The Finished Product!

Here it is - my finished Lip Dub!

Hope you enjoy it - I had so much fun making it. Please leave me a comment, and feel free to share the clip around as widely as you like!



Sunshine and Rainbows

Hana

On Air!

My reflection for today - Speaking live on television is hard!

Today I spoke on Canterbury Live after they played my lip dub. It was so exciting to see my lip dub finally go live and to realise that I have actually made it to the end of my personal project successfully!

I have had some awesome feedback from lots of people about my interview. It was a hard thing to do, but I am glad I did it.

Sunshine and Rainbows

Hana

The Countdown Ends!

Yay! Tomorrow is the day I go to CTV and my lip dub gets shown on their "Canterbury Live" programme at 4.30pm. Lisa sent through some possible questions that I might get asked, but she warned me that Andrea, the host, will probably go off track and ask me some things that aren't on this list!

How did you come up with the idea of the lip dub for your school project?

How much planning did it take?

You asked permission from Jamie McDell to use her song - how did you go about this and what was her response?

You involved the whole school - how many students and staff did this include and how long did you have to rehearse for?

It was all done in one shot - what kind of organisation did this take?

You got to be involved with the editing here at CTV - what was that experience like?

What was your favourite part of the whole process?

Are you proud of what you managed to achieve?

Yesterday, the lip dub was shown to the entire school at assembly. Afterwards I got a lovely email from one of the Junior School teachers:

"The gorgeous part of today was watching the Year1 girls face's as they viewed it. They were mesmerised by it and loved seeing themselves especially. I hope it ends up on the website so we can all view it over and over."

Nearly there! My board is looking great! I can't believe I am almost at the end!

SNEAK PEEK NUMBER SEVEN:

Sunshine and Rainbows

Hana

Clipper Board

I found a great piece of clip art today that I will use as the background for the information on my planning board. By making screen shots of pictures from the lip dub, I can add them to the clip art of the movie clipper board. This is the result:

Today I did lots of work putting my ideas from my blog and my essay into bullet points so that there isn't too much information for my audience to read on my board. When I print them out tomorrow at school, I will get a better idea of whether the colours I have chosen work or not. 

Tomorrow morning I play my lip dub in assembly to the whole school! I hope they enjoy it!!

SNEAK PEEK NUMBER SIX:

Sunshine and Rainbows

Hana

3 Days to Go!

Today I have continued to work on my presentation board. I have heard from CTV and they want me at the studio on Tuesday at 4.15pm, ready to go live at 4.30pm! Next week at school we start putting everything together ready for Thursday! It's going to be a busy week!

SNEAK PEEK NUMBER FIVE:

Sunshine and Rainbows

Hana

Feedback

Hooray! I am so excited that my lip dub is going to be shown on TV soon. Yesterday the lip dub was shown to the staff, and although I couldn't be there, I got lots of fantastic feedback, including:

Wanted to let you know how fantastic the Lip Dub looks and how superbly organised it was.
We are very proud of your efforts - look forward to the positive fallout it will bring our way.
It couldn't have turned out better. 
It is obvious the careful creative planning you have put into this. 
A fantastic legacy to leave for the school. 

SNEAK PEEK NUMBER TWO:

Sunshine and Rainbows

Hana

Filming Day!

Today was the big day and I thought about my lip dub throughout it. During lunchtime, I setup the Tech Room with help from my teacher and the Atrium with help from some other girls. Then, just after lunch, we all gathered below the stage. Then we dispersed to our starting positions. From then on, anything that needed to be fixed, couldn’t be fixed.

The first time we ran through it was quite bad probably because the cameraman hadn’t been through the route yet and was getting directions fired at him by Dad who was holding the sound system. We did it a second time and it got better. The third time was good but there were some fix ups that needed to happen. The cameraman walked round slowly so that he definitely knew where he was going.

After a final shoot, I got up and said thank-you to all of the girls for their enthusiasm and to the teachers for interrupting their programme. And then, it was all over. This is a sneak peak!

I don't currently have access to the footage at the present point but I will have it on Friday when I go to the CTV editing suite in the morning, where I will see, find out about the editing and hopefully do a bit myself.

Sunshine & Rainbows

Hana

Whole School Practice

Friday was a very exciting day. Just after lunch at school, we had a final rehearsal for the CTV filming of my lip dub. Everything went so well and there was a great buzz around the school. We ran it through three times with Dad filming on the iPad. Here is a sneak peak at the rehearsal. (I don’t want to show the real thing just yet.)

Lip Dub - School Wide Practice - Video Maker

As you can see, it was very successful but I still have a few more gaps to fill. On Sunday night, I watched it through with Mum and we noted down all of the gaps that needed to be filled and all of the fix-ups that needed to happen. We also decided that we would have words flashing up on the screen saying what we were doing. They were things like ‘We innovate’ ‘We design’ ‘ We create’ and at the very end, we decided to put the school motto ‘I am, I can, I ought, I will’ but we changed it up a bit to say ‘We can. We ought. We will. We are Selwyn House.’

