YouTube Sculpting

          One of the first limitations that I noticed as I approached the "YouTube Sculpting" is that it was remarkably easy to not find what I was looking for. Even though I knew that the final product would be an assemblage of mostly random videos, I had pictured in my mind a lot of the sequences that I was hoping to find. I quickly realized that YouTube's Search engine has its own way of thinking. For instance, I would search "walking" in hope to find a person walking from "Point of View" but instead I would be find tons of Walking Dead clips. In most cases, I ended up finding completely random things but surprisingly many still applied to my theme of "Friendship". One instance is the videos of dancing. I originally had this idea of incorporating the different stages of a friendship but as I was digging upon the term Friendship I found out that activities with friends was a whole new subcategory to explore. From there, pillow fights, water gun fights, and many other videos came from. Although I was limited by what YouTube was offering up, I started to embrace that those random videos were simply giving me more ideas that I could think of and then take a couple of new directions. In the end, I concluded that the only limitation was my original idea. There is some creativity in embracing the virtual limits of YouTube results. 
  Another great thing about finding videos is that some videos would already be compilation of something that I was looking for. Finding smiling faces was particularly easy. For instance, some YouTuber decided to collected a bunch of videos from movies where actresses smile. I could then cut the video and select different of those as if I would have collected them all individually by myself. This not only added originality to my video but saved me a lot of time. One limitation to those findings on the other hand is that not every video was suitable for the final montage. Some of them had terrible quality. Others were so long (over an hour long) where it became complex to download the whole thing and edit it. It feels as if some videos were almost immediately disqualify because of their "digital" properties. Fortunately, YouTube filter options helped narrow my searches by selecting shorter videos.