Introduction to the Music Video Project

So today I started my music video project I have officially decided on whether or not I wanted to work with anyone and who I would be working with. I had a hard time since I get nervous working in group especially when I don’t know anyone really. However I managed to find a group. I decided to work with three other girls. Rohanna, Nishayla, and Idline. I knew them since middle school and got lucky when I found out we all had the same class so I was able to successfully see to it that I got a comfortable group to efficiently get the work done.

I choose to actually work in a group rather than by myself because I know me doing it alone would be very overwhelming. I have been struggling lately and falling behind on a lot. So having someone around to keep me motivated and help give me ideas on how to participate daily and move to be productive in my work was an essential part in making sure I progress in this class. US History is a hassle with all the hand written work the teacher wants us to do but I’m trying my best to mange it all and get every blog finished in due time.

The song we choose to use was by Logic - 1-800-273-8255. The reason behind choosing this song was to bring up awareness of a major problem found in many teens today most of them suffer from severe anxiety and depression. These things untreated can cause other issues and lead to bigger problems such as suicidal thoughts and ideas. Some will act on the thoughts and cause themselves pain and harm. Many people call this self harm and these things have cause many people stress, pain and a lot of sorrow. This lead to the creation of a hotline for people to use as a coping mechanism for these harmful thoughts that they have. Logic made a song about it and used the suicide prevention hotline number as the title for the song. An because our topic is speaking on the matter of domestic abuse and suicide for bullying and more we decided this would be the perfect song for our music video project.

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