I decided to enter this year's Guitar Center Singer Songwriter 2 contest. My reasons are my own business, but I thought I'd share the making of the video I entered.
Filming it was simple enough. 5 takes and 2 cups of tea later, it was done. Sure, I still needed the lyrics in front of me, but that was more for nerves than anything else. The song isn't so new I don't know the words. I wrote the song in June and July, but had never done it performance style.
Editing and producing the video however, was MUCH more complicated. The editing it together just took a while because I had to wait for my files to convert, but that's not where the headaches started. Once the video was edited and everything was to my liking, I clicked Save to my computer. I'm using Windows Movie Maker by the way. After 11% completion, I got the error message saying that either my file paths were disturbed, the save to location was gone or there wasn't enough space to save it. All of which don't apply. I've triple checked. So I thought, ok, maybe this is just a glitch. So I copied the files into a new location and re-edited the video together as a new video. Same exact thing came up, this time, after 12% completion.
So I gave up. Refusing to believe it's an omen to not enter, I decided to just use the video with the audio the camera picked up. It's fine but the air is loud. Trust me, that isn't the kind of quality I want to put out to the world, but I really didn't have a choice. I spent 6 hours trying to get the video done. So, even though you see a portable recorder in the shot, the audio isn't actually from that. My apologies, but I did everything I could.
Without further ado, here is the video of me playing my latest song, Aren't You Tired Yet?
To find out how to help me win, go to www.guitarcenter.com/songwriter
Filming it was simple enough. 5 takes and 2 cups of tea later, it was done. Sure, I still needed the lyrics in front of me, but that was more for nerves than anything else. The song isn't so new I don't know the words. I wrote the song in June and July, but had never done it performance style.
Editing and producing the video however, was MUCH more complicated. The editing it together just took a while because I had to wait for my files to convert, but that's not where the headaches started. Once the video was edited and everything was to my liking, I clicked Save to my computer. I'm using Windows Movie Maker by the way. After 11% completion, I got the error message saying that either my file paths were disturbed, the save to location was gone or there wasn't enough space to save it. All of which don't apply. I've triple checked. So I thought, ok, maybe this is just a glitch. So I copied the files into a new location and re-edited the video together as a new video. Same exact thing came up, this time, after 12% completion.
So I gave up. Refusing to believe it's an omen to not enter, I decided to just use the video with the audio the camera picked up. It's fine but the air is loud. Trust me, that isn't the kind of quality I want to put out to the world, but I really didn't have a choice. I spent 6 hours trying to get the video done. So, even though you see a portable recorder in the shot, the audio isn't actually from that. My apologies, but I did everything I could.
Without further ado, here is the video of me playing my latest song, Aren't You Tired Yet?
To find out how to help me win, go to www.guitarcenter.com/songwriter
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