Sometime in October of this year, I discovered HugFun's 93" Bear which is available in Costco in North America. I didn't know of its existence until this year. I may have been living in a cave because according to the internet, this bear has been available for an affordable price for at least five (5) years. Curious about it, I went to search for it. Upon seeing it live in person, I had to get it because it was well made.
I was super excited about it because never in my life have I dreamt of owning a 93" bear. To be able to travel to it, to buy it with my own money, carry it out of the store and bring it home all by myself was a real treat. Little did I know at the time of purchase that this bear will inspire me to create videos again. I feel extremely fortunate that image capturing devices are so easily obtainable and usable. It is a lot easier to make videos now then it was ever before.
The first video in this series was randomly thought of while I was folding laundry. I don't know why but I just suddenly thought of the song "The Power" by Snap! which Jim Carrey played around with in the Bruce Almighty movie. I thought it would be funny to make a parody video of this song and change it to "The Bear". The only change made to the song would be instead of singing "I got the power" or "I've got the power" we sing "I got the bear" or "I've got the bear". At the time, I did not attempt to find audio tracks of "The Power" without people singing but looking back if I got only the background music track I doubt I would be able to do all the rapping and singing. It would have taken forever if I made my own audio track and I probably will just end up using the original. In the end, I only tried to shout over the original track so that people will hear BEAR instead of POWER. I missed it a few times but I was freestyle dancing around a gigantic bear so whatever!
Next, I wrote on my YouTube channel that I will be uploading weekly videos to feature the 93" bear. Once I wrote this down, I felt committed and compelled to make more videos with the bear. I didn't film too much but every time I feel inspired to shoot, I would shoot and make some extremely short videos. In the end, every idea that came up on my mind ended up being produced and uploaded to YouTube.
I wrote down a list of videos I made to help me keep track of my progress and also some potential ideas. I wanted to show all of the different ways you can use the bear that I can think of. I didn't want to keep repeating the same thing over and over again.
From this short filming experience, I have learned about the placement of the camera, adding closed captions or subtitles, effects of lighting and my creative process. I hope the viewers of my videos will see that I am physically active, creative, soft-spoken yet clear, fun and a great user of props.
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