Hey y’all! Welcome back to my blog! This is going to be a complicated and longish post, but it will have a lot of information in it…please bear with me! 

Ok, so, we came to the end of our latest project about a week ago, but I’m just writing the post right now. Anyhow, our latest project was Destination Imagination (DI for short). DI is basically an international competition where teams from around the world compete against each other. 

In DI, there was four teams. The scientific team, the fine arts team, the technical team, and the engineering team. We did a Google Form and we said which one we wanted to be on. I said and I wanted to be on the fine arts team, and that’s where I ended up. 

Below is what my team had to do:

In DI, you get a challenge. Your job is to come up with a solution. As you could see above, our DI challenge was to create a music video based on a piece of literature. Our team chose Alice in Wonderland as our book. 

Below are the things that had to be included in our music video solution:

• We had to research music videos and create our own music video. A music video was a video that was created by our team. The music/beat and lyrics
• also had to be created by our team and they had to help retell our story 
• The story that we chose had to be retold through a music video. It can be part or all of the piece of literature that we chose.
• We also had to design and create a costume. For this challenge, a costume was a set of clothes, hairstyle, and/or makeup that helps to portrait a single character. We chose Alice to design and create a costume for.
• We had to choose 3 production techniques that were to enhance our video. We chose to do choreography, close up, and long shots.
• And finally, we had to present 2 team choice elements. A team choice element shows off your teams interests, skills, areas of strength, and talents. Our two elements was Sara (the March Hare) drawing the map, showing off her drawing skills. Our second one was Julia (Alice) tripping into the splits, showing how good she is at gymnastics.

However, due to COVID-19, we had to compromise and do everything online, whereas before, you would go somewhere and you would preform on stage. But this year, we all had to make videos. 

In DI, there are two parts. One part, which I’ve been talking about, is solving the challenge. The other part is the Instant Challenges. The Instant Challenges are really hush hush so I can’t say anything about it, except that we did one. I wish I could say more, but I can’t. 

There was also a bonus video that we did. Since this year wasn’t in person, the appraisers weren’t able to ask us question about our solution. Because of this, we had to make a short Q&A video answering any questions we think they might have had. Here’s ours:

Anyhoo, thank you for reading! This project has definitely taught me the understanding of team work. It also has given me a lot more appreciation for people who make movies and music videos. Also, thank you to my amazing teammates who made our whole challenge super cool! If you guys want to comment what book or piece of literature you would have picked, please feel free to do so! 

Best wishes,

-Dana

P.S. Here’s our final music video!

 

P.P.S. We had to take a picture to send into the main office of DI with all of our team mates in it. We had to create a sign and ours turned out pretty snazzy if I do say so myself. Here’s ours!