In this project, I'm creating a one minute music video. I choose to work by myself in this project. I'm working by myself as I tend to work better alone. If I were to be collaborating with anyone in my class or in other media studies classes, I might get anxious about people getting distracting or forgetting to do anything relevant to this project. Also, in general I typically don't enjoy working with others as I get overwhelmed with a group of people when in a working environment. I also worry about communication and transportation with others, given the circumstances since we're in a pandemic. For example, if we had to film, it be a hassle to get a ride, if someone forgot the camera, or if someone were to cancel our arrangements altogether. It felt like a recipe for disaster. So, working by myself was the best choice as I could have everything in control according to my schedule and work ethic. Also, I found that I produce better work if I worked alone, as in past group projects I tend to have less of a better grade than if I worked alone.
I was having a lot of trouble with trying to find a song that I would like to implement in this project. I found trouble in finding songs that would elicit ideas or concepts in my head. And usually with music, I could get an idea or concept in mind, but it felt like my brain hit a brick wall in the start of this project. But in the end, for this music video, the song that I chose to do is "Crazy Now" by Aerial East. As I was listening through my playlists, this song came on, and as I was listening to it, a lot of ideas fueled my mind. Listening to this, I instantly gotten ideas and concept for filming. It felt like I had an epiphany, as I was getting the ideas and concepts that I needed to cement a creative vision. Now, moving forward I felt encourage to execute this creative vision.
The reason I chose this song because I like how extremely contradictory it is. The song has sweet sounding voice and melody posing as facade of the singer's feelings. The singer has a sweet, high, and breathy voice. There's elegant sounding flutes, violins, a piano and a harp playing in the background. Additionally, some cheerful whistling throughout the song too. Overall, judging solely on the background music, it seems like it would be a peaceful song to listen to in a lazy Sunday afternoon. But the lyrics are very telling about the singer's situation and feeling, she's clearly heartbroken and is adopting vices that are not beneficial for herself. She sing "I'm crazy now", "And when one boy didn't like me, I fell right back down", and "I filled up my summer with boys, the summer you left me." This concept with sweet facade covering up a heartbreak or just an endurance in general, really heightened my interest of this song. With this interest, I want to apply that concept to the music video. I thought using this song would be a great way to challenge how I could convey a happy peaceful facade to mask a misery or unhappiness with the medium of film.
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