I finally finished my video yesterday!

I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it. If you like it I would be honored if you shared it. There are more projects to do this summer so don't worry. Ill keep posting on this blog!

     Music is hard and also I have a job. So last week I was trying to invent the base of a song and as I was absentmindedly bouncing a tennis ball on the ground outside, I began to hum. I liked what I was humming so I quickly grabbed my phone and recorded what I had just hummed. I liked my humming a lot and I decided to use it as the music for my video. I planned on adding more instruments to it when I got the chance. Then I got a job as a nanny and now I don't have a lot of time to spend on my video. Luckily I get weekends off so I can work on the last bits of my videos then. This should be the part of the project that takes the least time. This is just the finishing touches phase, right?
     Yesterday and today I tried to work with the recording I have. I have tried several instruments but it is much more difficult than I thought it would be. My piano's pitch doesn't match the pitch of my recording. I am too inexperienced with the mandolin and the chords I've been trying to use sound terrible. The only thing that has sort of been working is my old clarinet from grade school. I'm glad that I thought of it. I think after I do more recordings of the clarinet I am going to try using the piano again. I have a better grip of the original recording so maybe this time I will be able to figure out effectively use the piano. Wish me luck! I hope I'll be done with this video soon!

My dearest blog, Im sorry I haven't updated you as frequently as I used to. I still love you I just completely forgot that you existed. The probably doesn't really prove my point. Haha. Well anyway, I finished all of my illustrations for the video. I have also condensed all of the clips and started editing the timings on my video. I have added the typography to the video too. All I have left is the music and the narration and then I am done!

All of the completed illustrations

I have been working hard on my project I promise. I have a bit of composer block (writers block for composers!) because I can't seem to decide what I want the music to sound like. I think it's because I have too many options. That probably sounds crazy but because of all of these choices I have I feel like it has to sound fantastic! I think limitations encourage creativity. I have no limitations. I need to find a way to limit myself and relaaaaax. I know that this pressure is only created by myself but I am a scary person! I have a very abstract idea of what I want to create. I need to somehow capture the personality of the story and set a mood. If that isn't ambitious enough, I also want to somehow make people feel inspired as soon as they click on the link for my video. The first note would shoot them strait into joy, or maybe I could slowly bring them into a feeling of intrigue. I want them to smile at my video. Yes, very ambitious. Ive been trying to bombard myself with things that give me that feeling. One of these things is the video below. Im hoping that if I listen to it enough the inspiration will start oozing out of my ears and fingers. I hope it works. Wish me Luck!

But really watch the whole series. I really love it. Im sure you will too.
My favorites are part 2 and 7.

Boy! It has been quite a while since I have updated my blog. Well maybe only a week but that is a lot in internet time. Last weekend was my families most cake filled weekend of the year. My sister's birthday was on sunday which we celebrated on saturday and my dad's 60th birthday was on monday. So we had two birthday cakes to eat. You're probably wondering why I'm telling you these random family cake facts. Its because on top of those two cakes I really wanted to make cupcakes. So I did and they were pretty awesome.

Cupcakes!

The cake I made with the extra cupcake mix and other ingredients.

       These magical cupcakes are lemon blueberry cupcakes filled with lemon curd and topped with cream cheese frosting. They are the fanciest cupcakes I have ever made and I think they are the best tasting too. I got the recipe from this website (http://theregoesthecupcake.com/2011/05/16/lemon-blueberry-cupcakes/) except I made cream cheese frosting instead of mascarpone cheese frosting and I used a different lemon curd recipe because I didn't have any corn starch. I still have a lot left. They are incredibly filling and I don't know what to do!
     I think it is time to talk about my video project and what I've been up to with that. The day before yesterday I painted two more illustrations. I really like them. I think I am getting better at my color choice and my painting speed. Today I spent all day condensing my videos. Condensed more than two hours of film into 6 and a half minutes. Whats even better is my computer didn't completely freak out. That means my system of working with film is working! One thing I did notice is that the first clips are getting lighter in color as they go back and forth between iTunes and iMovie. I don't really know how to fix that since I am moving all the videos at the highest quality I can which is 1080p. Hopefully it wont be too visible when I'm done editing. I think Im just a bit of a perfectionist. I hope you have anice day. I'l update again soon!

The two new illustrations!