"Video Killed the Radio Star": Video Project Proposal

For the video project, Mikhaela, Taylor, Kelsey, Katie and I will be working together as part of the Honors Component. We therefore will be doing 2 videos, one that is non-fiction and one that is fiction.

Our non-fiction video will be a How-to video describing how to make cookies. This would involve mixing the dough, baking the cookie and possibly decorating them.

Our fiction video will be a dramatic scene that is a spoof of 24 about a college student racing to finish a paper on time. It will be an over-dramatization of the entire process in the style of 24.

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 Title Credit: "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles

"If This Was a Movie": Film Analysis

In class we read the following article about how to best stage scense dramatically or comedically. http://sevencamels.blogspot.com/2009/01/flat-is-funny-depth-is-dramatic.html 

It claims that dramatic scenes should adhere to the following rules:

1) create depth within your staging,

2) place the "camera" in such a way as to avoid symmetry and to create diagonals within the frame, avoiding straight lines within the composition completely, and

3) whenever possible, use a darker and more limited palette without a lot of bright colors

I then found screenshots from Pirates of the Caribbean, At Worlds End. (http://framefilter.blogspot.com/2007/05/pirates-of-caribbean-at-worlds-end.html) As it is a pirate movie, it will be inherently dramatic, although comedic scenes, as they frequently do, will find their way in. 

Most of the photos found in that post about Pirates of the Caribbean have a relatively darker palette. In most of the screenshots with the ship, it is sailing forward or away in a diagonal. In addition, any time a character appears he or she is not facing directly into the camera: either their eyes are averted away or their entire face is facing away at an angle.

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Title Credit: If This Was a Movie by Taylor Swift

"Everyday I'm Shuffling": Remix Trailer Proposal

I have always been a fan of the remixed videos, especially the Shining, Scary Mary, and a recent remixed video trailer that turned Harry Potter into a teen comedy: done very convincingly may I add. So, when we were assigned this project, I was excited, but also pretty nervous, because there are some mighty big shoes to fill in terms of remixed trailers.

I eventually decided to remix the Batman Movie "The Dark Knight". This movie is an action movie, and I have decided to change it into a romantic comedy about a man, Harvey who finally got his life together when another man enters the picture and poses as a threat to his relationship with his girlfriend Rachel. It will also deal with Harvey's jealousy toward this mysterious man named Bruce.

This trailer will not deal with Batman, the Joker, or the crime that is associated with Gotham City at all because it is no longer an action movie but rather a RomCom
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Title Credit: Party Rock Anthem by LMFAO

"I Don't Care for Your Fairytale": Audio Project Proposal

For the audio project, I will be working with Mikaela Ackerman. We decided to do an audiobook adaptation of a story. The story that we will be making an audio recording is "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs" by Jon Scieszka (http://www.shol.com/agita/wolfside.htm)
The story, which is written as a newspaper article will be adapted to be a radio broadcast, to fit the story telling vehicle.
The conflicts of the story is that the Big Bad Wolf from the Three Little Pigs story is on trial, and tells his story re: why he was wrongfully accused, and attempts to explain himself and clear his name. He is fighting against the court as well as anyone who thinks he is guilty.
We will record ourselves reading the story and will either make or download the sound effects from free stock sound effects websites.

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Title Credit: Fairytale by Sara Bareilles 

"Vacation, All I Ever Wanted": Vox Pop Proposal

The question that my Vox Pop will focus around is "What is your favorite place to go on vacation?" This would be interesting to listeners because a lot of people really like to travel and see new places, and this Vox Pop could give listeners ideas on where they may like to travel next.
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Title Credit: Vacation by the Go Gos

"I See Your True Colors Shining Through": Paw Print Color Schemes

Here is the color scheme I designed for the paw print assignment.

I liked this color scheme because, first and foremost the colors look nice together. In addition, I situated the colors so that the two lighter colors and the two darker colors were not right next to each other. I put the lighter blue-green on the outside, then the dark purple, then the light pink, and finally the dark green. This makes the scheme pleasing to the eye and ensure that all of the details stand out.
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Title Credit: True Colors by Glee Cast (Originally by Cyndi Lauper)

"If Only I Could Find a Note to Make You Understand": Logo

For our logo design project I have decided to do a fictional company that has to do with music. In case you haven't been able to tell from all of my song lyric titles, music is something I am pretty passionate about, so I thought this would be a great subject to design a logo for. Below are some questions to answer in regards to my logo:

1. Who is the intended audience for your logo?  (client, age group, gender, interests, etc.) The intended audience for my logo would definitely be people who already know a thing or two about music because my company, at the moment called either "Virtuoso" or "Vivace Music Co." will probably be a publishing house who publishes choral works. Therefore, the people who will interact with my company will recognize music symbols used in my logos.
2. Does your logo reflect design trends often targeted to your intended audience?  Do you want it to? A lot of logos in the music industry focus on specific instruments and glamorizing music, or on using fancy typeface/ incorporated music symbols into their type to indicate what they are about. As a choral publishing house, my company would be more concerned about the actual music than the glitz and the glam that goes along with it, so I want to keep my logo simple and to the point.
3. If you had to summarize the style you want for your logo in a single word, what would it be? Polished. I would summarize the style of my logo in the single word polished because choral music is all about appearing polished and together as if a single voice.
4. Look at your sketch.  How will it read at a small size?  Could you simplify the design so that the basic shape will still be easy to see at a small size? I think that most of my sketches would be readable and easily distinguished at a small size especially since those I am catering to should be able to rerecognize the different parts easily.

All together, I am extremely excited to start work on this logo package project!

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Title Credit: Stereo Hearts by Gym Class Heroes ft Adam Levine