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I cannot wait to begin our vlog/blog journey and learn together! Each week we will come together through vlogging/blogging to increase our exposure to several different signers. Each Deaf person is unique and has a distinct way of signing. It is crucial that you expose yourself to this. This will increase your signing "bank" and allow you to understand a very diverse population of people.
Lets begin!
Does someone just plain inspire you! RosaLee inspires me and I cannot wait for you to watch her. You are in for a real treat! She is amazing and her story telling and music interpretation leaves you wanting more.
RosaLee is an incredible performer in the Deaf Community. She travels all over the United States and performs her one woman show (this is a dream of mine! Can you imagine?). She is Deaf and was born into a Deaf family. She is amazing to watch and captivates her audience with her incredible energy and unique insight into the Deaf world. I have selected her for this weeks vlog/blog for you to enjoy and share your feeling about her and comment on the message she is working hard to portray.
Please watch her video that explains what she is all about.
http://rosaleeshow.com/about/
After you watch her introduction video, please watch her music videos. RosaLee puts a unique spin on her translations. See if you can get the message and comment on each video. What is she is expressing? How is her translation different from the words, but still on target with the message of the song. Be patient and watch these videos several times. Feel free to ask each other for help as well.
http://rosaleeshow.com/tag/video/
Happy Watching!
Monica
She's super cool! I like how expressive she is!! I also really like that she's gone to an acting school. I had no idea that there were acting/theater schools for the Deaf. (It's even in Hollywood! Maybe I can check it out ;D)
ReplyDeleteI liked her music videos. I like how well they go with the actual song. She did a really good job considering she's deaf and can't even hear the songs she's signing. I had seen the video for "Scream" before and I remember thinking how good it was and how easy it was for me to connect with it.
I think my favorite thing about her and her performances is how much visual art she uses. All of her videos and performances are *full* of video editing and tons of graphical art. Love it!
I thought that her intorduction was very inspiring... She seems to love what she does.
ReplyDeleteI've seen her scream vidoe before. I thought that it was so powerful and full of emotion. She is expressing her anger effectively... I mean we can deffinitely understand what she is trying to convey.
"Feels So Good" was just an overall feel good video. I really liked the media she used. Her signing was so fluid and poetic if you may. She signs with such grace. Her signing was almost identical to the words of the song and she was really on beat.
"Cry Me a River" was probably my favorite. I loved in the beginning how she used visual art of a photo album and pictures and had her video where the pictures where suppose to be. I also liked the different characters I guess you could call them when the chorus came on. It took me a few times of watching this video to really kinda get a grip on the message she was signing. I think that she translated this song to be about the struggles of growing up deaf and people trying to get her to talk and they confused her with someone who could talk. There was alot that I missed but that is what I got out of it.
"All I want" was very different. At first I noticed that she was signing different. I can't remember what it is called when you sign the 'ing' and are as 'r'... I think that this represents what Hearing people maybe imposed on her or other deaf children. Then later on in the song she becomes more expressive with her signing. She also interprets it differently. She starts to sign about being Deaf, hurt and sepparated. I assume this is her interpretation of the song as she feels.
These were all great videos and as I watched them over again I think I started to get the meaning of her interpretations. This is why I love ASL, everyone can interpret and express things differently depending on their experiences and views.
She is very good at what she does it seems. And from her introductory video she loves what she does. Everybody should love their job. She is very expressive and she signs so nice and beautiful. It was a very inspiring intro video.
ReplyDeleteHer music videos were great to watch. I have seen scream before and it is a very graphic video of her showing all the emotions and anger that go along with being in a hearing world. It feels so good was a good signing video. With her being Deaf and all you would think that it would be hard to be on beat but she was moving right with the beat. That was neat to see. Cry me a river was a little hard for me to interpret. I think she was going back and forth between a man and a women. but I am not sure what she was conveying. All I want was a very good song. Did she write it? She was conveying that she is alone by the shore and that the people on the shore were all hearing and she is deaf.
I thought her intro was very well put together. At first i thought it was one of her videos and I got really confused as to why what she was signing had nothing to do with what was being said. She seems very much into entertaining her audience. I like how she incorporates the media and "digital art" into what she does. It put a spin on things and i feel like it draws more people in. Not that she really needs too, her style of sign and song interpretation is so "graphic" it's captivating. It's also so visual it makes it seem like most people could have an idea of what she is signing.
ReplyDeleteI have also seen the scream video before. I think it is very powerful and the feelings are conveyed very well by facial expression and the force of movements, it is clear that anger is the emotion.
"It feels so good" was very much translated word for word. I liked this video because of what I think the message is, enjoying the simple things in life. She showed pure happiness throughout the video and her actions were also very "bubbly."
"Cry me a river" was a harder video for me to follow along with. I liked how in the beginning that it was set up as a photo alum, I'm thinking the significance of this was to show a past relationship but I;m not sure. I think the message was about the girl and guy being together but then the girl went out with another guy. I think she was trying to go back to the guy but he wanted nothing to do with her. This confuses me because it is way off of what Josie said. But by far the hardest video for me.
