Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Rest of Critiques (Continuation from Mid-Term)
Critiques (Remaining Videos)
15. NASA: "Money"
The video starts off with dollar bills falling from the sky. It then begins to show a variety of different things that money can buy. The video/music is reggae mixed with a little bit of hip hop. Even though money is the main object that can get you just about anything you want; as the lyrics say, "Money is the root of all evil". If you allow it, money could eventually consume you if it is not used properly. Which is how many people throughout the world end up in debt, or is forced to foreclose their place of residence.
16. NASA: Hip-Hop (feat. KRS-One, Fatlip, Slim Kid Tre)
The video is an animated music video, that starts off with a burglar robbing a safe. He runs to an airplane which takes off, allowing him to escape. In my opinion, the bag is a metaphor for hip hop. In society today, hip hop is not how it use to be. Classic hip hop told stories, showed passion, made you appreciate the art of music. Hip Hop artists wanted the audience to feel what they felt, and understand whatever they went or were going through in life. Now, there is no substance behind the music.
17. Community Voice mail Animated PSA
This video starts off with a homeless man explaining what happened in his life throughout the day. The main thing that was out of the ordinary was he would use a payphone to check his voice mail. He then goes into detail about how Community Voice mail provided him with his own number to put on job applications. Six months later, he had a job and pointed out that instead of sleeping in his car, he drove it to work. This video was a fun way of luring people to go on the community voice mail website.
18. A History of Evil
This vieo refers to the things that were evil in the world or caused some sort of turmoil. the brutes were creatures that ate humans, and the gods of Olympus also abused their servants. When the plagues came, a lot of people died; however, God saved who he felt deserved to be saved. Eventually, the individuals who were slaves, servants, etc. began to take a stand. Women began rejecting their devoted masters, and started to use their intelligence to get ahead in life. According to the video, evil was transformed into rock music, which was looked at as a way of expression and freedom.
19. The Flower
A flower blossoms, and ends up being the cure to make people happy, healthy, be in love, get raises at work, etc. Unfortunately, a scientist finds the flower garden and destroys it; causing people to revert back to their unhappy actions. As it rains, another flower comes out of the ground; however, when one of the people saw it and attempted to pick it up he was shot to death by another character. Because of the scientist banning the flower, the town became worse than what it was before. At the end, it shows that this was a video to encourage people to end marijuana prohibition.
20. Sita Sings The Blues
This video depicts events fromt he Ramayana. In this story, Prince Rama was cast out of his father's court, at the request of his father's favorite queen. The queen was granted one favor for saving the king's life, and her request was to banish her own son so she could attempt to secure his inheritance. His wife Sita joined her husband; however, she was kidnapped by the demon king, Ravana. Rama rescued her, by killing Ravana, and they eventually went back to the palace, where Sita became pregnant. Rama began to act out of place, and asked his brother to abandon Sita in the forest. She gave birth to their sons, and raised them on her own. A few years later Rama finds Sita, and overwhelmed by the reunion, she wanted to be killed to cleanse her from the world.
21. Georgia Ann Muldrow- Run Away
This video is a music video for soulful singer Georgia Anne Muldrow's "Run Away". In this song, she is saying she feels like she is finally free, and she just wants to get away. In order to feel free, she is saying to fly away. To get away from all your troubles, and enjoy life while you can. This video was very creative, and the animations fir perfectly with the song.
22. Distrakt- SUP featuring SADAT X
The video starts off with an urban puppet master dangling a puppet over the city. This music video resembled a video game. Distrakt is the hero trying to stop the mad scientist. SADAT X is Distrakt's sidekick, driving their helicopter to catch up to the bad guy. The scientist created to destroy the city. Distrakt caught up to him and destroyed him and his ship.
23. Madlib- Take It Back
This music video takes place in the "urban" part of a city. A male character is driving around his neighborhood, and as he does, you see the variety of things that is going on. There are people smoking, drinking, shooting, throwing cookouts, gambling, etc. I did not really care for this video because I could not understand anything that was being said, and the video did not make any sense. I would not watch this video again, or recommend it to others.
