First off, there's a young lady that's coming to Fresno for those of you that are interested, she's the young lady that was on America's Got Talent and lost to someone that should've lost to her in the first place. Now I have personally heard this young lady on an episode of the show, and quite honestly there's no physical way for that voice to come from that young lady. And from her recent interview with the Fresno Bee via phone (
http://www.fresnobee.com/2012/02/23/2733635/little-jackie-evancho-brings-her.html) "Jackie Evancho, 11, brings her big opera voice to Saroyan Theatre for a Feb. 26 performance with Fresno Grand Opera." She's going to be bringing that amazing voice here to Fresno this coming Sunday. Believe me if I could, I would personally love to see and hear this young lady in person, however I don't have that option at the current time (due to living situation and also monitary as well). However, this is one girl that most performers should actually look up to considering how this girl loves to keep everything down to Earth in a major way, which will help her out in the long run with so many different things that will come up later in life.
Now on another note that also is dealing with music, I was talking with a friend of mine about this yesterday evening, and it deals with an idea that I have for a video that I would love to make and post up to YouTube where I know for a fact that it would seriously go viral in no time at all. However there are four songs in the video that I planned on having in there (two of which I believe that I would have to get permission for either way), and each of them would be used at different points in the video its self. Now instead of having to retype up the entire idea, I figured that I would copy and paste down the one that I e-mailed to my boss concerning the idea (for which I still haven't heard from about it). Now there is a minor problem that you will read about in the message, and I really don't know how I'm going to get by it at all, maybe some of you readers out there have an idea, and if that's the case, then please let me know.
Here's the email that I sent:
"Dear Carol;
I know that you wanted me to write this up and send it to you, only thing is, I've been a bit bogged down, but now have the chance to actually get it all written down.
The idea that I had for the video (and what I would actually be doing during the actual season too), and something that I would like to do for work as well. I was actually planning on becoming a living statue of Liberty, namely getting the make up head piece, shirt, and gloves that would help in making me become a living statue. For which I would actually be using it during the normal season, and then after for the video that I'm about to tell you about here.
The video its self is something that I actually came up with both during the video that I had seen of the one sign dancer that had won that contest and from watching a show called "A Day at the Ritz". Believe me I've thought everything through, however today I did discover that part of the video idea that I happen to have, it got rocked in a way that I'm not happy about in the least.
Now in the video, it would start off in the office with the other dancers coming in saying that they can't compete with the competitions dancer out there, and that you need to call him in (him being me). So you get onto the phone and call, the scene switches to that of the inside of a donut shop where the camera is pointing at a laptop in front of me with a smart cell phone next to it (please note that till about mid way through the video, my face will not be seen at all, it'll all be from the mid neck down only). Your call comes in, and I pick it up, putting the phone in front of my face to block it from the camera. You tell me that I need to come in because the other dancers can't handle the other dancer that's out there; from there I tell you that I'm on my way and hang up.
The scene changes to just out side the center in the parking on, with the camera focused on the corner lights in the distance (it'll be zoomed in at that point), and a car starts to come down the street (the camera will be following the car, and zooming out slowly as it happens to come in), once it arrives it parks and the camera switches to the bottom of the car door as it opens watching as a foot steps out of the car. The shot then switches again to that of the door way leading into the center here, and all that's seen is a chest shot of me as I go into the place.
From there, we do a time lapse and switch to a POV shot of me coming out of the back changing area all made up, the POV catches the looks on all of your faces as I come out of the place, I take my arrow sign, and head out the door.
Now it's at this point, that a screen shot of my MP3 player will be on there featuring the first song that I'm going to be using, of the four (4) songs that I'm going to be using in the video. The song that gets shown is Michael Jackson's "Bad" song, which I will be dancing to.
Now it was at this point, that I was going to have the scene going down the inside of the center, but I got killed at that since it seems that pro companies can be able to shot in this place, but not anyone that happens to be shooting a private film (which actually pisses me off big time). So I'm now at a bit of a loss for how to shot this scene here in the first place, I guess I'll eventually figure it out.
