Poi E - Boy Inspired Video

This was never suppossed to go online. The back story of it is pretty simple. Room 14 at Melville Intermediate School had a student teacher who wanted to do something special for her classroom. I got involved because there was a missed connection when the video was finished, they wanted to put the music to match the video. They were inspired by the movie "Boy" which finishes with a music video along similar lines. I wasn't there when they filmed it, prepared it, and it only really came together thanks to an associate "Rob" who had the original song on Nature's Best, Volume Two (I'd tried locating it as a download online and couldn't find the song) my contribution was simply to publish the song, I liked the input from the students (the adults of course are the teachers) but strictly speaking it wasn't produced by my classroom. I'm not about not promoting it, so hence the decision to publish it online. A good bit of fun, I can't comment on the teaching process involved in this video as I wasn't there for the planning, all I did in this instance was facilitated the publishing of it. It took something fun and turned it into something online. Does it need polishing? Absolutely. There's a significant part of the video where the idea was to use the stage curtains as a "black" area, the student filming didn't adhere to the boundaries of the curtains, so you can clearly see the edges. We've got some students dancing out of time. In my editing defence I received fifteen minutes of footage and what was included in the video (which is about four minutes) was absolutely the best fit, I considered doing a second one but couldn't really see the point.

Room 14 Matariki Video: Poi E from myles webb on Vimeo.