Sunlight Coming- Making the Video
Hello and welcome once again to my blog where I share the backstories of how I wrote my songs, put together the YouTube videos for those songs, and even fun memories I have from the music classes I took in college. Yesterday's blog was about the backstory of how my song, Sunlight Coming, came to be. Today's blog will be about how the video for the song became a reality. To read yesterday's blog, watch the video of the song, or buy the sheet music for it, click the links in this paragraph.
So most of the videos I had done before my May video mostly involved recording the audio and then the video. But for this song, I had been getting videos for it long before I ever recorded the audio of it! You see, I have this thing that I've self-diagnosed myself with that I like to call a Camera Itch. Anytime I am in an environment that I think would fit perfectly for a song's video, I grab my phone itching to take a video. For this song, it was anytime that I saw dark clouds, rain falling, wind blowing, and even sunlight shining out of clouds. It didn't matter if I was riding in a car or recording at my house; the moment that I saw rain, I would grab my phone!
Speaking of taking videos at house, there was one rainy evening that I got overly excited with my Camera Itch and decided to run out into the rain and record myself singing the song. This was last year, the summer of 2021, and it was long before I recorded the song. That's what makes it so amazing that there were moments in the video that matched up with the audio I later recorded!
When I came back inside, my sister was very upset and scolded me for being reckless. I don't blame her. Because of the rain falling on my eyes, it took me about a whole minute of looking up to the sky before I could sing the first line, Here it is again, a dark cloud o'er the sun. The lightning strike I had in the second verse was real and it really did scare me! That was when I decided to run back inside all sopping wet. But besides that, it was really fun to be 🎶 singing in the rain! 🎶
After getting all these videos and recording the song, I was thinking of uploading it in April because of the phrase, April showers bring May flowers. Unfortunately, as I have mentioned in my blog about my March video, things didn't go as planned. Just like in March, I was busy with school in April. But this time I was SWAMPED and OVERWHELMED with the things I needed to accomplish! After all, I was nearing the end of my second to last semester of school! Thankfully, I was given the opportunity to record my Senior Capstone Project and put it on my personal YouTube channel.
Still, I wondered when I could upload my Sunlight Coming video now. I definitely didn't want to wait until NEXT spring! But then a thought came to me. April showers bring May flowers… But what if it still rains in May? It was perfect! It fit the message of the song's first line, Here it is again, a dark cloud o'er the sun. When I had written that line, I was emphasizing the fact that sad days are bound to come back just like rainy days are. Similar to that line is the line near the end of the song, You can tell your sadness to go away. It's okay to cry, but not to stay that way. I was emphasizing that even though we can't control the weather, we can control our emotions. And it's okay to express ourselves when we're hurt. We just need to recognize when it's time to press forward into sunlight and enjoy the journey of life once again. It's like this phrase I came up with while on my Mission, "Happiness is a choice, not a consequence."
Anyway, I decided to upload it in May when the stress of my spring semester was over. It was pretty easy to put it together since I had already gotten the audio and videos recorded.
I hope you enjoyed this blog. Comment below about a time when you felt down and how you were able to overcome it OR share something that you can't help do that's similar to my Camera Itch. Please consider buying the sheet music to my songs or donating to my website. Every bit of money helps! Please also remember to check out the other links in this blog if you haven't done so already. Thanks for reading all the way to the end!
