Michelle Schwartz

During the summer of 2007, my friend and I took a road trip across North America. She was going to be going to the University of British Columbia in the Fall and needed to move her stuff to Canada. I volunteered to help her drive there. We left Brooklyn, drove across the States on I-80, put her stuff into storage in Vancouver, and then drove down the West Coast, ending in Oakland, California.

I shot a huge number of videos and photographs on our trip. This was my first attempt to pare that massive amount of material down into one short movie. It was shot using a Canon Powershot SD-800, edited in iMovie HD 6, and compressed for YouTube using Final Cut Studio’s Compressor.