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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wASs3pnfaGo This Piece I used an old project from COM 241.  The video describe the paranoia that people have of the concept of death.  This project definitely made me think about what I could do with this short movie of mine.  I soon thought that it could work perfectly as a horror short film.  This made the project some what easier because the footage worked so well as horror clips. So what I did was I completely made the footage black and white which gave the film a more ominous feeling.  I did not want to do much editing on the video itself, but focused more on the sound effects.  I think that the sound is the biggest part of horror films.  The fact that sound has a big part in what we fear is why I was focusing on it more. This project was one of the more enjoyable projects because we were able to create something from scratch and turn it into something more than what it started out as.  It also gave people the power to completely make somethin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESW1cpQ31og For my performance art Steph, Kamryn and I went around handing out balloons to random people on campus.  I found this to be a lot of fun because even though many of the people were confused it brought a smile to their face.  It was cool to see that such a small gesture like just handing someone a ballon can bring them a little bit of happiness to their day.  See the way people looked at us just walking around campus with balloons was also pretty entertaining. Coming up with an idea for to do was probably one of the hardest part of the assignment.  Wr originally had a different idea and tried it out but it was not successful.  We then came up with the balloon idea which from the reactions we got from people they seemed to enjoy the small gesture of receiving a balloon. I enjoyed doing this project because it brought me out of my comfort zone by having to go up to people I did not know and have to interact with them.  I feel like this was

Stevie Nicks is an American singer song writer who got here start in the 1970's.  She then joined the band Fleetwood Mac and that band is one of the most well know rock and roll bands of the 70's and 80's.  Stevie Nicks in her solo career wrote the song Edge of Seventeen  and the song is a written for her grieving over her uncle and helped the people of that time grieve or the murder of John Lennon.  I chose this song because this is a women helping basically the entire world have a way mourn over the loss of an icon and this just shows her power over music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn8-4tjPxD8 Led Zeppelin although is not considered a hardcore music. They were the first band to start the metal to hard rock era which eventually paved the way for hardcore rock groups around in the late 20th century and now the 21st century.  The song Black Dog which when it starts of it goes write into the high pitch singing of lead singer Robert Plant.   This is why I feel this