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Thursday, May 28, 2015

Music Videos Rock!

                      

For our music video project, all of our team members contributed to our work. We were all actors in the video, and at least two members edited. We all have special parts to play that we need to heavily exaggerate to make it seem humorous. We all filmed something, and lip synced in the video, so we all contributed to this project. None of us really slacked off or didn't do much work.

I think the audience will enjoy our costumes the most. Since we look so ridiculous, the audience will likely love us exaggerating every single thing and being funny in a serious song. As for the actors, we all had a special part to play. I, being the cheater girl, wears a leather jacket and bright purple lipstick. I have to act humorously evil in the video too. Raf, being "Gollum", or the bad guy that takes me away from Aedan, wears devil horns, a black cape, and we put mascara on his face to make a mustache and goatee (he looks pretty ridiculous, so that will add on the cringe-worthy humor at the end). Raf has to act like a really big jerk the whole time. Aedan has to exaggerate being sad, and he wears an innocent striped shirt and looks like a nice school dude. Ana wears a bright blue dress and has to act really nice but derpy the whole time. To sum it up, when it comes to the critique, we will all be cringing because of how stupid we look, haha.

This project sums up what we learned this year because we put in tons of transitions and effects from previous projects. We slowed some clips down, and sped some up to match the time requirements. We added some visual effects to set the mood of the situation and what's happening during the video. We even added almost one transition to every clip. Everything we learned this year from the effects to the different camera angles, we tried to incorporate in this music video.
Ana and I trying to hold down Raf for his make-up

Raf getting ready to put on his costume



   

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Lyrical Livelihood

OUR LAST PROJECT FOR GT IS AMONG US!!! EVERYBODY PANIC! No, don't really... But our very last project is here: The Music Video... But before I tell you about that, allow me to tell you how my favorite song lyrics make me feel, for the sake of the subject (and science). Now it's not necessarily my favorite song, nor is it the song my team will be working on, but it definitely has the feels when I listen to it. The song is "Disarm" by The Smashing Pumpkins. And the lyrics that make me feel emotion is "Disarm you with a smile, And leave you like they left me here, To wither in denial, The bitterness of one who's left alone, Ooh, the years burn, Ooh, the years burn, burn, burn" and "used to be a little boy, So old in my shoes, And what I choose is my voice, What's a boy supposed to do?, The killer in me is the killer in you, My love, I send this smile over to you". I love these lyrics because they're so poetic and great. Plus the song is really catchy and nice.

So for my team's project, we chose to do Ramble On by Led Zeppelin. My team consists of Rafael, Aedan, and Ana. The reason we chose to do this song is because we wanted to do some kind of rock song that was both catchy, and poetic. Ramble On fit perfectly into this category, and we all like the song. There were other choices like Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Green Day and Eye of the Tiger by Journey. But our final choice seemed to be the best fit. 


So Ramble On is actually like one big reference to The Lord of the Rings, but since that would be kind of difficult to incorporate into the music video, Raf decided that the song would be about a guy who gets cheated on by his girlfriend, and he goes on a journey to find "The Queen of all his Dreams". For our video, Aedan is the guy who gets cheated on (poor Aedan), I'm the girl that cheats on him with "Gollum" or the bad guy, Raf is Gollum, or the one I go to from cheating on Aedan, and Ana is the "Queen" or the fair girl that Aedan finds. I'm feeling really good about this video, and I really hope it turns out alright and we don't embarrass ourselves on camera!