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I'm making a video slideshow for my boss' retirement party (tonight). I have the visuals done and just need to add the music. I have some classical CDs, but I'm not really sure what would work. I have iTunes, so if there is something y'all think would be perfect, I could download it. I need music that would fit the following:
1. Just Starting Out music for early childhood 2. Peppy Boy Scouty music for the school years 3. In college 4. Met and married his wife (Pachelbel's Canon?) 5. 40 years of working for the Boy Scouts. 6. Ending with music with a good finish for the final "Thank you" frame.
I'm a bit at a loss here. Any advice - something you think would be perfect?
Beren: That makes sense. There aren't really pictures of him with friends, though. It's mostly of adults - parents, grandparents, etc.
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"Kindergarten Wall" or "Room at the Top of the Stairs" both by John McCutcheon for little kid years.
edit: Just the beginning of "Room," though, since the whole song goes through moving out to go to college.
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For 1, "With a Little Help from My Friends" is fine
For 2, I recommend "Five Candles" by Jars of Clay
or you could flip those two without much trouble...
I think the Canon is a good one for the "Married his Wife" part... or "Unchained Melody" by the Righteous Brothers
I take it College was 40+ years ago? maybe a party song reflective of the Era? Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, or Little Richard perhaps? "Louie, Louie" might work, but the (mostly unintelligible) lyrics are supposed to be fairly offensive so that might be deemed inappropriate.
For 40 years of service, you might want a montage of songs... I'm gonna take a dare here, because it's not exactly appropriate, but it does just about cover the background of the time period: "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel. Garth Brooks' "Standing Outside the Fire" isn't too bad... it's about Love, but that implies service, too -- "Life isn't tried, it is merely survived, if you're standing outside the fire."
I think "Don't Stop" by Fleetwood Mac could be a real positive send off, saying "this isn't an ending, but a beginning." Semisonic's "Closing Time" actually ends with the line "Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." Neither are big glaring finales, though, both a little more of a quiet, reflective fade.
If you really want to be cute, you could use the instrumental "Sirius" by Alan Parsons Project. It's what Basketball Arenas use to get their fans revved up for the game... you know, when the lights go out and the spotlights come on and they start introducing the home team? I think that would be funny over baby pics or even pregnant mommy pics...
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He really likes classical music - is there anything classical-ly? Movie soundtracks would work, too. I am seriously thinking about using some of the Harry Potter soundtrack I love so much.
It's someone who likes classical music and has spent the last 40 years working for the Boy Scouts. I'm afraid daring isn't really in the picture.
*goes to listen to the Natalie Merchant song*
I was thinking of O Mio Bambino Caro for the wedding, because there's no intro.
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If he likes classical music, off the top of my head I think "Jupiter" from Holst's "The Planets could be funny for the opening.
Possibly "Flight of the Bumblebee" for the 40 years of Boy Scouts? That might depend on the pictures.
Of course, those two pieces are pretty well-known and recognizable...if he's really a classical freak, he might appreciate something less "popular", but I think the general audience would "get" those two pretty easily.
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Oh...Flight of the Bumblebee is a great idea. That will be for the Boy Scout camp years, I think.
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oh... for forty years of work, the end title to "Glory" might work nicely, I think. Try that...
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I really love that one. It's so big and dramatic that it always makes me smile.
Edit: the samples they have on itunes of "Jupiter" doesn't have the opening measures in it - that's the part you'd want.
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Okay, I just dug out my cd that has "Jupiter" on it, and it appears that I'm actually thinking of a different piece. I could've sworn that was it, but it's not, so now I'm trying to remember the right one...this will bother me all day otherwise.
It's a piece that gets used a lot at planetarium shows, and I think it's been used in soundtracks a fair bit...can't think of which movies, though....
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Another big, bombastic piece could be "O Fortuna" from Carmina Burana...that might be a bit over the top, though.
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"Gates of Kiev" from Pictures at an Exhibition (Mussorgsky) is a good fanfare piece.
I would think twice about using an aria for the wedding part. They almost always have some problematic lyric or context. If he's a fan, he might know them.
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quote:I would think twice about using an aria for the wedding part. They almost always have some problematic lyric or context. If he's a fan, he might know them.
You'd never get away with all this in a play, but if it's loudly sung and in a foreign tongue, it's just the sort of story audience adore - in fact, the perfect opera.
*grin*
Thank you for the Italian symphony suggestion. I have that one.
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Any Service Band playing the Carmen Dragon arrangement of America the Beautiful for the Adult Boy Scout leader stuff. Or any arrangement of Irvin Berlin's God Bless America. The Boy Scouts of America actually own the copyright for that one.
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I used both Bumblebee and Indiana for Boy Scouts years, which leaves college years unscored again. I'm really tempted to put in Chuck Berry.
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"I'm really tempted to put in Chuck Berry."
I think that is a fun choice. The younger folks all know Johnny B Goode from the Back to the Future movies, and it is a fun tribute to New Orleans. Posts: 4116 | Registered: Apr 2002
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My voice teacher pointed out to me that the fact that "O Mio Babbino Caro" is in practically every romantic opera song collection is hilarious. If you actually have it in context and translate it, she's having a gigantic adolescent fit at her father. It runs something along the lines of "Daddy darling, I want to go buy myself an engagement ring from this guy. I love him, and if I love him in vain, I'm going to throw myself into the river! Please, please PLEEEEEEEASE...."
Tantrums as romance-- doesn't work for me, but then again, I have toddlers, so tantrums as anything doesn't work for me.
quote: Oh dear daddy Oh dear daddy I love him, he is so handsome I want to go to Porta Rossa to buy the ring Yes, yes, I want to go there And if my love were in vain I would go to Ponte Vecchio and throw myself in the Arno I fret and suffer torments Oh God, I would rather die
Daddy, have pity, have pity Daddy, have pity, have pity
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How long is it? http://www.freeplaymusic.com has timed music in all styles, and is free as long as it isn't used in a comercial setting.
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The movie was made in Adobe Premiere. The music files are either .wavs or .mp3s.
I'm sure I did it inefficiently. It was the first one I ever made - I did my best. Does anyone know anything about AVI files?
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You have to compress it using a codec. Divx is the standard on Windows I guess. You probably have Quicktime 7 (since you have iTunes) and could compress it with Sorenson 3 (not sure if that is on the Windows version) or H.264/AVC/MPEG-4 layer 10. But the machine playing it would need that codec too.
Or you could compress it to MPEG-2 and burn it to a DVD. But I'm really the wrong person to be telling you because I only know how to do this stuff on a Mac.
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It worked! I don't know how - I didn't make it happen. It took about six people and borrowed equipment. But it will work. Yay!
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For anyone who still cares, here is the music I ended up using, in order:
1. A Storm Approaches from ROTK 2. Kindergarten Wall 3. Flight of the Bumblebee 4. Indiana Jones theme 5. Shake, Rattle, and Roll 6. O Mio Bambino Caro 7. Beethoven's 5th 8. Fanfare for the Common Man 9. Roman Carnival Overture, Op.9 10. Forrest Gump suite 11. Another Year Ends from GOF
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