Our next project

Me and Anna are going to do a photoshop project. We are each going to photoshop 5 photos of different types.

Photos We Lke:

Our video self assessment

We are done our video.
I think we put in lots of effort. We came in at lunch times to work on the video.
We had to do a lot of problem solving. The video got too large so windows movie maker crashed, but we solved the problem.
I learned about windows movie maker doing this project as I had never used it before.
We could have probably managed our time and resources better.
 All in all, I think the video turned out how we wanted it.

Learning Resources

A website with video making help: http://www.videomaker.com/
Another site with video production help: http://videoproductiontips.com/

My Goal this Week

My goal this week is to finish or make significant progress on the video we are making.
I will accomplish it by focusing in class and using my time wisely.
I will need to bring props and costumes and makeup for us to use in the video.
I'll need help from the other members of my group, Ria, Anna and Danielle, and Ms. Shippit, and Ms. Malloff who are helping us make the video.
It might be challenging at first but I want to make lots of progress on it this week with my group.

Video Example

This video is Marilyn Manson's the Beautiful People. We are putting it as an example because it has some things in common with a video we are planning to make. It is very creepy and has lots of strange images and clips with co-ordinate with the music. The images and clips are ambigious and disturbing. They are open to multiple interpretation. We would like to do something sort of similiar, but less complicating. We are going to have creepy clips. This is NOT the song we are planning on using. Our song will not have lyrics, so there won't be lipsinking in it, but there will just be clips of people doing things.We want it to be obviously creepy and disturbing and bizarre, but also ambigious and not too clear what is going on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ypkv0HeUvTc

Video Plan

I am making a music video with Ria, Danielle and Anna.
For our video, we will be making a music video to a strange weird expirimental song we find. (We haven't decided what yet). It will be a very strange disturbing music video with lots of distortion on it. It will involve dinosaurs, aliens, unicorns, lightsabers, interesting eye makeup and crazy people staring at the camera creepily.
We will be able to do more details once we have decided what song we are doing our creepy music video to. That is all we know for now.

Kara S. Feb 16 2011

My Top 5 Favorite Bands:

I like a variety of different bands but these are my top 5 favorites.

·         The Beatles: They are a very talented band, and I have a lot of respect for them. They had a huge impact on the musical world, and on society.  They are very well known and wrote a lot of excellent songs. They were musical geniuses and their music was revolutionary.

·         Pink Floyd: They have lots of interesting and creative music that has very interesting and thought provoking lyrics. They have a very unique sound and wrote a variety of different types of music. David Gilmour is also a very talented guitarist. They wrote the rock opera, the Wall, and are also well known for Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here.

·         Green Day: They are a socio-political punk rock band. They have very good melodies and catchy songs and interesting lyrics. They wrote two rock operas, American Idiot and 21^st Century Breakdown.

·         Metallica: They are a metal band. They are very good, and have interesting lyrics. Their songs are usually fairly heavy, both in music and in lyrics, but very good.

·         Nirvana: They are a very talented band. They wrote a lot of good songs. I just started listening to their music recently. I like them for the same reason I like all the other bands on here, because they wrote excellent music.