Music Video Finale

This project is a Music Video. Instead of Mr. Sanderl giving us an outline for our plan, we had to make it ourselves. The storyline that we created is about how we can do whatever makes us happy. In our case, its being lazy. Kacie, Cara, and I spend a lot of time on our computers and phones. In our video, it will show us on our computers non stop. Then someone calls us lazy, which does not make us happy. So we decide to prove to them that we don't care what they think, so we plan a food fight at the house. To show them how angry we are and that we can do what makes us happy, food and internet. We all know that our song, "Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor is a fighting song. This music video is supposed to help others understand why we just lay around and why we don't like moving. We just want have fun in the ways that make us happy.

My favorite fast-edit montage is in the beginning where it cuts to the beat of the song and the visuals are just us laying around watching Netflix, specifically Supernatural, our favorite tv show. I love it because of all the different shot angles. There is one from above Kacie's head where you can see a part of her hair and her computer screen. There is another one over Cara's shoulder looking at her phone. There is another one that is just a shot of all the trash on our bed and candy wrappers just laying all over the room. Basically the room looks like a
total mess and then its just us sitting in the middle of it. While we were filming these shots, I wasn't even paying attention, so the things I'm doing in the video are things I normally do. Its all natural. At one point, I didn't even know they were filming. I was so into my episode of Supernatural. This music video was very fun to film and I hope that comes out the video. We spent so much time just laughing and having fun. It was intense because at some points, I was laughing so hard I couldn't breathe. It was amazing and yet scary.

This last project shows our best work because we made a really fun Photoshop document. It is a cut out of Kacie, Cara, and I in the middle of singing. The title just says Eye of the Tiger and it has our names on the side. My favorite part of this image is that the background is a .gif. It spins in circles and it is the colors of a tigers eye- gold and light green. This is also a project that displays what we learned because we have shots that aren't shaky (for the most part because no one is perfect) and we have fast cutting sequences. Not to mention, we had tons of fun while filming this. I'm sure it will all come out in the video. This music video will show how we learned to use the many tools of Photoshop, how to use the cool graphics of iMovie, and how to work with others and get the job done.
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Song Title: Eye of the Tiger
Artist of Song: Survivor

Lyrics Used:

Rising up, back on the street
Did my time, took my chances
Went the distance, now I'm back on my feet
Just a man and his will to survive

So many times it happens too fast
You trade your passion for glory
Don't lose your grip on the dreams of the past
You must fight just to keep them alive

It's the eye of the tiger
It's the thrill of the fight
Rising up to the challenge of our rival
And the last known survivor
Stalks his prey in the night
And he's watching us all with the eye of the tiger

Face to face, out in the heat
Hanging tough, staying hungry
They stack the odds still we take to the street
For the kill with the skill to survive

It's the eye of the tiger
It's the thrill of the fight
Rising up to the challenge of our rival
And the last known survivor
Stalks his prey in the night
And he's watching us all with the eye of the tiger

Rising up, straight to the top
Had the guts, got the glory
Went the distance, now I'm not gonna stop
Just a man and his will to survive

It's the eye of the tiger
It's the thrill of the fight
Rising up to the challenge of our rival
And the last known survivor
Stalks his prey in the night
And he's watching us all with the eye of the tiger

Results

Animated Life Lessons

Isaac is a social, geek (not in a bad way) who loves acting, possibly bringing bullying to him. Sophia is a chill, laid-back kind of person. She is sometimes a procrastinator and doesn't care what other people think about her. I am a perfectionist, who doesn't care what other people thinks, but has to have everything really nice and perfect. In our story, I am Fantasy, the happy, perfectionist who cares what Isaac looks like and acts like. Sophia is Reality, the one who doesn't care what people think about Isaac and who is always relaxed. We show these traits by saying that once they had switched magic, Sophia starts to think about what Isaac looks like. I, on the other hand, starts to think that Isaac is fine when he is being him. Isaac shown as a normal boy who gets bullied for being the way he is.

In our story, we were supposed to have humor, but its not that funny. It is supposed to be funny when Reality says "But not until he gets rid of those shoes" and when Isaac says "I hope i'm not all mumbo jumbo in the brain." The lesson of our animation is to be yourself. Even when you think you should change yourself to fit in, stay unique. We want people to be happy, not regular. We think its important to be you and be happy and not care what other people think.

I think our level of productivity was worse than when I'm with friends. There was less communication and when you are with friends, you can go over to their house and discuss things for the project. There were all sorts of issues like people being absent or not committing or not coming in during lunch to work on it. It was a real struggle at some points. In the end, I think it turned out pretty cool. I mean, it wasn't extremely complex but that wasn't something that was required. I hope the critique goes well! Anyways, I'll see you next time. Bye my people!