Leaving Your Legacy, FAYM Speeches 3 Video
WORK TIME: Approx. 1 hrs
FINAL PROJECT TIME: 4min. 26sec.
CAMERA: Sony HDR-UX10
EDITED WITH: Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9.0 (on Dell XPS420 with 4GB RAM)
Leaving your legacy through the Muslim youth. This is the third in a series of speeches given by representatives of FAYM (Florida Association of Young Muslims). This post will be more personal as it is me, Jawaad Ahmad Khan, who gave the speech. My brother taped it from his seat (which was right next to the speakers). Because it was my speech, I can also talk about the actual content of the speech.
CONTENT DEVELOPMENT:
I kind of received the task of giving this speech last minute. The person who originally had to do it had to drop out at the final moment due to scheduling issues. So, I had about two days to prepare this speech. I really only spent about two hours on the Friday of the talk. I was given a sheet of suggested talking points (filled with stories of sahaba, hadith and qur’anic ayaat). I tried at first to make my speech like an anecdote. Here’s what it would’ve been like: “There once was a sixteen-year-old kid who volunteered to die. A man was going to be killed and this kid decided that he was going to die instead…This boy was none other than ‘Ali (r) who went into the Prophet’s bed to prevent him from being killed. Would you not like to be like that youth?” That’s basically the premise of it. A dramatic, mysterious story and then revealing it. I couldn’t find a proper way to tell the whole story mysteriously, so I decided to stop it. The next thing I did was review one of my favorite lectures by Muhammad Alshareef, Leaving a Legacy. I took some ideas and points through that lecture, along with the previous speeches, and came up with the above.
SET-UP:
It was a bit different because I wasn’t personally taping, but my brother did. We didn’t realize that the talk was going to be after Maghrib salah, so I had to rush and review as quickly as I could and my brother brought out the camera and taped it without the tripod. To be honest, his shot was more stable in his hand than my shots were while they were on a tripod. When I told him that he said, “Veteran” (as in he’s older, and I’m still young). 
EDITING:
I’ve been following the same trend. Inserting some b-roll footage, and then zooming in the main shot, then switching between the main shot and the zoomed in shot. Another thing I wanted to point out was that this Masjid’s microphone was exceptionally clear (no reverb or noise), mainly because it was a small masjid. Alhamdulillah some of the best audio I’ve worked with from a live event.
FINAL THOUGHTS:
Alhamdulillah, I feel it was a good talk. Do you? No? Yes? See the next line:
YOUR FINAL THOUGHTS:
Whoa! That’s right, YOU get to talk. All you gots to do is leave a comment and let me know if you love or hate the video. Write ‘video’ if you want to see more videos being produced, so I know you’re reading this.
Tell others, cuz I’m your brother, from the same mother (Hawaa bro, Adam’s our dad too 
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