The middle of the end of the beginning.

Continued from the beginning of the end of the beginning.

I was stuck with a screenshot of what I had created in Garage Band, and this did not capture the essence of the song I had written nor what my Cohort 21 action plan has thus far entailed. I thought about linking directly to the Google Document containing the lyrics themselves and it felt like settling. I had written some rhyming phrases, counted some syllables, and discussed poetic meter with Jessica Sheppard. I felt that it wasn’t enough and I wanted more.

I started thinking about lyric videos and wondering if I could create one to visually merge the Garage Band loops with my written lyrics. It sounded hard, though lyric videos are prevalent on Youtube, so there must be an easy way, right? I started imagining myself copy-pasting my stanzas into Google Slides and advancing through them whilst playing the song through iTunes during a very carefully timed Screencast-o-Matic screen capture. I’ve used this method of video creation many times. I could do this, yet it wouldn’t push me.

Out of curiosity I went into my applications folder and looked for iMovie. Adeel Farooq, Rosseau Lake College‘s Technology Integrator and my favourite man, told me that it was annoying and that he preferred other methods of video creation. Nevertheless, I opened the program, and started dragging and dropping pictures and video clips from Photos. I added some lyrics and tried adding more photos to them, which I could not do. I had it all upside down and backwards and it wasn’t working the way I thought it should. I dragged my Instructional Coach song into iMovie from iTunes and made a mostly black screen lyric video with a few intro and bridge photos. It nearly ended then and there.

This is the end of the middle. I will be back tomorrow with the start of the end of the end of the beginning. Thank you for reading.