs ever, however she really isn’t the smartest. She was mesmerized by this reflection for quite some time. She is definitely ditsy, so I don’t think much really crosses her mind. I call her the goldfish dog. Her brain reboots after around three seconds. However, she wasn’t bred for her brains. She was bred for racing. She has already won a champion reserve at the National Competition level and she is only 7 months. I’m very proud of her!