Welcome back once again! I have returned to provide an update as to who my group members will be for my project this time around; although, I guess you could consider it less of an update and more of a reminder since nothing has changed. With that being said, my group is once again comprised of the following candidates: Julissa Espinal, Yaneli Zelaya, and Nicole Kimmick. Unlike the first project we were tasked with completing, I am quite familiar with my group members and their respective work ethics. That then means that I know what to expect heading into this project. When it came to producing our commercial, I felt as though we had a great dynamic and a healthy environment in which there was always room for discussion without fear of being left unheard. The fact that we seem to have good chemistry means that we are able to collaborate better and compromise when necessary. That aspect is important now more than ever because of our conflicting tastes in music. Each one of us values and respects one another's input, which is why we chose to group up together again. Therefore, it is safe to say that communication is key. In fact, today we had a nearly two-hour long video call regarding what our final song choice would be for our music video. To come to a conclusion, we each agreed to produce a realistic storyline, with a beginning, middle, and end for each of our songs, eliminating those we could not create concepts for and then voting out the ones that were not as detailed. After significant discourse and contemplation, we ultimately settled on "Saturday Nights" by Weston Estate. This is because we found it to be the best song to use to convey a story with a coherent plot. I also liked the fact that because the song could be interpreted in different ways, as evident by our lengthy conversation, we will be challenged to work together to create the message that we want our audience to receive, as opposed to the one that they perceive at first glance. This also ties back into why I find filmmaking to be such an interesting avenue because it gives you the opportunity to mold the malleable minds of your audience and get them to see things from a unique perspective.
Shifting the focus over to our individual jobs this time around, we felt that we should allow everyone to expand their respective reaches on this project, especially since we've grown to be more comfortable around one another and can now exercise our creativity freely. Our last project gave us a baseline of where we were at as novice cinematographers, so I'm quite excited to see how much we can all improve on this go around as fully-fledged amateurs. Moreover, through the techniques each and every one of us has picked up over the course of our last project, we are certain to include innovative elements within our music video that set us apart from all the rest.
Since we are now working on creating a music video, I feel like leaving my blog off on a good note (pun completely intended) and using a song lyric is fitting, so in the words of Marvin Gaye, "Let's get it on" (Let's Get It On 1973).
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