24. Madrillian- All Caps
The video is based off of a comic back. It starts off with scientists working on a potion, and something ends up going wrong. The main scientist becomes very big and muscular, resembling the Incredible Hulk. He puts on a disguise, trying to hide the formula; however, some henchmen captured him. He escapes, but the people still chase him. The video ends like the end of a comic book, asking will he escape?
25. Cornelius- Omstart
This video starts off with a white drop falling into a puddle, and ends up forming a unique shape with four horns attached to it. Throughout the video, there are a lot of unique shapes moving and bouncing around. The main shape I noticed resembled a dog; however, it had mini spheres shooting out of its tail onto the top of its head. It runs into another object shaped the same way; but, the second one collapsed and turned into thousands of tiny spheres. The first shape sucked up the spheres, and when he spit it out, it came out as a cloud and slowly floated away. In my opinion, it was as if the shapes loved each other, but had to separate.
26. Cornelius- Sleep Warm
This video is a lullaby to make sure a baby has a good night sleep. The lyrics are telling the baby to sleep warm and sleep tight when the lights go off. When a baby falls asleep on you, they feel secure and loved. The sound of a heartbeat is very soft and soothing, which lets babies nod off comfortably. A baby needs to be comfortable and warm when they sleep, and that is how this lullaby makes individuals feel.
27. Mos Def- Casa Dey
This video is done by well-known Hip Hop artist Mos Def. The video shows him free-styling, and every word that comes out of his mouth, flowed out of his mouth in the form of simple typography. His lyrics are saying he is what he was born to be. There is not anyone in the world, who could stop him. Mos Def is an underrated Hip Hop artist who needs to be recognized a lot more than what he is now.
28. Nike x Foot Locker x Cool Kids Get Fresh Air.
I really enjoyed this Foot Locker commercial. Amar'e Stoudemire starts off by skateboarding and text DeSean Jackson. While DeSean is getting his tattoo he texts Chris Bosh. All three of them get together and go to a bakery, but instead of pastries, they were baking shoes. All three of them got the shoes they wanted and walked out of the store as happy customers.
29. Daft Punk- Typography
"Work It Harder Make It Better Do It Faster Makes Us Stronger More Then Ever Hour After Our Work Is Never Over." Those were the words repeated in this typography video. Eith a violet background, the words appeared in five different colors, and different sizes. The colors were: pink, white, orange, blue, and green. The colors were so simple, they really made the words come out more against the violet background.
30. Daft Typograhy 2
This video starts off with a white outline of a person surrounded by blue and yellow soundwaves, dancing. As the words appear on the screen, the soundwaves change to red and yellow. The same phrase that appeared in "Daft Punk-Typography" appeared in this video. The only difference between the two videos, is the fact that this video had more action and movement with the words. Also, the person continued to dance throughout the rest of the video.
31. Forrest Gump Type Animation
This video animated the infamous shrimp conversation between Forrest Gump and Bubba, from the award winning film "Forrest Gump" starring Tom Hanks. The word "shrimp" remained in a cursive form the entire time. As Bubba described the variety of ways shrimp could be prepared, the words scrolled across the screen from left to right. If they were not scrolling, they were dropping from the top of the screen. The remaining words appeared on screen then disappeared.
15. NASA: "Money"
The video starts off with dollar bills falling from the sky. It then begins to show a variety of different things that money can buy. The video/music is reggae mixed with a little bit of hip hop. Even though money is the main object that can get you just about anything you want; as the lyrics say, "Money is the root of all evil". If you allow it, money could eventually consume you if it is not used properly. Which is how many people throughout the world end up in debt, or is forced to foreclose their place of residence.
16. NASA: Hip-Hop (feat. KRS-One, Fatlip, Slim Kid Tre)
The video is an animated music video, that starts off with a burglar robbing a safe. He runs to an airplane which takes off, allowing him to escape. In my opinion, the bag is a metaphor for hip hop. In society today, hip hop is not how it use to be. Classic hip hop told stories, showed passion, made you appreciate the art of music. Hip Hop artists wanted the audience to feel what they felt, and understand whatever they went or were going through in life. Now, there is no substance behind the music.
