Undoubtedly, high school is a once-in-a-lifetime event. People remember the good memories by keeping yearbooks, photo strips from school dances, and other memorabilia. For senior Scarlett Gibson, senior year was an opportunity to create something unique to look back on her senior year – a YouTube channel.
Gibson and her friends got together in the summer and brainstormed ways they could remember their senior year.
“Senior year was approaching, all my friends [decided it] would be kind of fun if we all took separate videos and sent them all to [me].” Then, when the end rolls around “we can come back and revisit all these videos. So it was kind of a collective idea of all my friends, and then I volunteered [to start the channel],” Gibson said.
Gibson was also excited to expand on a hobby she already had.
“One of my biggest things to do for fun was editing videos in my spare time with my friends,” she said.
Gibson described how she has enjoyed making videos because she will be able to look back on memories that are otherwise hard to remember with such detail.
When thinking about her favorite video, the first one to come to mind was the homecoming video she filmed.
“The homecoming week video because it shows a lot of the memories that you won’t be able to recreate,” Gibson said. “But like the homecoming video, like you see the soccer game, homecoming week, and all those fun festivities. And I think that is one of the videos that people are gonna look back on and miss,” she said.
Gibson also plans to film more videos in the future.
“When college decisions come out, I was thinking of making one of those kinds of videos, then and now because in one of my early videos [we talked about] ‘Where do you think you’re gonna go to college?'” she said.
She also plans to film the winter formal and prom because those memories are hard to relive.
Through these videos, Gibson can make memories and document her senior year of high school– a memento Gibson and her classmates plan to cherish for the rest of their lives.
