Did Video Kill the Radio Star?

Could video kill the radio star? 

With the amount of things the average person has to do in a day how could it?

 The idea of the music video is great, waking up for school in my teens I immediately turned to MTV channel 55, and got ready for school jamming out to the hits from all of my favorite rap, hip hop and R&B artists. The videos that I was watching was the perfect way to start everyday and was truly when I first started caring about the music industry. Some videos have a sense of inappropriateness but most of the videos came with fun and exciting interpretations of the music I was listening to. It seems that if anything the videos have been helping the radio star making songs come to life and bringing creative dances and sex appeal to the forefront. The only problem is you have to seek out videos unlike radio which comes to you. 

 In reality how often can you sit in front of a computer or television searching for the hottest new videos? For me never, the only music videos I see are the most popular ones that my friends show me or the videos that people tag on Facebook. Not because I don't like videos but I don't have time to search for them and MTV doesn't even play music videos the way that they used to. The "Music Television" channel is filled full of so called "reality shows" and competitions between drunken goons and sex obsessed teenagers. 

Radio has now and will be a huge way to obtain music. Not only do people listen to the radio everyday at work and in there cars but now even cell phones have applications that stream radio stations. There are applications that stream music videos such as VEVO but watching a video while doing things is much more difficult than just listening and multitasking. 

photo © _dorothy_

I am Amazed

When first joining the music video class my partner and I had no idea what song we wanted to use for our video. My partner is a beautiful singer who has produced many of her own songs but we know a plethora of Shepherdstown artists who have songs that we would have loved to feature. After much thought we made the decision to use a song titled, "I am Amazed" by one of our "Towny" friends. When dividing the song we plan on using videos of the artist during guitar solos and videos of children playing when he is singing the chorus. The children is what we had envisioned for the song from the time we started. Hopefully we will do the song and the artist justice with our portrayal of his lyrics.

KIDZ BIZ

After much thought about my life and what interests me it didn't take long for me to realize that my passion lies with my job at The Little Gym of Frederick.  I'm lucky enough to play all day with princesses and superheroes in a land they like to think of as "Gymdalasia". I get the enjoyment of hearing that when my students go home rather than playing house they play "Little Gym" and pretend to be "Miss. Danielle" while teaching their parents and siblings gymnastics skills. This is why when assigned to make a twenty five page website on a topic of my choice, I knew my first step was to talk to my boss. 

After talking the new owner of my company we decided to make the webpage focused on Kidz Biz, the Frederick locations branch of the International Franchise, The Little Gym. This will include descriptions of what our facility offers as well as information about the new location that we will be moving to. The site will also give the parents of the children we teach information about the Kidz Biz family. Starting with information about our new owner, our director, and each of the teachers in our staff. We will be taking pictures to show our facilities as well as the equipment that we use to grow skills and confidence in the children we teach.