Broadway

After reading and watching many of the articles and videos on the Stage Door blog I decided that my favorite video was the "Michael Buble: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas." I chose this video because I celebrate Christmas and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" is my favorite song to listen too around the holidays. This version was even better because he has a live orchestra playing behind him that plays the song so peacefully. Buble's voice is also very pleasing to the ear, you can see he sings with a lot of emotion as he perfects ever note. The lighting on the stage also sets a very nice mood, there is a Christmas tree to his right as expected as well as a large piano, with red and green lights illuminating behind him. The setting gives me a warm feeling just like Christmas as If I was sitting around a fireplace. Many of these videos were amusing but this one really stood out and spoke to me.
Broadway is a very important part of entertainment today that puts on magnificent shows over and over. One that I have seen in the past is "The Lion King", I saw this about a year ago and was blown away at how great it was and how talented the actors were in singing, dancing and acting. I would definitely recommend it and would see it again.

Skittes Grid

For my Skittles grid project, I picked the smiling face emoji with sunglasses on. The actual emoji is a yellow face with black sunglasses but I decided I wanted to create it my own way with some fun colors. Therefore, I decided to make my emoji with a green face like The Incredible Hulk, and with red sunglasses. I also chose red for the mouth because it looks as if someone is smiling with just their lips. This project, while it was quite tedious and stressful to perfectly align each skittle in each row was very fun to work on. The best part was eating all the skittles after!

Carolina Chocolate Drops

Instead of regular class on February 12th, we instead attended Reeves theater to watch a documentary on The Carolina Chocolate Drops. The documentary was very interesting as it took you through the ups and downs that they had as a group. I thought the documentary was very well made but could've been a little shorter. It was often repetitive or had unneeded scenes in it that could've been cut out to make viewers more engaged because i found myself often zoning out. The music they made is not really what i normally listen to but it was still cool to see how popular they became, and ultimately how they won a grammy which is really hard to do. I liked seeing the behind the scenes drama that unfolded after Rhiannon Giddens and Dom Flemons broke up and then Rhiannon got a new boyfriend. As well as the troubles they had as a group which led to Justin Robinson leaving the group in 2011. My favorite artist from the group was Justin before he left the group. i liked him because of his wide variety of musical instruments that he played. im glad to see that after all these years the members are still doing good. Rhiannon and Dom both released solo albums that became very popular and Justin attended college and got a degree in environmental conservation.

CNN: The Most Creative Youtube Videos

The CNN video about the most creative youtube videos was very interesting to watch. The slowed down video of the food being thrown up was fascinating, its crazy how far video enhancements have come that we can slow down videos frame by frame to get every little detail of what happens while it the food was in motion before it came crashing back down on the table. the video looks almost as if there is no gravity as the food and other things on the table seem to float up into the air and then hold stagnant before returning down to the table and causing a major mess of food and drink. The animated John Lennon video was a cool concept that i have not seen before. The creators took the words Lennon spoke in the 1969 interview  and then converted it into an animated interview with pictures and designs that describe what he is saying and tell the story in a visual way. The third video which shows a man moving his arms and then the frame freezing where he moves them to make a collage of his arms everywhere resembled a tree in my opinion, this concept of creativity was very pleasing to the eye. The different levels of creative videos that are on the internet are staggering and its crazy how far technological advancements have come.

Madame Butterfly

    The "Madama Butterfly" opera was a very interesting and brilliant claymation. My first impression of the video was how amusing the video was, it takes a lot of patience and time in order to make a clay video such as "Madama Butterfly" because the creator has to constantly move the dolls in order to make it look smooth and like it is a real figure.
    The overall video was very depressing. The story was about a young lady who fell in love with a soldier as he was deployed in Japan but unfortunately for her he had to leave to continue serving his country.  The women ends becoming pregnant and raises the child herself until the soldier returns and takes the child away from the mother just as he did from all the women he had impregnated as his car is filled with children. The ending to this opera was very sad as the mother breaks her body apart as she now has no reason to live without her child. Overall, this opera was impressive and interesting to watch.