This is why I hide inside my apartment during all football game days. In other news, Strawburry17 (Meghan Camarena) released a new music video today for the song 1,000 Ships by Rachel Platten. As you probably know, I very rarely (if ever) embed videos in my blog that are not made by me, but I think this video is worth a spot here.If you watched it and don’t get it, watch it again. It’s a good-enough video that it’s worth watching a few times.If you still don’t understand it, here’s my interpretation of the video.The character played by Jason Munday (the guy in the purple shirt and the main protagonist of the storyline) exists sometime in the future (I’m guessing 2015) and has built a time machine to go back and save the life of the character played by Meghan, the girl in the gray shirt and ponytail. As you can see by the newspaper story on the wall, Meghan’s character was killed while driving out to a café downtown to meet her friend Cindy after Cindy changed her plans last minute.Unfortunately, this time machine that Jason’s character built isn’t the best time machine in the world and can only work three times before breaking down. He uses two of his three trials and fails, but gathers valuable knowledge about the setting and environment to devise a plan that will allow him to stall Meghan enough to avoid having her drive downtown and get killed by the vehicle collision. On his third and final attempt, he builds enough confidence and experience to successfully carry out his task and save a life.The detail with which this story is told is incredible. Every object in the video has a significance that interlaces together to create an intricate plot progression. For example, even the way in which the newspaper articles and photographs are adhered to the wall has a subtle significance – the red sticky string is in the pattern of a heartbeat up until the newspaper article in which the girl’s death is announced, which at that point, it becomes flat, signifying death. If this was done intentionally, it shows a sophisticated level of attention to detail (even though I did also notice some continuity discrepancies such as random filming equipment in the background and the time on the iPhone being inconsistent).The use of the timing of the music was also excellent. If you pay attention to the music, the ups and downs of the story match with the ups and downs of the music, and in many transitions, they match up down to the very last second (even though I think they missed precision timing on one of the most important transitions around at 2:32 – the point in time at which the cup hits the table should match up exactly with the return of the chorus, which is when Platten sings “eyes” and the bass guitar returns).And finally, the use of special effects was outstanding. The effects are heavy at some points, but all of them were well-fitting and well-executed. I noticed that some of the effects kicked in a little bit early at times, but I’m guessing those were to put in to cover up any problems they might have had with chromakey. (Did you notice the time travel morph effect says “The End” at the end of the video?)The one full complaint I have about this video is the selection of one of the backing actors – the individual with an aqua-blue iPhone case who acts as the hero in the second trial and gets his water spilled in the third trial. He seemed completely expressionless and the emotions he showed (or, the lack of emotions he showed) did not fit with the heroic nature of the character he was supposed to play.Overall, I thought this video was good enough to claim a spot on my YouTube favorites playlist (which is extremely difficult to do). If you also liked it, you should subscribe to Strawburry17 for similar videos (not all of her videos are this sophisticated and complex, but good nonetheless). This Is Why I Hide
Apparently there’s a football game tonight, and ESPN is on the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s campus to do a pre-game show.If you’re not aware already, I live more or less next door to Camp Randall Stadium, so thousands of people have walked past my apartment today screaming and yelling.This is why I hide inside my apartment during all football game days. In other news, Strawburry17 (Meghan Camarena) released a new music video today for the song 1,000 Ships by Rachel Platten. As you probably know, I very rarely (if ever) embed videos in my blog that are not made by me, but I think this video is worth a spot here.If you watched it and don’t get it, watch it again. It’s a good-enough video that it’s worth watching a few times.If you still don’t understand it, here’s my interpretation of the video.The character played by Jason Munday (the guy in the purple shirt and the main protagonist of the storyline) exists sometime in the future (I’m guessing 2015) and has built a time machine to go back and save the life of the character played by Meghan, the girl in the gray shirt and ponytail. As you can see by the newspaper story on the wall, Meghan’s character was killed while driving out to a café downtown to meet her friend Cindy after Cindy changed her plans last minute.Unfortunately, this time machine that Jason’s character built isn’t the best time machine in the world and can only work three times before breaking down. He uses two of his three trials and fails, but gathers valuable knowledge about the setting and environment to devise a plan that will allow him to stall Meghan enough to avoid having her drive downtown and get killed by the vehicle collision. On his third and final attempt, he builds enough confidence and experience to successfully carry out his task and save a life.The detail with which this story is told is incredible. Every object in the video has a significance that interlaces together to create an intricate plot progression. For example, even the way in which the newspaper articles and photographs