For my senior capstone project I will be making a cosplay music video. This is something that I feel will cover specific areas of my education that I have not experienced in my academic learning. These skills are also ones that I believe will make myself more marketable to possible future employers.
Cosplay music videos are not uncommon on the internet. With the wide growth in popularity and acceptance of cosplay, and the increasing number of conventions, almost every con goer takes photos or film of cosplayers. Any photographer who has a video camera can film cosplayers and add music to make it into a cosplay music video. But few have gone so far as to customize the music added to the video.
There are few names that come to mind when one thinks of a music parody artist. Weird Al Yankovich, Instalok, and those at College Humor are some that come to my mind. But overall there are very few who chose to take on the challenge of writing lyrics to music. This is one of the challenges I will be facing during my project and one of the defining differences between my cosplay music video and others on the internet.
For this project I will be facing many challenges that require me to learn a variety of new skills. For instance, I will not only be writing my own lyrics, to the song 'Domino' by Jessica J., but I will also be performing the vocals. Since I am no Katy Perry I will have to learn how to edit audio and work with auto-tune to improve the vocals. I will also be working with a video camera for the first time and using advance editing software.
In order to produce this video I will need to learn to direct a film in the way that will make sense to my audience, cosplayers between the ages of 13-30. The majority of my filming will take place at Japanese and Comic cultural conventions. This allows me to socially and culturally connect with a wide variety of cosplayers.
I have been looking forward to creating a cosplay music video for some time. I am very excited to get started with this project and learning the new experiences that it comes with.
Elder Scrolls: Skyrim is one of my favorite games. The graphics
were top notch for its time, the nonlinear game play makes for a personalized
story, and each NPC within the game has a unique back story that opens up a
hidden world within the game that most players would over look just playing the
main quest.
Skyrim was also the most graphically realistic game of its time.
The detail that went into the textures of the most overlooked objects, like
grains in the wood stumps, enhanced the reality of the world, almost making it
feel like the player truly stepped back in time into a world where dragons roam
free.
For this blog series I will explore and explain many topics
relating to The Elder Scrolls series, more specifically Skyrim. I will research
Norse mythology and culture and how it is accurately depicted in the game.
I
will describe how the newest technology can improve game play while increasing
the in game experience with the player. I will also explain how this game has
affected our culture.
Throughout this series I will also explore into the expanded
universe of Elder Scrolls into an online MMO game. I will see how the
governmental issues within Skyrim mirror that of past governments. And I will
discuss controversy within the world of Elder Scrolls both internally created
and externally made though mods.
Skyrim is the most unique game of all the Elder Scrolls series. It
is the first to allow a player to cut complete ties from the main story quest
and venture off on their own personally designed adventure. Each NPC within the
game feels like a real person and has a story to be told that increases the
complexity and emotional connection to the game, if the player chooses to
listen.
