This semester in life we were given a project where we had to make a 2-4 minute short film about a topic of our choosing. I chose to make my film about self change and how over quarantine I figured out that my happiness came from other people then myself. Mental health is, sadly, a very common issue in my generation and one of the main reasons is because kids are exposed to social media at such a young age. Covid-19 was affecting my mental health because i couldn't do the things that I usually do like seeing all my friends. It was hard for me to adjust but my film tells you how i was able to make that adjustment. In my opinion, creating my script was the easy part of this project. I was basically just typing stuff on paper that I thought flowed and I feel like I got my point across well. I would sit and think about what I would want to hear or what I thought was interesting. The connection to another subject that I made for my project was history and I made the connection to how even though slaves were not in a bad situation they still found a way to shed light on situations and sing songs together. Even though families were separated and they were working in such harsh conditions, they still found a way to smile. This quote from my script says “I have taught myself something that I will never forget, which is you don’t need other people to be happy”. Although the connection is not straight like it is still the same. You have to figure out and do what makes you happy. I think the hardest part of the project was the storyboarding because I had to go off of my script and think of things that I would want to film. In the process of filming I had other ideas that I didn't think of when I was making my storyboard. I column’d add random scenes that I didn’t have on my storyboard nor could I redo the whole thing, so it was starting to get frustrating. Filming was easy since I was going off of my storyboard. Imovie made everything easier for me when it came to editing and doing the voiceovers. All i had to do was watch a quick tutorial on how to use the app and it only took me about 45 minutes to edit. I enjoyed this part of the project the most because I enjoy editing. All together, I don’t think the film was amazing but I also don’t think it was bad. This was my first time doing something like this before and filming is not my strong suit. Even though I didn’t make an oscar worthy film, I feel like I got my point across well with it. I enjoyed some papers of the filmmaking process like doing the script. I enjoyed writing down what I had to say. I would definitely want to do another assignment like this in the future.