At the end of the song, I was going to have a breaking news story appear in the video, with ABC 30 doing it (at least I hope that I can since I don't know at this point if I'll get the chance at all). The breaking news story will lead into the next scene where it shows part of my head coming out among a crowd of people that heard that I was there in the first place and are not only cheering me on, but also snapping photos and video recording me as well. When I head out onto the island (which will be filmed as well), the scene will then switch to that of me standing out in the center (the camera will be going back and forth once the music starts). The next song that would be getting played at this point would be "Boom Boom Pow" By the Black Eyed Peas. (I've already got this whole shoot in my head as to how it's going to be done in the first place.) Now the last two songs that would be getting played after this are "Can't Touch This" By MC Hammer, and "Edge of Glory" by Lady Gaga, with a fire works blast going off at the end of the last song.
Now there will be people out there on the grass section actually watch the performance, and they will be shot and placed into the video as well (at least when I can get people that would like to take part in the video in the first place). After the singing and dancing is finished, it then cuts to the second to last shot of the video, which will show a line of people going out the door (both of them) and bending around the building waiting to get in. After that it fads out, but then fads back in showing the competition with no one there, with the guy just working a lonely desk. Then the video fades out for good at that point.
Now the places that I was planning on asking (besides Manchester whom I might just get a lawyer and fight on the whole private can't film in the center deal, sorry I just hate it when the big guys can film here, but the little guys can't, so that won't be on you, I've got to deal with that all my own), besides ABC 30 (whom once I came back to work and started becoming a living statue, I was going to be emailing them about something that they should check out, but that will only be after I come back to work), would be Alice 96.7 for the listeners out there in the city who would like to take part in the video. So I figured that when the day comes that the out door filming actually starts, you guys, Alice 96.7, and ABC 30 Action News would all have tents set up out there, giving away different things for everyone to have (food, refreshments, those foam crown things, etc. (other things that Alice and ABC might have)), which they could be waving when the camera comes around to film them.
Personally I really have no idea what you happen to think about all of this, but I'm hoping that you happen to like it, either way it's something that is costing only me and no one else. Plus it would beat the socks off that other guy's video that we had both seen. Also, sorry that this is so long right now. I just seriously hope that I can be able to get the one job that I really happen to love back, that way I can entertain everyone and bring them all in to the place.
Anyway, let me know what you think of it all ok."
Now as you can see the part that I'm having trouble with happen to be going down the inside of Manchester Center, which honestly I believe would've been great, but as I pointed out someone that's doing something private can't do any kind of filming in there, but someone that happens to be with a major company can do it with out any kind of problem at all. To top it all off, I got stone walled by the General Manager of the Center too which didn't help things in the least at all, despite how many times he kept telling me it was private property, I figured that he would've told me that I had to talk to the owner, but no I could only talk to him, and he kept telling me no, period.
However this is the video that I would love to be able to film, however at the current time I don't have the funds or the equipment to be able to do it at all. I was hoping to be working this season, but I didn't make it and got locked out from it. Which for me means that I'll have to try again next season. Now I know that I don't have any permission to use the Liberty Tax icon or anything else, but I also know, that if I was planning on making any money off of it at all, then I would have the problem right there with trying to get permission, however if I'm not making any money off the video (for which I'm not since I'm fully planning on uploading it all up to YouTube), then there's no problem, and personally I had come up with everything that would be done and seen in the video.
Well let me know what all of you readers think of the video idea that I happen to have, also the two songs that I believe that I would have to get permission to use in my video despite not making any money off of it at all, is "Boom Boom Pow" by the Black Eyed Peas, and "Edge of Glory" By Lady Gaga. I believe that the other two songs are too old for it, but I might be wrong on that, so if I happen to be, please let me know.
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Felix Sanchez
Sign Dancer, Liberty Tax Fresno, CA
Alhambra High School
Class of '97
Twitter: @timetracker2643
