Research and Planning Blog

    

Hello Cambridge peoples! Today I started making my commercial today, starting with what song I want to choose. First I was considering Time to Pretend by MGMT, because it is a very calming song to me, and I love to put it on in the background when I'm relaxing. However, this song is very explicit and not right for school, so I unfortunately can't put it in the commercial. My next choice was Sound and Vision by David Bowie, because the main guitar riff over and over gives me a very similar feeling. While I liked this song, I wasn't fully sold on it, so I decided to keep looking. Another song I like for this was Thank You (Falletin me Be Mice Elf Agin) by Sly and The Family Stone, but I decided that funk was not the best choice for background music. Where is My Mind by the Pixies was another choice that I liked, but the guitar riff doesn't quite give the same feeling as Time to Pretend or Sound and Vision, so I ruled this out to. Finally, I decided to settle with Sound and Vision by David Bowie, because I couldn't find a song that captures the same energy I wanted that was also safe for school. However, if there were no restrictions on how appropriate it could be, I would choose Time to Pretend by MGMT, because it gives a much stronger, relaxing vibe than Sound and Vision.

    Second, I decided what pictures to put in. I wanted to put in some pictures of me as a little kid, some of me during middle school and the pandemic, and some of me now. The goal was a minimum of one picture from each category. My main reasoning for having each of these categories was to show how much my hair has changed, because up until middle school I had very long hair, and now I have very short hair. When looking through the pictures on my mom's phone, I found a picture of me in a plane at a museum, which I really liked because I still go to that museum and that plane is still there. The second picture I liked was one of me at my Pre-K graduation, mostly because of my hair and how confused I looked at what was going on. (This is the above picture) The next two pictures I liked were from right before and during the Covid-19 pandemic, when my hair was the longest because we couldn't go anywhere to get it cut. The first was at a Renaissance festival where I was in the gallows. I liked this picture because of how clearly you can see how long my hair, which most other pictures from this time do not really show. The next picture was from me posing with the pumpkin I had carved at Halloween. I like this picture because of how weird the pumpkin looks, with its eyes being two very different sizes. Finally, I chose a picture from the beach that my mom took over the summer, when we woke up to see the sunrise on the beach. I like this picture because of how concentrated I seem about collecting seashells and coral.

    While I do like all of these pictures, I'm not quite sure if I'll put all of them in the commercial, and I'm definitely not sure if the pumpkin picture will make it to the final project. Anyways, thank you for reading, and I'm very excited to start making the actual commercial!