POST #10 - WHAT'S IN THE NEWS?

[UPDATE] He's alive and well! He's beaten his cancer into remission! :D

 Today's task was to take a story from the news, be it from social media, the newspaper or from news websites, make a storyboard around it, and choose a piece of music to go with it.

Wendy and I browsed the BBC News front page looking for a story, and then we found a story so heartbreaking, so depressing, so tragic, that we couldn't not use it...

The actor of Robbie Rotten is going to die any day now.

For context, the character became a popular internet trend, or meme, in late 2016, which was all in aid of paying for his cancer treatment. Despite signs of getting through his illness, it was announced about a week ago that his cancer was terminal.

Here's an example of one of the memes created of his character.


 We made some storyboards for how a music video would work; we decided that making it more of a tribute video which also doubles up as a music video.

 The storyboard shows scenes from the original music video, slowed down and with a slower, piano cover of "We Are Number One". It would then close with a tribute to Stefan Karl Stefansson. It'd be darker and more sombre than other things I've worked on for media, like the preliminary tasks.

 The song choice is, as previously mentioned, a slower version of the song that put him on the map.

<storyboard images here>

 There would be transitions between shots through black fades, in and out. There would be an old timey filter over it, giving a more reminiscent and nostalgic feel to it.

 ~ Noah C

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