self portrait idea

sooo here is what I'm thinking for my self portrait. I don't want to talk about my whole life in 3 minutes, because that is way too much and way too vague. I have had an awesome life so far, so would just be too much to say about 21 great years. So what I'm going to do is narrow it down to my experience with leaving for college. This was a lotttt more difficult for me than for pretty much anyone I know because I am a huge homebody, and for some reason I decided to not only leave NY state, but to actually venture south of the mason dixon line, to sunny NC. So I would like to portray my feelings about not only leaving behind my friends, family, and home, but also the experience and emotions of starting a four year long distance relationship, which was quite daunting at the time. I have gathered a bit of home movie footage that I may or may not use, but if I do it would only be in the very beginning. Other techniques I'd like to do to visualize this is a very basic animation, voice over narration, and found footage. I would like to represent my emotions through metaphors in nature (through found footage), because the environment is very important to me. The music will be a single guitar recorded specifically for this project. This will be a self portrait of an emotional experience and growth, rather than of my physical growth over the years. I am a little nervous because it is a really personal subject, and I have a really hard time talking about feelings and stuff... but I am going to try. My boyfriend was a little perplexed when I told him I was going to record him singing "you are my sunshine" for a school project, but he is being a good sport about it, not that he has much of a choice.