Monthly Archives: September 2014

Almost Finished With Our First Video!

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On September 19, I searched for good songs that me and Teresa are going to cover next.
This is the link to the document with the song ideas —> https://docs.google.com/a/kas.kh.edu.tw/document/d/1ly7LLb-rhu0tvAEIDsSjyuVZG4if7O2x-6svuu1-_9s/view. I tried using songs that were more in my range, like Bad Day by Daniel Powter or Mean by Taylor Swift. We are going to vote on the songs sometime next week at school.

On September 21, I went to Teresa’s house again. I stayed there from 3:00 to 5:15. We practiced songs for about an hour, then we started filming the final one. But we always sung super quietly, you could barely hear us singing, just the music. I suggested that we turn the music down more, but Teresa said that the music has nothing to do with it. So then I suggested that we should just sing without music and add the music later so that we could control the volume without changing the whole video’s volume, but Teresa said she needed the music to sing. So we ended up filming over 20 videos, and I’m not even exaggerating. Sometimes we sung the full song, sometimes we sung some of it to see how loud we were. The last one we filmed was pretty good, but my voice sounded so different. I don’t think there’s really anything I can do about it though. It doesn’t sound that bad actually, so we decided to use that clip. Here is the video link for our COVER!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpbGVMBfs4w

On September 26, I worked on this blog post. I think the next time we film the video it should be at my house not Teresa’s, because even though Teresa’s house is way bigger than mine, there still isn’t a lot of places to film it.

This is the link to our Facebook page—> https://www.facebook.com/TheAwesomeWhiteShadows. The name of our band it called White Shadows, I had originally wanted it to be Black Sunrise, but Teresa thought White Shadows was better.

Starting Our Project

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I am doing my Valient Ventures project with Teresa Yu. We are going to be singing songs, and putting them on Youtube and Facebook. On the first week, I went to the Conference room to practice singing Love Story, which is the first song we are going to sing. At first it felt weird, even though I was alone, probably because it was so silent and empty there. But after a while, I started singing really well, without any nervousness in it.
https://docs.google.com/a/kas.kh.edu.tw/document/d/1OpTySZCtlEUUqu9QZ47xt0XZsAOhrTFufoP-O81Y9Lc/edit
^Above is the link to the lyrics for Love Story, and the parts we have.

On Monday, there wasn’t any school because of the Moon Festival, so I went to Teresa’s house to practice with her. We practiced for about an hour. When I was about to go, we did a quick video of us singing (not the one we’re going to post on Youtube), but the music was way too loud, and you could barely hear us. When we heard each other singing in real life, not the video, it sounded way louder than the music. I think it was because the microphone in the computer was right next to the speaker or something.

On the second week of doing my Valient Ventures, I practiced singing by myself downstairs on a bench between the courtyards, because the Conference Room was locked. It wasn’t that bad outside, there wasn’t any sun where I was sitting, and there was a nice breeze blowing around. But it was still kind of weird, especially with people walking by every 5 minutes. I feel like they think I’m skipping class or something.

Breaking News! Murder of a Soc!

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Soc “Robert” Bob Sheldon was stabbed in the back last week in the park by a greaser, Johnny Cade, at 2:30 in the morning. Cade was charged for manslaughter. Cade and his friend Ponyboy Curtis, were jumped by Sheldon, Randy Adderson, and some other Socs, because they thought they were picking up their girls. They almost drowned Ponyboy in a fountain, Johnny, completely terrified, stabbed Bob in the back with his switchblade, killing him. The other Socs fled from the scene soon after. Randy claims that it was entirely their fault, and not Johnny’s, but still charged Johnny for manslaughter. Sherri “Cherry” Valance, Bob’s girlfriend, says that Bob was drunk at the time, and he and the boys were looking for a fight when they took her home. Johnny died a hero when he and Ponyboy ran into the flaming church that they had took refuge in to hide from the cops, and saved five kids inside.
Johnny Cade, 16, and Ponyboy Curtis, 14, are both members of the Greasers gang. They get into less trouble compared to the other members. Both were described to be good people, especially compared to the rest of the gang. Bob Sheldon was described by some to be a typical Soc, but Cherry Valance and Randy Adderson say otherwise. “He just wanted for someone to say ‘No’ to him. To have somebody lay down the law, set the limits, to give him something solid to stand on. But his parents spoiled him rotten,” Adderson says. Cherry says, “He wasn’t just any boy. He had something that made people follow him, something that marked him different, maybe a little better, than the crowd.”
After Bob’s death, the people who knew him learned more about life and people. Not all Socs are what people think. Not all greasers are what people think. Life is precious only because it ends.