Over Christmas we were asked to do a little project in which we had to find a memory we wish to remember in six different ways. I chose to do my memory of going to Florida over the summer, one of my favourite places in the world.

Firstly the word 'reinvent' stood out to be in the brief and in true Christmas spirit noticed old, plain baubles that could do with a little touch up. In Downtown Disney they have a Christmas shop that my mother always liked to browse around for decorations for the tree (In summer - I don't know why?), but a nine hour journey home with highly breakable items isn't the most ideal for them so I thought it'd be cool to have a go at making my own now. Something we can use on the tree next year I guess.




Going a long with my desire to make things from different items, still trying to be resourceful and after messing around so much with the fireworks on the bauble, I decided it might be fun to make my own firework. So rummaged around the kitchen to find supplies.



I wanted to show my trip in some kind of story like sequence and this got me thinking about how we show things in pre-production. I liked the idea of creating my own story boards of the major events that happened on the holiday, reminding me of all the things I got to experience.






The storyboards were originally done in 2b pencil and then coloured using acrylic paints. While storyboards aren't usually coloured and are not traditionally too detailed, I thought it'd be an interesting way to shake things up a bit and make it more interesting. This also could have been just a way to display a sequence of otherwise seemingly unconnected paintings.

From all my trips to the theme parks I have gathered an extensive amount of maps and after thinking they would come in handy some day they finally did (take that non believers)!






As a film student, a video was alway going to make an appearance at some point in this and admittedly it was the first thought that popped into my head when I heard the brief. I took clips that I had taken and made a short display of memories from the entire trip, the ones that I really, really wanted to remember. The song used is by a Northern Irish musician Foy Vance, and this was used due to my constant playing of it almost every night on our journey back to the villa. It also felt like it meant I could put a little bit of Northern Irishness into it and relate it back to me a bit...just a personal touch I guess.



Lastly I created a playlist on youtube, a simple idea but one that I can connect with and brings back a lot of good memories which is the true point behind this. Originally I thought of creating a music playlist with all the songs from the different parks etc however I changed my mind and decided to go a bit of a different path, making one consisting of all my favourite roller coasters. As a bit of a roller coaster junkie this allowed me to briefly feel like I was back and made me long to go on all of them again! You can view the playlist here if you want.