My Final Blog....

From the start I wanted to pick a song that I liked and would not get sick of, which was a success. Even now that I am done I still enjoy the song. Before I started anything I listened to the song, made a few friends listen to the song, and a few family members and compared what we all pictured when we heard it. Everyone was all over the place, so I decided to look at youtube.com and see if anyone had every produced a video for "Flying on a Cloud" by The DaDa Weatherman, and sure enough, there was. Everything I watched was comparable to my idea of scenery rather then a plot. However, I didn't want that, and it's not what everyone else envisioned. So from there, I made a list of things that stood out to me in the song and planned on making a video about a family who wanted a perfect life, but it quickly went downhill for me.

Casting a few kids was no problem for me, however, finding adults to play the part of the parents was IMPOSSIBLE. I now know where I get my stage freight/anxiety from, because no one from my family was willing to help. From there, I had to change everything. I decided to go with my original idea of using my Alaska footage from last year and put it to use. I loved the thought of using it because now I'll appreciate the video in the future and it won't be just another college project. 

My reasoning from the beginning for wanting to make my video more "earthy" is because I like the concept of you can be going through the same things as the person singing the song. I wanted it to be about the listener and not the people in the video. Your environment can change your mood, and that is exactly what I took away from the song. With my footage, I wanted the viewer to see that even if they are down or depressed, they can see everything the world has to over, and it may even benefit them. The viewer can see all the things I did from sun up to sun down and truly be effected by it. 

Even though my skill with music video making is not where I would like it to be, I am still happy with the outcome of my video.