Another Lip Dub

On the 15 of June, Señora Ryan e-mailed me another lip dub. This was her old High School:


The part of this lip dub that I noticed was the great energy that the people in the background had. They were very enthusiastic, the kind of thing that I would like in my lip dub.

Earlier on in the term, I had another Mentor Meeting, I showed my plan, mock-up and proposal and also where I was up to with getting rights for the song.

I also didn't get a reply when I e-mailed the person who created the StAC lip dub so I got my Mum to give the me the contact for the Media teacher at StAC and I hope to contact him soon.

Sunshine & Rainbows
Hana

AHHHHHHHHH (Song Permission)

Earlier I tried to contact Jamie McDell's MGMT who I found via Twitter. He directed me to Jamie McDell so . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
I got Dad to have a conversation with Jamie McDell on Facebook:

I'm SOOOOOO excited. 

Sunshine & Rainbows

Hana

Gathering more Info

Today, I emailed the man who created the StAC lip dub.

These were the first two questions that Dr Bird asked me about my proposal. I can't wait to get a response. 

Sunshine & Rainbows

Hana

One Step Closer

Today, Apra|Amcos replied to my e-mail. They said:

I will need to contact Jamie McDell to get the rights to her song. She also went to a Girls' School which I think will help.

If I can find out if I can have the rights to the song this weekend, then it will hopefully mean that I have even more chance of our principal giving me funding :)

Rights - Figuring Out

Sunshine and Rainbows
Hana
 (Or Hannah - I'll answer to anything if it gets the job done)

Apra|Amcos - Music Rights

Today, I found out that I have a meeting with our principal to propose the lip dub on Monday! Mum and me are finalising the route and drawing a storyboard in the weekend. This is very exciting and it's really cool to see all of it coming together. I need to put together a good proposal with all the costs and how it will look so that I have a better chance of getting funding. I have started a presentation demonstrating the mock up, the costs and the storyboard.

I also had a mentor meeting today with Señora Ryan. I showed her my mock up, explaining that it would be slightly different in the real thing. She said that after the final scene, it would be quite good to have the school logo come up and fly in.

Another exciting progression is that I have found out how to acquire the rights for Life in Sunshine in three easy steps.

Step 1

Step 2

Step 3

I have sent an email to Apra|Amcos asking about how to acquire rights for a song. I hope to get a message back soon.

Get Rights for the Song - Started

Meet with Principal - Planned 

Sunshine and Rainbows

Hana :)

Daniel Comes to Selwyn House

On the last day of holidays, I organised a meeting with Daniel, my steadicam contact. Just after I called him, I wrote him an email asking if he could come into school to see the spaces I was going to use and if there were any potential problems regarding the steadi-cam or anything else he could see. As we walked around, he gave me some great advice and I am very grateful.

• The Steadicam works best if you are moving so try not to stand still
• Create a storyboard with one panel for each place so that you and the people in the space know what to do - Draw stick figures and annotate
• The steadicam works to stabilise natural movement
• With a video, you need to grab people within the first 10 seconds 
• Go round the spaces with the song playing on an iPod so that you can time it
• Kids on one rail only of the stairs or the steadicam won't be able to move properly

This was some great advice and I really appreciate it. Something else that Daniel said was to do with the pool space. He said that it would work better if I 'fudged' from somewhere to the opposite end of the school pool from the door, meaning that I wouldn't be back-tracking. Daniel also offered to operate the steadicam which was very helpful. Daniel works for I Do Films which are a company that make wedding films, so if you or someone else you know is having a wedding, please go to his website here.

Another exciting fact is my poll. The results of the 61 votes were very clear as to which song I should use - Jamie McDell - Life in Sunshine. Next step is to investigate how I go about getting the rights to use this song. 

Now that I have this information, I am even closer to talking to our principal with a mock up for my proposal.

Thank you to all of the people who have voted on my blog and for viewing it - I now have nearly 1750 pageviews. 

Figuring out which song ✔

Talk to experts ✔

Sunshine and Rainbows

Hana

FREAKING OUT!!! (But getting a steadicam)

Today, I called up one of my contacts, Daniel. He works for IDo Films and I knew that he owned a steadicam. I was really nervous just before calling - I think it's because I like being able to see the people I'm talking too. Before I called, I wrote down a list of questions that I wanted to ask him and I practised the beginning of the phone call with Mum!

Before

During

After

I didn't need to worry - Daniel was really nice and easy to speak with! He gave me lots of great advice about steadicams. Basically, they are like a pogo stick which a camera sits on, connected to a springy arm which is connected to a vest that the steadicam operator wears. This means that any footage that is filmed is steady even when the operator is moving around - hence the name steadicam.

A Steadicam and Operator

Daniel gave me lot of information about the cost of hiring a steadicam and an operator. I am thinking of using a half day option which is $500 for 4 hours for the steadicam plus $150 an hour for the operator. I don't think I will need the full day 8 hour option because of the small size of our school. 

This was a very exciting experience. I enjoyed being a risk-taker with this and I am really proud of myself! Next step for this part of the project is putting the costs together into a proposal and meeting with my new principal and the marketing manager at my school.

Thanks heaps Daniel!

Ring Places for Steadicam ✔

Sunshine & Rainbow

Hana

P.S - OVER 1,000 PAGE VIEWS!!
       
Thanks to all of my viewers.
   

Hopefully a Steadi-cam

Today, I asked my Dad to contact a lady that we know whose husband works as an editor. This is so exciting because I got his contact and he says that he would be able to help me to edit my lip dub.

She also put me in contact in with a man who owns a Steadi-cam. This is very exciting because it means that I will hopefully be able to get a Steadi-cam soon. I am writing a very short post to night but tomorrow I will most likely be creating another draft for a new route. I will write another post tomorrow.

Get a contact for a Steadi-cam - ✔

Sunshine & Rainbows
Hana

P.S The next route will include the Spanish Room :)

Sending The E-Mail

I am very excited. Today I sent the e-mail to the man who filmed, edited and planned the lip dub for StAC. I didn't use the same e-mail that I had drafted. I got my mum to proofread it before I sent it off. This is the final product:

I hope that he will be able to help me. If the cost or time is too much for my project, I will revert to my plan b (though I'd rather not) of creating a movie to showcase the school, but without the lip dub part. I can't wait to get a reply and am sure that he will be very helpful.

Sunshine & Rainbows

Hana

Getting A Contact

Today, I drafted an e-mail to the man who planned, filmed and edited the StAC lip dub.

I have decided not to start planning yet as the cost or time may be too much and I will have to either try to get funding from the school or revert to plan b; Filming a showcase of the school, with music behind it, but without the lip dub part.

If you have any ideas, please comment, or even just to tell me what you think.

Sunshine & Rainbows
Hana