Everyone has a role in Arlington school's music video

[tammywammy]

Everyone has a role in Arlington school's music video

ARLINGTON — A school in Arlington is doing something that's never been done in our area — at least not like this.

Martin High is one of the biggest schools in Texas. Students told administrators that there was no sense of community or family, and that can be a serious problem.

The solution they came up with is a blast — what they hope will be the world's largest "lip dub" video.

It was shot Thursday with one camera in a single take and features 20 students dancing through the hallways of the massive campus while lip-synching to pre-recorded music — but with every one of their 3,400 classmates playing a part.

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http://www.wfaa.com/news/special/rachels-challenge/Everyone-has-a-role-in-Arlington-schools-music-video-106734934.html

Link to video: http://vimeo.com/16546469

I think this is pretty neat.

[w8liftinglady]

1. that's pretty cool!Good for Arlington...!

all the kids contributed.That's such a big deal...I love it.

[tammywammy]

3. Yeah, it's a neat idea

And also by building a sense of community you also are initiating an anti-bullying at the same time. If you identify with each other it's harder to bully.

Plus, I'll admit I have a bit of a soft spot for Martin HS, I did graduate from there. :)

[madrchsod]

2. there`s a school that did this backwards....

[tammywammy]

4. I'm not sure I know what you mean....

[madrchsod]

5. instead of walking forward they walked backward through the video

[sonias]

13. Most of the people lip synching in this video are walking backwards

Aren't they? The camera crew is walking towards them. The rules are the camera has to take the whole video in one shot, no cuts in the video. They of course can sync the music. It takes a tremendous amount of planning, cooperation and creativity.

The neat thing about this video is that every member of the school took part. Way to be inclusive Martin!!

The Warrior Post 11/4/10
Lip Dub 2010 – Martin High School

Click here for Martin’s historic almost-4,000 member Lip Dub video. Shot in one take, this video includes every student, teacher and staff member in the school, united for a single purpose: to produce the most creative, awesome, brilliant video ever.

:applause: :toast: :bounce:

[WolverineDG]

6. it was a video contest between 2 schools in the Seattle area

the challenger made a video "backwards," meaning all of the dancers, performers, walked, danced, even sang backwards. The kid in charge of their entry spent a lot of time listening to the song in reverse & wrote the backwards lyrics phonetically, then taught them to his friends. Both videos, btw, are very cool

dg

[tammywammy]

7. Ahhh, interesting. n/t

[MrsBrady]

10. i don't know if this is the original or not

this is pretty cool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7TI-AJi2O8


good on Martin. Thanks for your fun video.

[onestepforward]

8. Awesome!

Very cool to include ALL 3400 students! :)

[beac]

9. That was neat.

I bet the kids had a blast doing it. I'll bet it took a while to clean up after it, but I'm guessing that was part of the fun.

[tammywammy]

11. Kick

[sonias]

12. Yea for Martin High!

Very nice! Good for these kids. :toast: :bounce::bounce:

My absolute favorite lip dub
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zcOFN_VBVo| I Gotta Feeling by a university in Canada.

[seabeyond]

14. sense of community missing, too. ah... that was excellent. how many potential accidents

did you almost see, lol.

couple gasps, like going backward on stairs and not looking or holding onto rail.

also, i am curious how camera went so fast and smoothly. there were stairs.

that was good. thanks for posting

[kjackson227]

15. This high school seems like one big family...

we need many more like it :)