Donnerstag, 12. Februar 2015

It's a wrap!

I just finished the application video.

The most difficult task is done! Go me! It was not easy, but it was a lot of fun.

At the beginning I had no idea what to put in the video, because there's so much to say and it has to fit in only 2 minutes. So I watched what felt like one hundred application videos of other Au pairs and I kinda took their best ideas and made them mine. Thanks for the inspiration, guys!

I wanted to film outside, which was impossible because it was too windy. Then I wanted to film myself, but my hair just didn't want to look good. For some parts of the video, my dad was my camera man, but he forgot to push the "record" button. Yesterday I was at a friend's house and we needed an hour to shoot 10 seconds. It was hysterical, my face hurt cause we laughed so much.

The cutting was rather easy and eventually, the video was finished. Actually that's almost a miracle, considering all the difficulties :p

However, here we are.

Are you ready?


(I hope this works)

I'd really appreciate a comment if you like it. Also if you don't like it. Just write "like" or "ugh my eyes hurt".

Thank you for reading & watching & hopefully commenting ;)

Christin xo

P.S.: Thanks also to my friends for their help (in case you are reading this). I love you!

Donnerstag, 5. Februar 2015

And The Story Goes On

It's time to do or die!

Since my last blog post, I worked on my application and now I have most of the things that I need. I still have to do some creative work, like writing a letter to my future host family and shooting a video in which I introduce myself. Oh well, actually these are the most difficult things, but I have vaccation at the moment so I have some time to do that.

At least I have proper equipment now, because I do have a camera, but not a high quality one. So I begged my friends for their help and now I'm the proud owner of a reflex camera and a camcorder. I seriously love these things, I might never give them back :p


Profile pic!
Speaking of cameras and friends, the other day I went for a walk with a friend and we did a little photo shoot to resolve my profile pic problem (see last post). And surprisingly we were quite successful! What do you think?

During the next days, I'm gonna write my letter and shoot the video and I think I'll upload the video on YouTube for you to see! If anybody's interested.

Thanks for reading, I'd appreciate a comment if you have tips or if my profile pic looks terrible or if you want to tell me anything else.

I'm gonna end this post with my motto for the next days:

"The bridge between dreams and reality is hard work." - Jared Leto

Christin xo