Filming

**__6/23/09__** I am planning on meeting several students at the school at 11:00 a.m. tomorrow to film shots 1, 2, 3, and 4. I will also film a few extra scenes with the students posing with library books and standing next to reading posters in the library, just in case we need these scenes during our final editing.

If you guys will start generating some music in Garageband or try to find some copyright free loops online, that would be helpful for the audio track. I'll post the clips of shots 1, 2, 3, and 4 once I get them filmed. If either of you have any new ideas or thoughts on what we have discussed so far, please post them, so we can discuss. Have a good week and talk to you soon.

Thanks, Melissa

 Please let me know what type of music you would like. Acoustical, classical, words, no words. I have iTunes plus with the DRM free. That means that I own it and can reuse, remix, and use it anyway that I want (well there are a few commercial restrictions). I have a number of classical artists and can import it into garage band or use it from imovie.

Do you want to upload the music to the page, or do you want me to add it to the movie after you splice it together? Courtney

__**6/24/09**__ Sulema and Courtney, I am having some technical issues with my camera right now. I spent the afternoon on the phone with tech support yesterday and no solution. It seems my iMac and Macbook (neither) will read the camera. I just used it the other day to import video, but I have done some updates since then that must have affected it. I am going to try it on another iMac and a different laptop when I go up to the school for filming at 11:00 today. If that doesn't work, I guess I will try to import the video by using another camera (I'll have to borrow one from someone). Hopefully, with all of these different attempts, something will work. I will keep you updated.

As far as the music, I would go with something upbeat and fast, cheerful-- instrumental only. I kinda had a fast exciting pace in mind. If you have other suggestions or thoughts please share. I think the music will come together a lot better after we get some footage to look at. In the meantime, I would just brainstorm about the audio track, without putting too much time in on that until we get some visuals. Melissa

I have never used Garage Band website. I went ahead and looked at it for a while. Great site. I think that maybe we should get three different types of music but all with no words. For example the graduate we could select the graduating march, the doctor a more cheerful note, and the astronaut like up beat and truimphious note.. Sulema

I asked my 15 year old daughter what music she would suggest for each picture. This is what she suggested: Graduate - Free for all by Nick Nolan, Doctor - Phantom Limb by The Shins. Astronaut - Taper Jean Girl by Kings of Leon. Sulema