The document discusses concepts for three potential music videos. The first would be for the Ed Sheeran song "Thinking Out Loud" and would involve a slow-tempo lip sync performance in a recording studio with landscape shots. The second would be a black-and-white, narrative music video for Drake's "Brand New" about a failing relationship. The third would be a colorful, comedic, and fast-paced lip sync performance for N-Dubz's "Secrets" with clips relating to the meaningless lyrics.
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Empowering the Data Analytics Ecosystem: A Laser Focus on Value
The data analytics ecosystem thrives when every component functions at its peak, unlocking the true potential of data. Here's a laser focus on key areas for an empowered ecosystem:
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Techniques to optimize the pagerank algorithm usually fall in two categories. One is to try reducing the work per iteration, and the other is to try reducing the number of iterations. These goals are often at odds with one another. Skipping computation on vertices which have already converged has the potential to save iteration time. Skipping in-identical vertices, with the same in-links, helps reduce duplicate computations and thus could help reduce iteration time. Road networks often have chains which can be short-circuited before pagerank computation to improve performance. Final ranks of chain nodes can be easily calculated. This could reduce both the iteration time, and the number of iterations. If a graph has no dangling nodes, pagerank of each strongly connected component can be computed in topological order. This could help reduce the iteration time, no. of iterations, and also enable multi-iteration concurrency in pagerank computation. The combination of all of the above methods is the STICD algorithm. [sticd] For dynamic graphs, unchanged components whose ranks are unaffected can be skipped altogether.
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Title: Chatty Kathy: Enhancing Physical Activity Among Older Adults
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2. The main reason we chose this song is because Ed Sheeran is
an artist whose voice would resonate well with our group. His
voice is not too abstract therefore would go well with any of
our lip-syncing.
The song itself would be rather simple to film lip syncing, as it
has a slow beat and tempo.
Regarding what we would put in the video, it would definitely
be performance based mixed with some forms of landscape
shots. Something to present the sadness and isolation present
in the song.
The performance aspect would be shot in the recording
studio (similar to the prelim task) with the main singer lip-syncing
while playing the guitar.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzD12qo1knM
ED SHEERAN – THINKING OUT LOUD
3. We chose this music video because it has insightful lyrics and an
artistic representation could be constructed from it.
It is also a lesser-known song from Drake (it was released as part
of his second ever mixtape in 2007) and a very different style to
the rest of his work, so we could definitely do our own
interpretation without a lot of influence from Drake himself.
Our music video would most likely entail slow cuts and editing to
make it relate to the beat of the song. It would definitely be a
performance based video and be black and white to represent
the mellow aspect of the song.
The entire concept of the video would also be of sadness and
lost love, something that could be represented easily through
vivid imagery and shots. An example of this is a shot of an empty
room, or a picture frame without an photo. It would also be
narrative based, telling the story of the a failing relationship.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggHJwJ-KpF0
DRAKE - BRAND NEW
4. We chose this song because it is one of n dubz less serious songs.
This allows to get away from his ‘gangsta’ image which would
be quite hard to replicate, thus making this song easier to do.
It is also a different genre to the other two songs, giving us some
variety when it comes down to actually choosing a song to do.
Our music video for this would also be very different to the
previous two, definitely a mixture between performance and
narrative.
It would also me more upbeat, fast paced and without a doubt
in colour due to the nature of the song.
Some of our suggestions for this music video are somewhat
influenced by ndubz earlier songs in the album, as it would be a
montage of comedy based clips mixed with a performance
aspect. The performance aspect would obviously involve our
main singer rapping, so marks for lip-syncing could easily be
gained if we did it right.
There would be no over-arching narrative for the video, simply
just unrelated clips that relate to the lyrics as the song itself is
generally meaningless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhri4pYKwCU
N DUBZ- SECRETS
