Happy Birthday Dad

Welcome to your blog for your birthday.  I hope that you did indeed like the presentation and that the music was up to standard!!!!!!  (lisa was the insight)

Edit: I have decided to keep this blog open for future access to whoever wishes to use it.  Enjoy and goodbye!

As far as acclaim goes... its a biggy!

The first viewer thinks this:

This is truly a work of genius, truly and verily a phenomenal addition to the ancient and exalted tradition of imovie making. I am touched, moved and honoured to have played a small part in the making of this great opus. Exquisite, outstanding and extraordinary credit to my most talented and remarkable nephew Danny and to all who sail in her (him). (Even better than Heskey's equaliser last night - thank you Wigan!!) And if Sean doesn't laugh I will eat my sombrero.
Mucho love, Aunty Chris xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

EDIT: I can announce that there will be DVD's shipped out to whoever wants one!  Dad especially!

The Video

• Made By Danny Mercer
• Music suggestions: Lisa
• Editor: Danny
• Slight Editor: Oliver
• Site of interviews: Kelly Residence
• Thanks to Chris (for pics and name),  Granny (for pics and a great interview), Teddy (for not shouting when the coffee was spilt), lisa(for helping me out of a rut-music wise), Danielle(sorry for not adding the interview- I'll put it here), Oliver(for not ruining the ending), myself(for being effortlessly brilliant), Dad (for the birthday) and the viewers(for actually watching!)
• Now all's thats left is to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY SEAN.

This Video was made For Sean Mercer on his Birthday, in iMovie, and is not available for distribution on another site.  It is not available on YouTube.  If anyone has been missed out then I regretfully apologize. (detect the sarcasm?)

Didn't Quite make the cut

 

 I do love this one!

Here are three photos that were taken about 2-3 years ago in dads back conservatory and living room.  They are so good I had to put them here (sadly they didn't arrive in my iMovie inbox before it was finished and transfered into movie format)

The Story

The Video shall be along soon.  It takes a while to upload. edit: done!

Anyway, the story goes that I  recently lost my paper round job and am because of this 'strapped for cash' as the saying goes.  So I thought, what better way of saving money/showing my appreciation for all dad had done, then compose a film about him!  I spent almost an entire day with Granny Paula and Teddy, trawling through the pictures to find fairly decent ones.  We found a photo album, that dad himself had composed at roughly my age and I must admit that it was a bizarre sensation to be touching and looking at photos last seen and added by my father (as a child) then we spoke- at length- as to what to call it.  Granny, Teddy and me however couldn't come up with a decent title and so the role of name-calling fell to auntie chris, over the phone, in seconds she came up with the perfect title: 'bye bye byiee' (after dads beloved childhood teddy bear)

So when she came up to stay at granny's house, she worked with me to make interviews with of gran, ted, oliver, me and herself.  Thank you an awful lot!

As far as the actual making of the film, time-wise, it was rather short in the making,  5 minutes of scanning and about 1-2 hours of music/photo re-touching(there were an awful lot of aged photos!)  The ken burns effect (scroll on picture) took up the most amount of time, but I finished it all in one day... today.

Danny