For this assignment, I used this assignment. Originally, I wanted to create a karaoke version of a song. Mostly due to copyright issues that Youtube always brings, but also because I thought it would be more fun. But mostly due to copyright. I was using ClipChamp to make this video, and it was a really nice site to use with really good features. I remember using it once in high school to make a project and really liking it. But I did run into a problem where it kept crashing on me all the time, which was super annoying. I even tried to use it on a desktop computer and it still kept crashing. And of course it completely crashed and stopped working after I finished making a video that I was super proud of. I was originally going to use Adobe OpenShot, but I used it for one day and when I tried to reopen it, it completely refused. Maybe this just isn’t my best tech week :/ As my last resort, I ended up using iMovie to make and edit this video, and then uploaded it to YouTube after.

I chose the song ‘Best Song Ever’ by One Direction for this lyric video. I wanted to make this video channel the 2011-2013 era genre of lyric videos. I wanted to be silly and funny with it (the girls that get it, get it. The girls that don’t, don’t). Also, I was super frustrated that two other video programs were completely shutting down on me. So instead of making a really impressive video like I planned, I instead went for a more comically route.

I am finally done!!! This lyric video for the Create a Lyric Video Assignment (4.5 stars) took forever….. I will never again say how easy it looks to make a lyric video!! It is a lot of tedious work….

I decided to do this assignment because it looked easy and fun (that’s what I thought before doing it….). I decided that I would create a lyric video for the song that was used to represent our Contiki trip across Spain and France- Greenlight by Pitbull- using pictures from our trip to make it interesting. First, I downloaded the official music video for Greenlight to use for my lyric video’s audio. I then uploaded the video to iMovie. Then, I downloaded all of the pictures from my Spring Break trip that I could find on Facebook. I then added them to iMovie. I then went to Google to find the exact lyrics to the song- they popped right up when I searched it into Google; it only lists the songwriters (Armando Perez / Tramar Dillard / Gamal Lewis / Henry Walter / Lukasz Gottwald / Noel Fisher), not a website to link to.

I then started working on the video in iMovie. To create it, I would add a picture and then add a title for approximately each new line. I would try to add each new line approximately when it came during the song. After typing in the new line, I would listen to it back and adjust the length of the title; then I would add the next line and repeat. I would add a new picture every few lines or so. I went through and did this for the whole song, constantly checking the lyrics to make sure I was typing them correctly. It took a lot for my computer to process the audio, the short titles, and the pictures, but we made it through! You can see from the picture below how many titles and how short/ small they were!

I do no think iMovie is the best tool for creating lyric videos, or maybe I did not use it in the most effective way possible. The font got really small for some of the longer lines, which meant, I could never put two lines on one slide. The lyrics go through pretty fast because I was unable to fit many words on each slide. Most of the lyric videos I have seen, have several lines on each slide and do not move so quickly. I was unable to figure out how to do this with my technique.

I also was unable to find a tool that would allow me to separate the audio from the image that I downloaded, so iMovie had to process the images I was adding as well as the images that were part of the initial music video… This whole experience was definitely a learning process. If I had to go back, I would probably do more research in the beginning to see if there were easier ways to do what I was hoping to do…

Create Lyric Video

For this assignment, I was instructed to create a lyric video. I decided to use this assignment bank task and link it back to Jester. See how I made this connection and my finished product below:

So to begin, I had to figure out a way to make my lyric video relate to Jester in one way or another. I figured the best way I could secure a solid connection would be to pick out an accurate song that reflected a villain. Therefore, I chose to create my lyric video on the song “Sucker For Pain” by Lil Wayne, Ty Dolla $ign, Imagine Dragons, and Wiz Khalifa. To further strengthen the bond between the lyrics and Jester, I added the picture I’ve used all semester long that has represented Jester’s creepy smile. Here is the step-by-step process of my creation:

1. I downloaded Sucker For Pain from youtube and converted it into a mp3, opened imovie, and imported the file to my media on the application.
2. Then, I googled the lyrics to the song. I ended up using the lyrics Google Music had to offer. They were the most accurate.
3. Next came the fun part, I had to make sure all of the words showed up perfectly on the screen to match the tempo of the song. This was the most time-consuming and frustrating part.
4. After a quick run through to make sure everything ran smoothly, I was pleased with the outcome and uploaded it to youtube!

For this week, I did a video assignment worth 5 stars. The goal of this assignment was to create a lyric video. I used iMovie to create the video and I used the website vid to mp3 to download the song. Sadly, I knew most of the lyrics to the song so I didn’t have to look them up… I kept the backgrounds pretty basic for this video because this song has a lot of words and I felt like that should be the main focus of the video. I did add some cool transitions to make the words pop a little more when they appeared on the screen. After I finished the video, I uploaded it to Youtube.

Enjoy!