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 Hey everyone this is Hunter Pangia and welcome back to my blog! Recently I have not been in school because of Thanksgivng break. I have been taking this time to relax, have fun, and prepare myself for this music video. In today's blog, I will be telling you what I did over this break. The weekend going into break I visited Universal Studios Orlando resort. When I was there, I went to all of the theme parks. Universal also had a Holiday parade going on so this was a perfect time for me to observe and take notes for what I could do for my music video. I observed that in order to have a good music video, I need a lot of lights and decorations. The music is also a key factor for a music video which is why I have the perfect song. While I was there I also went on plenty of thrillers called roller coasters. My favorite ride was the Velocicoaster for one reason. It started pouring down rain and they didn't shut the ride down so I was able to go on it in the front row. It was the craz...

 Hey everyone this is Hunter Pangia and welcome back to another blog! In these past few days my group and I have been working on our storyboard for our music video so we can get a visual of what it will look like. Well after all our hard work we have finally completed it and we are ready to show it. Enjoy! Scene 1: The first scene will take up 16 seconds of the music video. The actor (Hunter) is sitting on Santa's lap excited for Christmas to come. Hunter will be lip singing the lyrics of the first verse "Santa Claus is coming to town," in the first scene.  Scene 2: The second scene will be a lot of cross cutting between different actors acting out a new verse. The verse is "You better watch out, you better not pout, you better not cry I'm telling you why." We will have three actors acting at this very verse in different locations.  Scene 3: The third scene is going to be Hunter repeating the hook of the first scene. The only difference that the hook is slig...

Hey everyone this Hunter Pangia signing in and welcome back to another blog! This may sound ironic but there has been yet another setback due to Tropical Storm Nicole. We haven't been in school this past week however my group and I have been communicating and working on our project as needed. For today's blog I will be discussing our future plans in creating this music video. As I said lot's has been keeping us from working so these plans are not finalized but they are an idea of what we have to come.    Props: The props we will be using for this music video will be played by ear. One prop we would like to use is a bed which will be used for scenes where the child is sleeping waiting for Santa. We would also like to use candy canes since that gives a better Christmas feeling. We would also like to use fake gifts because in Christmas you receive gifts so this will be going with the stereotypes. We would also like to use a Santa Claus actor to give our music video even more C...

 Hey everyone this is Hunter Pangia signing in and welcome back to my blog! Now that we have chosen our song which is Santa Claus is coming to town by The Jackson Five we have to do some research. For this project we've researched a handful of Christmas Music Videos since we are using a Christmas song. The purpose of this is to gather an understanding of what shots, editing  techniques, and strategies are used for this type of music video. What I've noticed is that the music videos typically start out with a medium close up of a child as well as a reverse shot. This brings the focus to the child and hints the audience that the child is looking at another subject in awe. The angle used is a high angle to give the child that powerless, innocent look. The video would then switch to the other main subject which is typically a magical figure which was what the little kid was looking at. The angle used would be a low angle giving this subject the power in this sense. The music video...

 Hey everyone! This is Hunter Pangia signing in and welcome back to another blog! In today's blog, I will be explaining my group for this upcoming music video. Last time my group consisted of Anayah, Robert, and Billy and I had a very successful project. The only issue at hand was making sure everyone did what they had to do on time but I made it work. I'm going to put that aside and work with this wonderful group again for this music video. As I have said before Robert is really good at recording and editing videos and if you saw our commercial you would know. Anayah has been doing a great job of staying on the same page as me allowing the rest of the group to follow along in my footsteps. Billy has been slacking recently mainly due to how tiring the last project was. I'm picking this group once again because I personally feel like I did a great job. Not everyone believed in me but I worked hard and did something I believe no other groups could do. What I did was film a co...

 Hey everyone this is Hunter Pangia clocking in and welcome back to my blog! I know it's been a while but I've been taking a break because I finished creating my pre-workout commercial not so long ago. That project was an eye-opening experience and I'm ready to move on to bigger and better things. Recently, I've been playing football in season and it's been rough but I'm getting through it. My team went on a four-game losing streak and we weren't bound for the playoffs. We kept fighting and won our last two games to clinch a spot in the 7th seed so I'm looking forward to my game this week. The school has been pretty hard because I've been getting a load of homework from teachers. With football, I end up doing all my work late at night which has been taking a toll on my mental health. I haven't been playing piano recently because of how busy I've been, which I miss doing. I usually work out as well but since I've been playing football I ha...