Light of Christmas music video

Light of Christmas by Owl City featuring Tobymac

Elf Yourself #1

Logan Institute Video Contest 2014: You're Not Alone

The Logan LDS Institute was having a video contest.  The theme was why I go to Institute.  Here's my entry (:

100 years Five For Fighting Fan Made Music Video

Here is yet another music video I have made with my wonderful, awesome, talented nieces and nephews.  The song is called 100 Years and it's by Five For Fighting.  It's one of my favorite songs.  I think this video is one of the best yet! Please enjoy! (:

Aggie Marching band mulimedia

Here are some videos of the  2014 Utah State Aggie Marching Band.  You Probably won't be able to see me  unless you look really closely at the person who's just a little out of step haha just kidding.  But enjoy!

You may need to copy and paste the links again

Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, and Gladiator show  (This was our first performance of the season)

http://youtu.be/YQPh8rpEwu4

 Daft Punk show  ( This one is longer, but it's really cool)

http://youtu.be/SYNFy2Ofa7w

Courage to Stand Music Video

Well my creative nieces and nephews are living with us so be prepared for a lot of music videos (:
The first one we created is from a song called Courage to Stand.  It was The EFY(Especially For Youth) 2010 theme song.  It's more of a religious one, but it's still very artsy and cute!  Hope you enjoy it! We had a lot of fun making it!

Also here's your goofy picture of the day

Skydawg Productions Intro

So you know for TV shows and Production companies how they have an opener before the actual show starts.  I made myself one for all the videos I make it's really short  like 6 seconds.  Hope you like it1







Here's an opener that I really like by BYU TV and their comedic Studio C

http://youtu.be/MgDb5UPH5tA



Maybe I can make an opener like that someday (:

Song of the Week: Owl City - You're Not Alone (Ft. Britt Nicole)

So for people who know me well know that I love this music project called Owl City.  He recently came out with two knew singles and they're both great! This one i'm featuring for  song of the week is called You're Not Alone.  It's a Christian song, and it has a great message.  It's by Owl City featuring Britt Nicole

Song of the Week. Home Dierks Bentley

I'm going to start a new thing on my blog called song of the week.  I've always had a love for music and I love sharing what songs i'm listening to lately.  This week is a song called Home by Dierks Bentley.  Although i''m not a huge fan of country, this song has been one of my favorites for a while.  I hope you enjoy  it as I did.

And it's another Aggie

Saturday September 13th USU had another game and I finally got some videos to share! Thanks to My sister Jess and a friend from band that posted another one on Facebook.

This game we had to learn a whole new show within the three days we had to practice.  It really wasn't that hard because we didn't march as much as we did in our show on the 6th.  Especially me being the "anchor point" for the alto saxes where I pretty much didn't move the entire show.  

Our show this game consisted of three songs.  Thift Shop by Macklemore, Can't Hold Us by Macklemore, and Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepson

It was funny, when we rehearsed Thift Shop my band director said maybe we could go to the DI and get the color guard some fur coats to dance in.  I work at DI so I liked that.

I'll put the links to the songs below if you don't know them.
Thift Shop-  (This link isn't the original song because the actual song isn't the cleanest, so instead i'll link you to a guy who plays this song on the trombone, alto and tenor sax. It's really awesome1 He's really good!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUOwXemXXw8

Can't Hold Us-
P.S. This song has been stuck in my head all weekend!
Once again the original of this song swears in it quite a bit so i'll link you to the same same saxophone guy on the Tenor saxophone.But the original official music video for this song is cool casue it's actually got a marching band in it!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHgC8gfPEUE

Call Me Maybe-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRx0KNqKqnA


Here's our actual show!

It's on my Facebook, so if you need a Facebook login to see it I apologize, but I tried to make it public.
https://www.facebook.com/ellieharris1995

I'll probably post more video clips, but that's it for now.  I'll keep you posted!

                                                          Playing from the stands

VSCO

I share a lot of my photography on an app called VSCO.  Click on the diamond above

Aggie Marching Band

For those of you that don't know, I am In the Aggie Marching Band at Utah State University.  I am playing my alto saxophone in it rather than a tenor sax.  I thought it'd be easier to have the smaller horn for my first year of marching.

If you don't know the difference between an alto and a tenor saxophone, the alto is the smaller on on the left which is the one I currently play for marching band.  The tenor on the right is what I Played for most of my senior year of high school.  It was awesome! I miss my tenor, but alto is great too!

Here's a picture of us out on the halftime show during the first official  game of the season againist Idaho State Saturday September 6, 2014.  Which we won by the way! 40-20!(: 

I know you can't see me specifically in the picture, but my parents couldn't find me in there.  Which I take a a good thing because that means I wasn't too out of the formation!(:  This was our first show of the season.  In Pre-game we did Monster by Skillet, the USU fight song, National Anthem, and a student section favorite, The Newest Scotsman.

For the halftime show we did 3 sets of songs.  A Harry Potter mix, the Game of Thorns theme,  Gladiator theme, and The Fox by Ylvis.  We've been practicing and memorizing those since August 18th .  This upcoming week we  for the September 13th game we have to learn a whole new halftime show(3 songs) in the 3 days of rehearsal we have this week.  So this will be fun!

