{"id":11568,"date":"2020-04-27T15:57:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T19:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/?p=11568"},"modified":"2020-07-14T14:21:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T18:21:21","slug":"transylvania-students-class-project-appears-in-charli-xcx-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/2020\/04\/transylvania-students-class-project-appears-in-charli-xcx-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Transylvania student’s class project appears in Charli XCX video"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Still from “Catch Me” in the Charli XCX video<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

After turning in a project for class, many of us would be happy if it earned us an A, or at least a little praise from the teacher. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Annahelen Croce, a first-year student at Transylvania University, was beyond happy \u2014 literally screaming with excitement, in fact \u2014 when she found out what happened with her final Music Technology assignment \u2014 a video she made after being inspired by singer-songwriter Charli XCX.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s because the British pop star had incorporated clips from Croce’s music video \u2014 “Catch Me” \u2014 into her own fan-sourced video, “Forever,” a montage of people’s quarantines and other snippets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I think I watched it like a million times,” she said. “I texted every single person I knew to watch it.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Croce, who produced her video at Transylvania’s DArt Lab, also can work on projects from home.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Croce, a digital arts and media major from Louisville, wrote an original song and, with the help of some friends from Transy, produced the video for professor Tim Polashek’s class. She used technology in the school’s Digital Art Lab<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then when Charli XCX asked fans for clips, Croce thought she may as well give it a shot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Honesty, I didn’t think it was going to get picked at all because there were thousands of submissions, but two of my clips actually got picked and I was freaking out,” she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rolling Stone praised Charli XCX’s crowdsourced montage<\/a>: “It\u2019s a shining document of this strange time we\u2019re all living in, combining the realities of quarantine life with memories of having fun in the time before social distancing.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You’ll find Croce’s clips at 1:43 and 1:59:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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