Just another Manic Monday…

Posted by kpyrtle

| November 11, 2012

This is video assignment 467, Song Visualization. It is worth 2 stars.

“Pick a song (or a minute from a song) and create a video that displays a picture representing the lyrics. Feel free to make it silly or stick with the theme of the song.”

I chose this assignment because I am always watching music videos like this on YouTube, I thought it would be fun to create my own! I chose to do Manic Monday by The Bangle because I think it is a song everyone relates to. After all, who likes Mondays?

I HATE MONDAYS. I love the feeling of sleeping in over the weekend and relaxing, until Monday comes and it is back to reality. I always feel like the weekend spoils me, hearing Monday’s alarm to wake up comes as a shock to me every week, it never fails.

This song is a story in itself, about a Morning. I think many have had mornings like this (hopefully I am not alone here). I really like songs like this one that contain a story (especially when it is a relate-able one).

This assignment wasn’t to difficult. First I saved all of the photos into a folder, the photos came from Flickr. I opened up Movie Maker and dragged all of the photos into the program, then I placed them in the correct order. Once the pictures were in the order that they were going to be used, I dragged the sound file into Movie Maker as well (it has been waiting patiently in my iTunes for years). Next I trimmed about 10 seconds off of the long intro to the song and changed the amount of seconds each picture was displayed so that it would appear at the right moment in the song. (This took quite a while and I think I listened to the song about 50 times). Once the timing was all working, I added a title slide and credits at the end.

Photos Used:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/23644442@N04/5331520786/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8782969@N04/2943304181/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/blamethemonkey/5412683079/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ocell/4201081/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cchu/4440403721/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zuzana_baranova/2919215094/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/flyingman/131284292/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brize/7807214458/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/free-stock/7028523331/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/andysarmysellscalgary/5843161854/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/12674411@N03/3057895966/