One Love with Playing for Change, Grandma Shirley and Wendy Lang

SOMETIMES LOADS BETTER IN HD.
Mom and I love viewing the Playing for Change DVD, and Mom (who has Alzheimers') and her granddaughter Wendy love singing along. So I thought through how to put them into the Playing for Change video, now that I COULD create multi-camera with Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9. And I now had enough sound and video equipment to do it.

What I didn't think of beforehand in rigging this thing up was a monitor so Wendy could hear herself sing. Oh, easy solution, run a light earbud from the Zoom H2 mic/recorder in one ear, while she listened with both ears to the music on the heaphones.

My first version of this had the Playing for Change video too narrow, but I found a way to fix it, so here is improved version.

Please support Playing for Change in their wonderful work. Hope they don't mind that I did this. They have a channel on YouTube and see tons of stuff at http://www.playingforchange.com. I've also asked permission to keep it up.

Equipment. Portable dvd player with two headphone jacks. 2 large headphones. Microphone/digital recorder is the wonderful Zoom H2, set on 120 degree rear. Camera is Lumix DCM-ZS3 on AVCHD-lite (720 HD). Somehow, I converted the One Love 480 video into 720 for HD playing here on YT.

Comments on earlier version:
ppaul3: Great Job Carol. I think all involved would love what you did. And others should feel free to do this as well. Paul Adams, musician

What a magnificent tribute to all the artists as well as to your mother and niece. Love is the reason behind it all...It's amazing how you reveal this process through the eye of your Lumix. Blessings, Antoinette Botsford, storyteller

CaliforniaMedia: Absolutely delightful, charming, heartwarming - I hope you can keep it up here on YT. What a treasure for you and your family.

And...Great job, I loved it and have saved it to my
ipod touch to enjoy and to share it with my friends.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• One
• Love
• Playing
• for
• Change
• Music
• Therapy
• Alzheimer's
• Alzheimers
• Movie
• Studio
• Platinum
• Panasonic
• Lumix
• DCM-zs3
• TZ7

[ruffnruggd]

As my mother's battle with dementia is quickly coming to it's end, I happen to find this special version of Playing for Change's "One Love". Looking at your grandmother, she and my mother could have been sisters they look so much alike. Thank you for sharing this!! Singing along with the video, It was almost as if I were getting to sing one last time with my own mother... Something I would do anything to be able to do again. Thank you for sharing this... You will never know just how much it

[CarolJWright]

@ruffnruggd Am touched by your comments. Glad my mother gave you some happy memories to cherish. Am trying to share this video around a bit for National Alz month...november.

[ShawnLandersz]

that was beautiful! and i love that you left the end with "can we go inside now?"

hugs to grandma

[CarolJWright]

@ShawnLandersz

We couldn't have planned that one. If you listen carefully earlier Mom says, "oh,, look at the squirrel!" I should have oomphed up the sound there. and could have cut in shots of squirrel...

[oldyellr]

Playing for change and grandma Shirley simply warm my heart and bring tears to my eyes!

[CarolJWright]

Thank you. I am glad PFC hasn't removed the video. I wrote them and told them about it. Perhaps we'll film Stand by Me too, though the garden is a bit less comfortable.

[mythtree]

(((GRANDMA SHIRLEY)))

all the Grandma Shirleys...



[PelleRylander]

I love this. Music is a - if not THE - bridge.

[needapurse]

oh, i like this!!

its very different, its refreshing, thankyou earthenly for sending, i love you

xx nita

[chase123363333]

this song is bigger than reggae,universal,one love