are adhered to the wall has a subtle significance – the red sticky string is in the pattern of a heartbeat up until the newspaper article in which the girl’s death is announced, which at that point, it becomes flat, signifying death. If this was done intentionally, it shows a sophisticated level of attention to detail (even though I did also notice some continuity discrepancies such as random filming equipment in the background and the time on the iPhone being inconsistent).The use of the timing of the music was also excellent. If you pay attention to the music, the ups and downs of the story match with the ups and downs of the music, and in many transitions, they match up down to the very last second (even though I think they missed precision timing on one of the most important transitions around at 2:32 – the point in time at which the cup hits the table should match up exactly with the return of the chorus, which is when Platten sings “eyes” and the bass guitar returns).And finally, the use of special effects was outstanding. The effects are heavy at some points, but all of them were well-fitting and well-executed. I noticed that some of the effects kicked in a little bit early at times, but I’m guessing those were to put in to cover up any problems they might have had with chromakey. (Did you notice the time travel morph effect says “The End” at the end of the video?)The one full complaint I have about this video is the selection of one of the backing actors – the individual with an aqua-blue iPhone case who acts as the hero in the second trial and gets his water spilled in the third trial. He seemed completely expressionless and the emotions he showed (or, the lack of emotions he showed) did not fit with the heroic nature of the character he was supposed to play.Overall, I thought this video was good enough to claim a spot on my YouTube favorites playlist (which is extremely difficult to do). If you also liked it, you should subscribe to Strawburry17 for similar videos (not all of her videos are this sophisticated and complex, but good nonetheless).
This is why I hide inside my apartment during all football game days. In other news, Strawburry17 (Meghan Camarena) released a new music video today for the song 1,000 Ships by Rachel Platten. As you probably know, I very rarely (if ever) embed videos in my blog that are not made by me, but I think this video is worth a spot here.If you watched it and don’t get it, watch it again. It’s a good-enough video that it’s worth watching a few times.If you still don’t understand it, here’s my interpretation of the video.The character played by Jason Munday (the guy in the purple shirt and the main protagonist of the storyline) exists sometime in the future (I’m guessing 2015) and has built a time machine to go back and save the life of the character played by Meghan, the girl in the gray shirt and ponytail. As you can see by the newspaper story on the wall, Meghan’s character was killed while driving out to a café downtown to meet her friend Cindy after Cindy changed her plans last minute.Unfortunately, this time machine that Jason’s character built isn’t the best time machine in the world and can only work three times before breaking down. He uses two of his three trials and fails, but gathers valuable knowledge about the setting and environment to devise a plan that will allow him to stall Meghan enough to avoid having her drive downtown and get killed by the vehicle collision. On his third and final attempt, he builds enough confidence and experience to successfully carry out his task and save a life.The detail with which this story is told is incredible. Every object in the video has a significance that interlaces together to create an intricate plot progression. For example, even the way in which the newspaper articles and photographs are adhered to the wall has a subtle significance – the red sticky string is in the pattern of a heartbeat up until the newspaper article in which the girl’s death is announced, which at that point, it becomes flat, signifying death. If this was done intentionally, it shows a sophisticated level of attention to detail (even though I did also notice some continuity discrepancies such as random filming equipment in the background and the time on the iPhone being inconsistent).The use of the timing of the music was also excellent. If you pay attention to the music, the ups and downs of the story match with the ups and downs of the music, and in many transitions, they match up down to the very last second (even though I think they missed precision timing on one of the most important transitions around at 2:32 – the point in time at which the cup hits the table should match up exactly with the return of the chorus, which is when Platten sings “eyes” and the bass guitar returns).And finally, the use of special effects was outstanding. The effects are heavy at some points, but all of them were well-fitting and well-executed. I noticed that some of the effects kicked in a little bit early at times, but I’m guessing those were to put in to cover up any problems they might have had with chromakey. (Did you notice the time travel morph effect says “The End” at the end of the video?)The one full complaint I have about this video is the selection of one of the backing actors – the individual with an aqua-blue iPhone case who acts as the hero in the second trial and gets his water spilled in the third trial. He seemed completely expressionless and the emotions he showed (or, the lack of emotions he showed) did not fit with the heroic nature of the character he was supposed to play.Overall, I thought this video was good enough to claim a spot on my YouTube favorites playlist (which is extremely difficult to do). If you also liked it, you should subscribe to Strawburry17 for similar videos (not all of her videos are this sophisticated and complex, but good nonetheless).