17. Community Voice mail Animated PSA
This video starts off with a homeless man explaining what happened in his life throughout the day. The main thing that was out of the ordinary was he would use a payphone to check his voice mail. He then goes into detail about how Community Voice mail provided him with his own number to put on job applications. Six months later, he had a job and pointed out that instead of sleeping in his car, he drove it to work. This video was a fun way of luring people to go on the community voice mail website.
18. A History of Evil
This vieo refers to the things that were evil in the world or caused some sort of turmoil. the brutes were creatures that ate humans, and the gods of Olympus also abused their servants. When the plagues came, a lot of people died; however, God saved who he felt deserved to be saved. Eventually, the individuals who were slaves, servants, etc. began to take a stand. Women began rejecting their devoted masters, and started to use their intelligence to get ahead in life. According to the video, evil was transformed into rock music, which was looked at as a way of expression and freedom.
19. The Flower
A flower blossoms, and ends up being the cure to make people happy, healthy, be in love, get raises at work, etc. Unfortunately, a scientist finds the flower garden and destroys it; causing people to revert back to their unhappy actions. As it rains, another flower comes out of the ground; however, when one of the people saw it and attempted to pick it up he was shot to death by another character. Because of the scientist banning the flower, the town became worse than what it was before. At the end, it shows that this was a video to encourage people to end marijuana prohibition.
20. Sita Sings The Blues
This video depicts events fromt he Ramayana. In this story, Prince Rama was cast out of his father's court, at the request of his father's favorite queen. The queen was granted one favor for saving the king's life, and her request was to banish her own son so she could attempt to secure his inheritance. His wife Sita joined her husband; however, she was kidnapped by the demon king, Ravana. Rama rescued her, by killing Ravana, and they eventually went back to the palace, where Sita became pregnant. Rama began to act out of place, and asked his brother to abandon Sita in the forest. She gave birth to their sons, and raised them on her own. A few years later Rama finds Sita, and overwhelmed by the reunion, she wanted to be killed to cleanse her from the world.
21. Georgia Ann Muldrow- Run Away
This video is a music video for soulful singer Georgia Anne Muldrow's "Run Away". In this song, she is saying she feels like she is finally free, and she just wants to get away. In order to feel free, she is saying to fly away. To get away from all your troubles, and enjoy life while you can. This video was very creative, and the animations fir perfectly with the song.
22. Distrakt- SUP featuring SADAT X
The video starts off with an urban puppet master dangling a puppet over the city. This music video resembled a video game. Distrakt is the hero trying to stop the mad scientist. SADAT X is Distrakt's sidekick, driving their helicopter to catch up to the bad guy. The scientist created to destroy the city. Distrakt caught up to him and destroyed him and his ship.
23. Madlib- Take It Back
This music video takes place in the "urban" part of a city. A male character is driving around his neighborhood, and as he does, you see the variety of things that is going on. There are people smoking, drinking, shooting, throwing cookouts, gambling, etc. I did not really care for this video because I could not understand anything that was being said, and the video did not make any sense. I would not watch this video again, or recommend it to others.
24. Madrillian- All Caps
The video is based off of a comic back. It starts off with scientists working on a potion, and something ends up going wrong. The main scientist becomes very big and muscular, resembling the Incredible Hulk. He puts on a disguise, trying to hide the formula; however, some henchmen captured him. He escapes, but the people still chase him. The video ends like the end of a comic book, asking will he escape?
25. Cornelius- Omstart
This video starts off with a white drop falling into a puddle, and ends up forming a unique shape with four horns attached to it. Throughout the video, there are a lot of unique shapes moving and bouncing around. The main shape I noticed resembled a dog; however, it had mini spheres shooting out of its tail onto the top of its head. It runs into another object shaped the same way; but, the second one collapsed and turned into thousands of tiny spheres. The first shape sucked up the spheres, and when he spit it out, it came out as a cloud and slowly floated away. In my opinion, it was as if the shapes loved each other, but had to separate.