Over all It was a great time!  I really enjoyed it!  I think my favorite parts was playing I'm shipping off to Boston when we were on the side and the bagpipers were on the field during the 3rd quarter break.  I also liked dancing around with my crazy band mates, and Playing the Newest Scotsman.  Guys, I did it.  I am an Aggie.  I am a marching Aggie.

P.S.  If you're curious on the songs I mentioned above look at my post below this one.  (:

Aggie Marching Band songs

Like I said in the post above, I would post  some of the songs that we played.  I tried to find all of them in marching band style rather than the actual song by the actual artist.

UPDATE.  I KNOW THE LINKS DON'T WORK WHEN YOU PRESS ON THEM, BUT IF YOU COPY AN D PASTE THEM INTO THE SEARCH BAR IT SHOULD WORK.

Here we go:

--- Pre- game---

Monster originally by Skillet .  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooycJjkIvy8

Utah State University Fight song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l82FN04PVoM

Then the National Anthum, but you all know what that sounds like, or at least should.

Newset Scotsman- This one is probably everybody's favorite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjcSiJ_CbjI

---Halftime Show---

HarryPotter USU 2014 Arrangement 

We did a Harry Potter Arangment. I apologize I can't find our version of it on YouTube, but I'll tell you most of it was the Nimbus 2000 theme. It was awesome! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCfY2QGjlCs

Game of Thorns- theme song from the show Game of Thorns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4faQXqMjgUU

Gladiator-  From the Pixar motion picture Gladiator

I can't find this one on YouTube, sorry!

The Fox- Ylvis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92M0dWvC8Hk
The Fox is probably the most well known song we played this show.  If you haven't heard the original by Ylvis here's the link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jofNR_WkoCE

Also after 3rd quater we played Shipping oof to Boston.  Just replace the beggining of this with bagpipes and that's what we sounded like.  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YOjbSWFhdg

We played a lot more snips from songs from the stands, but that would take forever to list so i'll just stick with the show music.  

Well, i'll keep you all posted on how future events go.

Summer 2014

It's been a pretty busy summer this year! Great, but busy.  Here's what I've been up to staring with high school graduation.

                                                               Graduated from Logan High School May 29, 2014.  Here I am holding my High School Diploma on Utah State University campus. Go Aggies!

                                                           Deonna and me
                                                             

                                                                Bethany and me

                                                           Jennifer and me.  I'm holding a tenor saxophone which I played for the graduation orchestra.  This fall I will be playing my alto saxophone in the USU marching band.

I took this shot in Salt Lake City and thought it turned out really cool~

Course my favorite part of summer is getting snow cones

                                                             
                                               

Learning the guitar. Sort of. And taking cool pictures of it. You know, same difference.

Summer Fest on Center Street.  I got a funnel cake  to share. And those are my friends being dorks in the backround, but that's why I love them

                                                          Every year at Summer Fest there's these hammocks and I want to buy one.  Every year.

                                                              Now I'm the one being a dork

                                                              Lagoon Amusement Park with the best

                                                                    Tatiana and I took selfies on about every ride there was. Yes, even the ones that went upside down

                                                                   View from the sky ride

                                                              Dip 'n dots.  They're like little balls of icecream and they're amazing

Jennifer and I study a lot together for our Vet-Tech class at the local technical college. We get distracted sometimes. But I mean really....who doesn't?

 Hung out a lot with my friend Richard before he left for bootcamp for the Marines on June 9th. We don't like to face the camera.  the view is too spectacular.

It's all fun and games until someone gets pushed off a cliff. 

 I have fun with photo-shop.  I call this one Zombie-Elli

I started video channel with my friend, Deonna.  We've made 1 video so far.Hopefully more to come.  But there you have it Zazzle Zweltch Productions.  Pronunciation (Zazz- Zell Zwell- ch)

                                                          We go to a lot of field trips in our vet tech class.

                                                           William, the crazy class cat that likes to come lie down on your papers when you're trying to work.  That's what you get for a vet tech class.

                                                             Birds we saw at the Aviary in Salt Lake for our class

                                                              Pretending to look intelligent in the mini Vet clinic van at the Aviary

Everyone else called it Owl Forest.  I called it Owl City

                                                          Will the cat photo-bombing

                                                         

                                                             Horse- back riding in the Logan Canyon

                                                                    Hogle Zoo.  I think it'd be really cool to be a Veterinarian for a place like a zoo or humane society with with wild animals

                                                                     Had fun with this lion drinking fountain

                                                                 Like I said.  Most of the time we're studying. Yet sometimes we get distracted.

                                                              We bathed and groomed 8 adorable 5 week old Siberian husky puppies in class one day!

                                                     

             Snow Cones and awkward photos

                                                             After going to the fish hatchery in Idaho Falls we stopped by an Ice cave.  It was small. About a mile long and 50 feet wide. It felt like you were exploring it for a first time! It was dark so you had to use flashlights, no guide, no path except mud and rocks, bats around, and dripping water drops.  It was SO cool!

                                                       We named the fault lines also.  This one here is Jennifer's fault.  Elli's fault was a bit smaller (:

                                                                    Half our class in fromt of the cave

                                                                      Jennifer and me in front of the cave

Reached the back of the cave. Finally!

Mom, Dad, and I have been going on a lot of hikes as well this summer!