Music Video Finale

Finally, my last blog post of the year! For our last project of the year, we are creating music videos. My team is me and Makaio Gonsalves. The song we decided to make a music video for is Big Green Tractor by Jason Aldean. The real meaning of our song is about a couple going on a date with the guys "Big Green Tractor". Since this was pretty weird, we decided to make the story about two friends who don't know what to do so they go on the one friends tractor. Our story starts off with two guys bored and not knowing what to do. Then one friend gets an idea to go on his tractor. Throughout the story, they ride the tractor all over and have fun doing it. Our storyline matches with our lyrics because It's talking about two people going for a ride on a tractor. Throughout our music video, me and Makaio ride around the woods, pasture and other places which is talked about in our song, this also matches the lyrics of our song.

For our projects, we are supposed to create a music video that shows storyline as well as lyrics. The shots in our project are supposed to be quickly changing, interesting shots. My favorite fast-edit montage sequence in our music video is when the chorus begins. The chorus talks about riding the tractor in the woods and pasture. When the chorus begins the lip-sync quickly changes to a shot of me riding the tractor in the woods then switches to me riding in the pasture. I really liked the way this turned our because it matches the lyrics really well. I think that this sequence makes our music video more interesting and engaging to the audience.

Like last year, our last project is a music video. I feel that a music video can showcase our best work in many ways. The first reason why it can showcase our best work is because we got to choose our teams so we got to choose people that we work well with. The second reason why it showcases our best work is because throughout the year we learned many techniques and then in our last project we can kind of include everything we learned into one piece. And finally, the last reason why it showcases our best work is because it's very free, in this project we basically have a blank canvas where we can think of a storyline to match the lyrics of a song. Overall I think that this project is a really good end of the year project because it lets us create a fun piece of work to end the year with.

Big Green Tractor by Jason Aldean

She had a shiny little beamer with the rag top down

Sitting in the drive but she wouldn't get out

The dogs were all barking and wagging around

I just laughed and said ya’ll get in

She had on a new dress and she curled her hair

She was looking too good not to go somewhere

I said whatcha wanna do baby I don’t care

We can go to the show or we can stay right here and

I can take you for a ride on my big green tractor

We can go slow or make it go faster

Down through the woods out to the pasture

Long as I’m with you it don’t matter

Climb up in my lap and drive if you want to

Girl, you know you got me to hold on to

We can go to town but baby if you’d rather

I’ll take you for a ride on my big green tractor

I said we can fire it up and I can show you around

Sit up on the hill and watch the sun go down

When the fire flies are dancing and the moon comes out

We can turn on the lights and head back to the house or

We can take another ride on my big green tractor

We can go slow or make it go faster

Down through the woods out to the pasture

Long as I’m with you it really don’t matter

Climb up in my lap and drive if you want to

Girl, you know you got me to hold on to

We can go to town but baby if you’d rather

I’ll take you for a ride on my big green tractor

Animated Life Lessons

My teammates for our animation project were Hailee and Ashton. They were both pretty good teammates and were pretty productive. Hailee and Ashton both are pretty serious people when it came to completing our work. Hailee is the kind of person who likes to draw and takes her time on her work to make it good. Ashton is more of a hard worker and was good working under pressure when our deadline became closer. I am the kind of person who gets the job done quickly and makes sure everyone has their parts done and everything is taken care of.

Although our animation wasn't very humorous, we tried our best to include at least one somewhat humorous part into our animation. The funniest humorous part of our animation would probably be the fact that I sold the pumpkin for $10,000. I mean is pretty unrealistic which made it somewhat funny. The life lesson of our animation was that in order to be successful, we need to work hard. This lesson was showed by Hailee deciding to work hard one morning which resulted in her finding something which later saved the farm. This life lesson relates to our audience because everybody gets lazy and doesn't always want to work. It also relates because without working, we wouldn't be able to make money or really... live.

Considering we have never worked together, well ever, I think we did pretty good and were pretty productive during our work sessions. From the first day, we started working on our project my teammates and me worked pretty well together. Also during the work sessions, we all contributed and shared our opinions. The biggest challenge was deciding who would do what and how we could spread the work out evenly. Another challenge we faced was getting all our animations in photoshop to match the timing with our script in iMovie. The best team moment during production would have to be when we finally turned in our project and finally felt relieved after our long and difficult project. Overall I felt that we worked pretty good as a team other than our few challenges.