What I did at school today: 5/29/13

The highlight of my day was editing a video for next week's film festival.  A fourth grade teacher had her class perform "You've Got to Have Art", a light-hearted reminder of the importance of arts education.  To the tune of "You've Got to Have Heart" from Damn Yankees, the students, dressed in matching baseball uniforms, sang, and danced their . . . hearts out.

I recorded their performance five times.  For the first two tapings, I placed the camera far enough back to capture the entire stage.  The others were close up from the left, center, and right.  I used the software Movie Plus and placed the better of the first two recordings on the video/audio track.  Then I cut pieces of the other videos, muted the audio, and inserted them on the overlay track.  The finished video alternated wide shots and close shots, but kept the original audio uncut.  We're considering rerecording the singing with just audio and replacing the audio from the video.  Anyway, it's late, and there's more work to be done, but I'm pretty proud of it so far.  Editing video is one of my favorite things to do, especially when it's challenging and involves music.