"All I want" was a very interesting song, i really enjoyed it. I liked how in the beginning she started out with a our translation and then slipped into a story. From what I got out of it she was the only deaf person on the beach with a crowd of hearing people. I think she was trying to convey loneliness and a wanting for the hearing group to invite her to join. I am a little confused though, because from what I interpreted i would think her face would be more sad. To me her face is expressing happiness more than sadness.
love it! She really is amazing at what she does. The interview with her was very interesting, the way she describes her profession was eye-opening to me. She is a performer of arts but at the same time she does it to send a message and make a difference. Her whole outlook on life is very inspirational.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed the music videos a lot. I had seen the scream video before but the others were very good as well. I love the power and emotion that she puts into her interpretations and her facial expressions and body language really tie everything into the outstanding performances we watched.
When I began to watch the about me section of her I did not understand what she was signing because it didn't seem to match what was in the captions, maybe I'm wrong. I like her, she signs very well and bold. Follows what she wants to do and maybe all the art and graphical things she does I feel may not really express true signing but she is also addressing to hearing people which is sweet so that everyone is involved. She is sooo expressive as is many other deaf signers. yet all of her videos are filled with excitement and energy they are quite interesting. Scream was my favorite I think.
ReplyDeleteI love how passionate she is about what she does and how expressive she is. It is so clear that she has so much fun and puts her whole heart and soul into her work.
ReplyDeleteIt is so interesting to watch these videos because you really get to see all of the emotions behind the lyrics, which cannot be seen without sign. It really makes you think of the songs in a different light! I also really liked how much graphic art she included in her videos, it added a lot to the overall effect and made them fun to watch! However, I felt at times that some of the graphics and change of outfits were a bit distracting, or "noisy". The best example I can think for this is during Cry Me a River when the frame split into 4, seeing all the movement everywhere, i felt, was a little too much.
Overall I think her work is great and inspiring and very cool to watch!
The music videos were very interesting but I became distract by all the effects and the wigs. The cry me a river video was my favorite. I liked the way she changed the lyrics to her own experiences with her deafness. At first it took me a while to understand what she was say i probably still dont really know what she is saying, but what i did understand was very interesting.
ReplyDeleteScream i didnt like.... Scaryyy!!!... lol.. and i didnt like the fact that she was wearing a black shirt, she should have worn a white shirt because it would have made it easier to see her signs.
Jazmine L. Scott
I like how she shared her background about her father and her mother, and how she said her mom is a very active deaf woman and Rosa lee has a lot of her mom in her. Her videos are very animated and i love that because that is a big component of asl. Her videos are good examples of facial expression how to put power into signing and i really enjoyed watching her videos!
ReplyDeleteLindsey
I am still confused on what she was trying to convey on "Cry me a River" because I had the same view as Amanda did but then Josie got something totally different out of it. Also after going through the last song in class without the sound helped me a lot to figure out what she was trying to convey.
ReplyDeleteAfter class today I rewatched the videos without sound and it is amazing how much easier it is to focus on the signs. I think that for us being hearing we are trying to match the signs to what we see when in reality we should be connecting what we see to what we hear. I hope that made sense. RosaLee's way of interpretation i think is going to take some time for me to get use to. I always look for signs that match what is being said..not the story behind what is being said.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Hailey L. that the screen splitting into four was distracting in "Cry Me a River." And Emily, Don't go by what I interpret because I am really bad at it :) ha...
ReplyDeleteI do agree with amanda that watching without sound makes it easier to understand what she is translating from the song. Thats the beauty about ASL, one person may sign a song different than the next depending on there feelings. Understanding meaning is very challanging for me because I'm a very literal person. I'll have to work on that :)
I definitely agree with Amanda and Josie, it is so easy to look for signs when we know the songs and can hear the music. A good example of this was during class when we watched the Bad Romance video, without actually knowing or hearing the song it would be near impossible to understand what he was saying. It was so awesome to watch the video in class of All I Want, especially without sound, because we really got to focus on RosaLee and better understand the message she was trying to get across. I love how she could take a song and express it in a completely different way than most people would think of it as. She is such a great artist!
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with Amanda about the fact that it was way easier to understand without the music. For example in class the whole “skill” thing where we watched it over and over. Once the sound was off I felt like I was way more able to grasp what was signing and able to absorb the story much better. I think Amanda is right about how we don’t really mean to but when sound is on and trying to use our sight to read is a much harder task because we try to connect it to what we hear.
ReplyDeleteShe is still a great signer and performer. Her signing is quite amazing and to follow the lyrics and beat of the music is quite astonishing. However, like many of us have said, I’m not really a fan of all the “noise” in her work but it does add energy to the video.
Jefff Cozzi
i do like that we watched the videos in class because its interesting to get everyones perspective on what the video means, and i like the different interpretations. i think that music is a powerful way to express feelings and emotions, and i love watching people sign songs because asl is an emotional language so the songs are fun to watch! i think rosa lee is a great performer and that her videos do send out messages
ReplyDeleteI totally agree that watching without sound makes it sooo much easier to understand the signing. As a hearing person, the sound is super distracting for me.
ReplyDeleteI really liked all of RosaLee's videos. I had seen her "Scream" one before, and I really like how she did all of the visual effects. Sometimes they got distracting, but I think it was just her way of trying to put some of the passion and expression of her signing into the video...did that make sense?
I really liked what Amanda said about connecting what we see to what we hear instead of trying to make the sings we're seeing to the words we're hearing. Really good point.
I hope that we continue to discuss these blogs in class. Like that we write on here, AND watch/read/etc what is on them.
I also agree with amanda, you have to watch the video several times to understand it, but to truely understand the video you needed to turn off the sound.
ReplyDeleteI agree with everyone and everything said.
ReplyDeleteAaaand, yeah.