My OperaNowt like a good send-off
Monday, April 23, 2007 12:56:36 PM
On Friday one of my work colleagues, Jean, retired. Lucky woman.
Friday night saw us (about 24 people) in a local restaurant going into overdrive on the presentation front, including some very silly in-joke gifts, followed by a CD and DVD specially done for the occasion. This is the music project mentioned in an earlier post.
It started with a song about Jean invented by a former colleague (Els), which got expanded when some bright spark (Julie) suggested we record it for a CD. Then I found a MIDI file of the tune (Little Donkey) with, bizarrely, a country feel, so having recorded a bunch of us singing acapella in my office one morning, I set about attaching the singing to the backing track... yes, that is the wrong way round!! Anyway it achieved a suitably amateur finish, by which time someone else had suggested doing a video. So we did a shoot one morning using a digital camera, complete with daft dancing and I set about editing it together with the finished music. At least this was the right way round!
Well, the result was mightily funny. A CD of the acapella version and the country mix, a DVD of the country version, and suitably daft covers hacked together in Photoshop.Brought the house down on the night, and Jean has a permanent reminder of just how daft her colleagues could be.
A triumph of the Blue Peter approach to media production, too!
Friday night saw us (about 24 people) in a local restaurant going into overdrive on the presentation front, including some very silly in-joke gifts, followed by a CD and DVD specially done for the occasion. This is the music project mentioned in an earlier post.
It started with a song about Jean invented by a former colleague (Els), which got expanded when some bright spark (Julie) suggested we record it for a CD. Then I found a MIDI file of the tune (Little Donkey) with, bizarrely, a country feel, so having recorded a bunch of us singing acapella in my office one morning, I set about attaching the singing to the backing track... yes, that is the wrong way round!! Anyway it achieved a suitably amateur finish, by which time someone else had suggested doing a video. So we did a shoot one morning using a digital camera, complete with daft dancing and I set about editing it together with the finished music. At least this was the right way round!
Well, the result was mightily funny. A CD of the acapella version and the country mix, a DVD of the country version, and suitably daft covers hacked together in Photoshop.Brought the house down on the night, and Jean has a permanent reminder of just how daft her colleagues could be.
A triumph of the Blue Peter approach to media production, too!
