for 3 stars I chose the Video Assignment Create a Lyric Video. I chose this because I have seen many of these videos on youtube and thought they were cool. They’re also very useful when trying to find out the lyrics to a song, or sing along with a song.

In order to make this video, I created a color scheme on powerpoint and set that as the background for this by putting it in iMovie. In iMovie, I added the song “Shut Up and Dance With Me” by Walk the Moon, which I downloaded from iTunes. I chose this song because it has been stuck in my head the last few days and I can’t get it out! Next, I added text to the clips in my iMovie. I looked up the lyrics on Google too, just to make sure I would get them right!

I used a bunch of different transitions and fonts, and in some parts I altered the background to go with the lyrics, to signify a part where there are no lyrics, or just to have something different.

Anyways, here it is!

Oh my god this assignment took FOREVER. I wanted to just fall the hell over when I was done. It required us to create a lyric video for a song and my stupid self chose a 5 minute song. That 5 minute song turned into 3 hours of editing and frustration and I was just like pwnodnw. But, I got it done and I’m really happy with the result. I didn’t want to do the typical static image and changing lyrics because that would have been too boring. So, I decided on different videos that (kind of) went together. The video turned out a lot better than I thought it would and it’s really good for my first. Check it out.

I chose option 1 to do 8 stars of video assignments with 4 being attributed to my character and another character from the class.

So for my first video assignment for the week I chose to create a lyric video (3 stars).

I decided to sort of connect this with our radio show which airs tomorrow night at 9 because I felt that this assignment would make that possible. When Lawrence first met Victoria, she was singing at the diner that he was eating at and as soon as she started singing, Lawrence knew he wanted her. I chose “Say Something” because it’s a slow love song that, to me, would be sung in a little diner at night. The song (sung in this version by Ella Henderson) really shows off her voice and in our show it says Lawrence heard “the voice of an angel” which is just what you hear with this song. The lyrics are also very meaningful, especially if Victoria was singing them with experience (experience with pain in a relationship and wanting more, I mean).

I think this song is also how Lawrence leaves his women. He leaves and doesn’t speak another word to them while the women are falling for him and trying to get him back. The women are thinking, “say something, I’m giving up on you.” It’s a great song and i think it fits well with Lawrence and Victoria’s situation.