So excited for Tuesday - I hope the weather will be fine!

Sunshine & Rainbows

Hana

The 1st Route

Today, I got some sheets of A2 paper with the map of the school so that I could start planning my route. I went back to my data and looked at the summary which shows me which areas of the school the most people voted on. I used this, and my own personal favourites, to create a draft of a possible route. It was great to have ideas from the rest of the school because they thought of things that I would have forgotten. The final graph ended up looking like this.

Creating a route took a lot longer than I had expected. It wasn't just the places I had to think about, I needed to consider what activities were going to be happening in these places. Some activities such as Makerspace or Cooking required a teacher. This was something else that I needed to consider. 

Some activities, like FPS and KidsLit, although they were popular when I looked at my survey, I could tell that they would not translate well onto a screen. For this reason, I chose activities that had lots of movement and ones where it would be clear what was going on.

The first route that I came up with is this:

I soon as I finished this route, I realised that I had forgotten a couple of important things. For example the Spanish Room (sorry Señora Ryan LOL) and the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme that runs at Selwyn House.

I will continue to create drafts and after about three or four drafts I will have a mentor meeting with Señora Ryan and get some feedback from her and my Mum on which route they think will translate best to screen. I need to decide on a route soon so that I can create a mock up of the lip dub for my proposal.

Map of the school/Route ✔

Sunshine & Rainbows

Hana

My First Mentor Meeting

On Tuesday, I had my first mentor meeting with Señora Ryan. I told her what my personal project was about and then how my progress had gone so far. She thought that I was on the right track and didn't need much help from her for the time being. Her advice to me was that I had a mock up of what the lip dub might look like when I propose to get funding by just using a handheld camera and maybe getting one of my peers to walk around with me so that our principal can have a good idea about what it might look like. Then I will most likely have a better chance of getting funding.

While I'm here, here's another clip to get you thinking. What parts of the school do you think I should showcase? I think, definitely the music room, all of our specialists and the IB Programme.

Receiving A Reply

On the 1st of March, I received an e-mail back from my expert. He answered my questions very thoroughly and I put together some of his main points to share with you -

• Approximately it took him a month and two weeks to plan, film and edit the lip dub
• Approximately it cost him $2000 dollars to plan, film and edit the lip dub not including editing equipment and other things that his school already had. He said that that would cost about $2000 dollars more, although he did hire a segway and special sound system and given that Selwyn House is quite small I probably won't be needing a segway!!
• He told me to get in touch with the composer of the song that you chose and check it with them if it is okay to use their song. Also, it's easier to get in touch with a New Zealand artist so try to chose an upbeat, fun, recognisable, Kiwi song.
• The most important step is planning. Everything needs to be thought out before the day because you don't wait to have major problems on the day of filming caused by you forgetting something. 
• When filming, you need to get people engaged and excited so that the school looks good on camera.
• Necessary equipment - A camera (a stedicam is better if you can get hold of one), sound system (for playing the music so that the people who front it, the people who go in front of the camera, can lip-sync in time.)
• Helpful but not necessary equipment if you can't afford it - Lighting (for moving from outside to inside), a helicopter (probably not necessary, but how he did the last shot in the StAC lip dub), Segway (As I said earlier, I probably won't need one)
• IT IS NOT EASY! If you can pull it off, you can be very happy with what you have achieved, but it is by no means a small undertaking.

I was very grateful for his prompt response. Now, I will need to find out more information. My next step will be to find out exactly how much it will cost. I probably won't need lighting, a helicopter or a segway so that takes off some of the $4000 dollars that it might cost. I will also need to find out what editing equipment I will need to use as I have not done this sort of thing before. Then, once I have the costs,  I will need to make a proposal to our principal to see if I might be able to get some funding for the lip dub. 

Sunshine & Rainbows

Hana

What Is A Personal Project?

This year, all year 8 students at my school are going to be doing a personal project. This is part of the IB programme, where you can choose to do a project on anything; icing cakes, composing music or even making an agility course for your dog. You need to make sure that it is something that you love, and will love in three terms time, because you do it for three terms.

I have decided to make a lip dub to showcase the school. Then I will donate it to the school so that they can use it for marketing. Some of my inspiration came from the St Andrews College's lip dub that they did to showcase their school. Here is their lip dub.


I can't wait to create my lip dub. I hope that I will gain skills such as organisation, time-management and filming skills. I hope that you can follow my process through this blog. In term 1, I will do most (or all if I can manage it) of the research and testing out the cameras and things. Then, in term 2, I will film and edit my lip dub so that it is ready to go in term 3, when I will work on the presentation of my work and writing the essay that you need to write. This essay is what most of the marking of the personal project is done on.

Sunshine & Rainbows
Hana

P.S. There will normally be more pictures, I just don't have any yet :)