Assignment # 7

The music video, “Hello World” by Lady Antebellum is a powerful video and truly expresses the songwriter’s emotions towards the song. It reaches out to the viewers in a sensitive way with the life and death situation in the video. The imagery I pictured in my head when listening to this song for the first time was similar to how the video played out. The little girl is a strong character present in the song/video, because she makes the man realise about his life and to always love his family.

I don’t disagree with the production of music videos; I feel it gives the artists to portray their imagery of the song. With that said I think people should listen to songs with only their ears for the first time and then watch the video, so you can create your own images and feelings about the song and then observe the artists. Music videos make it possible to combine that side of art to the music and present it as great production of two arts. It’s interesting to see someone else’s imagery from a song on a screen.

A lot of music videos will incorporate the band performing the song with their instruments. It gives the viewer a chance to see the actual making of the song along with the imagery. Personally, I still prefer to listen to music without the video, just because you can really feel what that particular song means to you.

Assignment # 6

The best part of my spring break would definitely have to be my cruise on the Oasis of the Seas. It is the largest cruise ship in the world with its new sister ship, the Allure of the Seas. I couldn’t believe my eyes when we pulled up to the departure bay, it looked like a few hotels put together on water. The ship could hold over five-thousand passengers as well as around two-thousand staff. These numbers almost add up to the population of Osoyoos in the winter time! It was my first cruise and definitely had a positive impact on me, all the inclusive buffets and restaurants, including fine dining every night in a dining room. There was so much to do and so much to see it was almost too much to take in at once. There were plenty of pools and hot tubs everywhere you turned, paradise at sea. Up to 17 decks it must have been a necessity to have twenty four elevators on the ship.

The ship had three separate stops including: Haiti, Falmouth, Jamaica, and Cozumel, Mexico. Haiti was a magnificent stop, but there wasn’t any civilization where we docked. It was a part of the island that is run by Royal Caribbean and only has guests from the cruise ships. Jamaica was a new stop to the ship so you might have guessed it was a grand arrival to the beautiful land. We climbed a water fall and did a bobsled run while we were there. The final stop was on the eastside of Mexico on an island just off from Playa Del Carmen. We took a ferry to the mainland and did zip lining, river raft, and a river swim through caves.

It all happened so fast I couldn’t believe it was time to leave the ship when we returned to Florida. It was an amazing vacation and one I surely will never forget.