Is Putting a Video On the Internet Really This Hard?

Over the weekend, I had my friend "B" come over so we could film a video of a dance she came up with for an english project. You're now probably wondering how english class has anything to do with dancing whatsoever, but it does. Our assignment was to display the meaning and themes of the movie Bowling For Columbine in any artistic way that we wished. I chose to write a poem, where "B" decided to dance to a song that represented the themes in the movie. It shouldn't be too hard right? And this is where my assumptions were wrong.

Making up the dance and then recording it to music is only the half of it; getting it to our teacher on time is another story. After finally getting the routine down, it was a bit dark out, mind you we were doing this outside in three degree weather. I turned on my porch light and another light that successfully provided sufficient light so that you could see "B" in the video. The song "B" chose to dance to was playing in the background, but on the video you can hardly hear it. This was fine, because we just assumed that we would somehow mute the original video and put the song in. Easy? Not for us. Once the video was all recorded it was about eight thirty at night, when we finally posted it to our teacher's Facebook page it was about ten o'clock. It took numerous tries and guesses as to how we were to put music in the background and how we were going to send it to our teacher.

Eventually we made a Youtube account, which was new, and after many tutorials and exploring we finally posted a video on the internet, except without music behind it. This made the ordeal even harder to accomplish. In order to view the video the correct way, you have to look up the song and have it playing in the background at the same time you are watching the muted, original video. Thank goodness for Facebook, or else we wouldn't have been able to do this. "B" and I wanted to watch the video back, just to laugh at it, and did we laugh. My camera didn't so much pick up on the sound of the background music, but it did when "B" had to fall at one point in the video. It was hysterical listening to it; one second you would hear music and the next, a loud thud and "B" on the ground. Overall it was a learning experience, who knew it takes that long to upload a video to Youtube? I certainly didn't. Or maybe that's just my nine-year-old computer.

That is all

-"M"