Week Two: Videos and My Struggle

     This week I decided to start working on the videos that would be in my project. This is going to be a lot harder than expected... The program I planned on using is WeVideo, although it doesn't work on my laptop because it uses safari and it is not available there. This was not good but it did give me a chance to research. I tried searching for programs that you can layer sounds on. This was unsuccessful because they all require a download and I am not allowed to download. Thank goodness I ranted about this to Sophia because she knew exactly what to do!

     She said that if I took the videos on my phone and e-mailed them to my GAFE account I could download them onto drive and work on the video at school. The video could still be created on WeVideo because on the Chromebooks we use google chrome which works with the program! Thank goodness I had Sophia to help me because I was really worried! THANKS SOPH. Other than that I was able to research STOMP and am going to use that as one of my resources for this project. Everything is going swimmingly now I just have to take the rest of the photos and record my voice. 

Wish me luck,

         Kate ♥

Week One: The Beginning of my Genius Hour

        This year I am doing a Genius Hour/Passion Project! This is just a creative way of showing what you're passionate about and sharing it with others. My Genius Hour Project is all about music! It's an interpretation and visual representation of Lorde's song "Royals". Wow! That is unnecessarily professional. For this project I'm going to sing the song "Royals" but instead of using an instrumental track from YouTube I am going to use common sounds and objects to create the music myself. I would love to pair this with a video starring myself too. I'm not really sure how I'm going to show this to people but I think that I would love to share it with our music teacher for her to show around!
         For this project I really want to show that you don't need money to create, be good at, or enjoy music. For this reason my goal is to spend $0 while creating this masterpiece 😋! For this to work I need to record all the different sounds I'd like to use and then layer them on top of each other in the correct timing on a free video app (like WeVideo). I also need to record my singing and the video itself. For the video I think I want to have some shots of me singing (or lip sinking) in normal everyday places, just playing around with my friends, and of the beats being created (ex. person walking, pen clicking etc.)


Wish me luck,
                       Kate ♥