26. Cornelius- Sleep Warm
This video is a lullaby to make sure a baby has a good night sleep. The lyrics are telling the baby to sleep warm and sleep tight when the lights go off. When a baby falls asleep on you, they feel secure and loved. The sound of a heartbeat is very soft and soothing, which lets babies nod off comfortably. A baby needs to be comfortable and warm when they sleep, and that is how this lullaby makes individuals feel.
27. Mos Def- Casa Dey
This video is done by well-known Hip Hop artist Mos Def. The video shows him free-styling, and every word that comes out of his mouth, flowed out of his mouth in the form of simple typography. His lyrics are saying he is what he was born to be. There is not anyone in the world, who could stop him. Mos Def is an underrated Hip Hop artist who needs to be recognized a lot more than what he is now.
28. Nike x Foot Locker x Cool Kids Get Fresh Air.
I really enjoyed this Foot Locker commercial. Amar'e Stoudemire starts off by skateboarding and text DeSean Jackson. While DeSean is getting his tattoo he texts Chris Bosh. All three of them get together and go to a bakery, but instead of pastries, they were baking shoes. All three of them got the shoes they wanted and walked out of the store as happy customers.
29. Daft Punk- Typography
"Work It Harder Make It Better Do It Faster Makes Us Stronger More Then Ever Hour After Our Work Is Never Over." Those were the words repeated in this typography video. Eith a violet background, the words appeared in five different colors, and different sizes. The colors were: pink, white, orange, blue, and green. The colors were so simple, they really made the words come out more against the violet background.
30. Daft Typograhy 2
This video starts off with a white outline of a person surrounded by blue and yellow soundwaves, dancing. As the words appear on the screen, the soundwaves change to red and yellow. The same phrase that appeared in "Daft Punk-Typography" appeared in this video. The only difference between the two videos, is the fact that this video had more action and movement with the words. Also, the person continued to dance throughout the rest of the video.
31. Forrest Gump Type Animation
This video animated the infamous shrimp conversation between Forrest Gump and Bubba, from the award winning film "Forrest Gump" starring Tom Hanks. The word "shrimp" remained in a cursive form the entire time. As Bubba described the variety of ways shrimp could be prepared, the words scrolled across the screen from left to right. If they were not scrolling, they were dropping from the top of the screen. The remaining words appeared on screen then disappeared.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Rio (Part II)
So, I saw Rio a couple of weeks ago and I fell in love with the movie. The characters were well drawn and the colors that were chosen for he birds were great. The actors and actresses that contributed their voices to the characters did a very good job as well. The characters I enjoyed the most were Nico (Jamie Foxx), Pedro (Will.I.Am), Rafael (George Lopez), and of course Blu (Jesse Eisenberg). Hearing Jamie Foxx and Will.I.Am do the voices of the two birds were hilarious, because they managed to incorporate their singing and rapping voices into their roles. George Lopez is just a funny comedian all around, so his character fit him perfectly. Jesse Eisenberg has a very calm voice for an actor; therefore, his voice was perfect for the spoiled and sheltered Macaw.
Overall, it was a wonderful movie, with a wonderful concept. I would definitely recommend this movie to people, and I would definitely see it again.
Overall, it was a wonderful movie, with a wonderful concept. I would definitely recommend this movie to people, and I would definitely see it again.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Rio
I really want to see this movie. Based on the previews, I think it will be a cute and funny movie.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Hop
Overall, this movie was very good and it also had a lot of important lessons. The number one lesson was do what makes you happy. E.B.'s father kept pushing the fact that he was going to be the next Easter Bunny, but E.B. wanted to be in a band and play the drums; and his father did not understand that. Another lesson was to always be supportive of your children no matter how old they are. Fred (James Marsden) did not have a job, and his father (Gary Cole) constantly hassled him about it. That is not a good way to maintain a close relationship with your children. However, I highly recommend this movie to any and everyone.
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