At first I had a hard time trying to decide what I wanted to do for my video project, so I started just looking up things that I am interested in on a creative commons archive. One of those things is running, so I was looking at videos of people running races at the Olympics and world championships. But as I was scrolling through the search results, there was a video of Canadian geese running around. During the time working on our projects in class, I just messed around with alternating between a scene of a person running and a scene of a goose running. Later on, I realized that it might be cool to compare how different animals run.

My idea for my video is to gather clips of all sorts of different animals moving. It’ll have a large range of scenes including humans, small four-legged animals (like dogs or cats), larger animals running (horses, giraffes, etc.), birds flying, and other cool things that I find. I may or may not include aquatic animals, it depends on how much source material I can find.

To make it more interesting, I am going to try to make it so each clip is a similar running or movement style to the scenes right before and after. For example, I may have a section where there is a cat running followed by a flying squirrel running on a branch and jumping off it. The gliding of the flying squirrel can serve to transition from four legged animals to birds.

It may be hard to find similarities between all of the different animals that I use. One of those that would be hard to do would be snakes slithering along the ground. To get around this, I may just have a section at the end that is a compilation of weirder styles of movement.