Capture The Fall (Watch in HD)

My "Capture the Fall" video challenge. Okay, this was actually so much fun to make. I took my little sister and my puppy down to the park and we had so much fun filming and running around, and it was such a nice, happy, productive use of time. I probably wouldn't have gotten to enjoy such a beautiful day without having this assignment to do, considering I spend my entire life in front of a 13" MacBook Pro, so I guess I owe this one to Mr. Mayo. But really, this was such an enjoyable experience. I filmed it on my iPhone 4, and I'm surprised at how good the quality actually is. Sometimes it's really grainy, but it turned out really well for this. I think it probably had something to do with the awesome lighting.

This was a really fun assignment, and I really enjoyed not only filming it, but picking music and putting it together. It didn't feel like homework to me, it just felt like a hobby; something I wanted to do. I like editing and filming and stuff, that's why I want to get into photography. But I have yet to buy a DSLR, because I spent $250 on really good seats to the Taylor Swift/Ed Sheeran concert. Anyway, I basically just filmed a lot of pretty trees, and different shots of fallen leaves, and my dog and my sister. I'm glad I had to do this. If we did more creative assignments like this, where we just get a theme (like "fall") and we can do whatever we want with it, I'd look forward to those. So, yeah. That's my capture the fall challenge. Enjoy.

Little Things

Recently One Direction released a video for their new song, Little Things. Personally, I don't think One Direction is worth all the hype they get, but I mean, that's what's expected to happen when you take 5 attractive boys that can sing and have british accents and throw them into the music industry. I don't think they're terrible, but I don't like their music and I feel like they get so much credit when they really aren't that great. Anyway so their most recent song, Little Things, is absolutely beautiful, and it's written  by Ed Sheeran. 

Ed Sheeran is honestly one of my favorite musicians ever, he's so incredibly talented. Not just because he can sing, but because of his songs, and how they read like poetry. One of my favorite songs of his, Kiss Me, has some of the sweetest, most beautiful lyrics. "I'm falling for your eyes, but they don't know me yet, and with a feeling I'll forget, I'm in love now." His music resonates so much, when you hear a song of his all you can think of is the sheer brilliance it takes to write something as magical as some of the songs he's released. They're not all amazing, obviously, but unlike a lot of musicians that have a few great songs on an album and the rest mediocre; songs that fill space on an album but aren't that amazing, Ed Sheeran's album "+" is just one beautiful song after another. You can tell how hard he worked and how much the album means to him because all the lyrics are so personal, and so real.

The first time I heard Little Things I knew it didn't sound like regular One Direction pop singles and I recognized the intricate and personal lyrics, I even recognized his style of songwriting. That sounds weird, but his songs are so distinct that it's pretty easy to pick out an Ed Sheeran song. It kind of bothers me that One Direction's like hey, this is our new song, isn't it beautiful? And they're not telling the complete truth and being straight up like we didn't write this. One Direction's fans are obviously just gonna eat it up, because anything they put out is gold to them. I feel like people are gonna assume they wrote it and that's gonna kill me, because Ed Sheeran should get the credit he deserves for writing such a beautiful song.