Friends Not Dancing

  I began this term with the hope of doing ten separate interviews and making music videos from all of those people. In the end I only ended up doing that 3 times partly because of covid but also partly because of the experience that I had in doing this. I loved doing it and interacting with my friends and connecting with them but it felt somewhat disingenuous at one point because the music started to feel like I was filling in the blanks for what they weren't saying. I do not think I  overstepped any boundaries and I told them going in that what they tell me is up for interpretation but it began to feel invasive and honestly just difficult. I love to songwrite but the songs I was creating for these videos while I felt like they were passable were not songs that I would ever perform or show anyone. I would make them in like an hour and they were sweet and fun but they did not really reflect my ability as a songwriter. I think overall the effect of the project is very wholesome espe

  This week was a lot about self reflection but in the sense of literal reflections and how they are captured on film. I took this interpretation as self reflection as in reflecting on past behavior. So the song that I wrote for this week was all about examining the past versions of myself and how I feel like those reflections are dead. As much as they literally are because I do not look the same and arguably everytime your reflection is not actively being reflected it dies, it is metaphorically dead because I feel like I have changed so much in the past two years. I used videos of myself from a different time in my life when I felt like I was not being authentic and was too concerned about my own reflection. That is probably why I have so many videos of myself from that time because I needed to examine the way that I looked all the time. So the video that I have created feels a bit haunting to me because I feel so disconnected from that person it does almost feel like that person is d