Fly Away Music Video.

The topic of this post concerns my favorite band: Los Lonely Boys. The reason I am talking about Los Lonely Boys is because they just announced on their youtube channel that they want their fans to make a music video for their new single Fly Away. If they like your music video, you get to win some sort of prize. You could get backstage passes, concert tickets, a signed guitar, etc. The thing I am most excited about is that if they like my video, I get a chance to meet them. This is going to sound very selfish of me, but if you are reading this blog post, do not enter the contest! The less competition the better. I know that is an extremely selfish thing for me to say, but ever since I discovered their music, I have often dreamed of getting on stage and jamming out with them. Their names are Henry, Jojo, and Ringo Garza (guess which one is the drummer). All three of them seem like the coolest people ever and the whole band is the most underrated group ever. What makes them even cooler to me is the fact that all three of them are brothers! Me and my brother can't stand to be in the same room with each other and these guys are playing with each other all over the country. All three of them are so talented and it pains me to see how underrated these guys are. If any of you people reading this blog care at all about good music, look them up on youtube (try looking up "Living my Life", "American Idle", "Señorita", or "Heaven") and enjoy their "Texican Rock n' Roll".

My music video is basically about me trying to balance my personal life, my social life, and my school work. The idea is that I want to "fly away" from my school work and my troubles. Near the end of the music video, I want to capture a shot of a bird flying, which will probably be a challenge.  I plan on filming a scene where I'm practicing guitar and my mom comes, yells at me, and then puts a math textbook in my hand. It's not exactly a stretch to try and act all of the scenes out. When I film at school, I can ask one of my friends to hold the camera to help me film a scene for a few seconds. But when I'm at home alone trying to film, it's a bit of a problem because my mom did not get a tripod for the flip camera she is letting me use. So I had to tape my mom's camera to a music stand and adjust it by making it rest on a bundled cloth. When I was in the Uni High bathroom getting a shot of me washing my face, I had to strap the camera to a heating pipe. Because who really wants to film me while I'm in the bathroom, regardless of what I'm doing. I'm not what you would call an experienced film maker or cameraman. However, I am a good guitarist. So my idea for making my video stick out is to actually play part of the song at the beginning. Also, I am going to play a kick-ass cover of another one of their songs. That's my way of compensating for my mediocre flip-camera skills. Plus I'm gonna have to figure out some way to put all my scenes together using iMovie or something (please recommend me to an easy to use movie editing software below). Here is the song I am making a video for along with a few clips I already filmed: