JoCo Day 2014
Hi folks,
I see Brett has beaten me to the punch in asking if there are any plans for JoCo Day this year. I don't have any ideas for this years video, so I'll just start with a question. Do folks want to do our own recording, or just use something pre-recorded?
I see Brett has beaten me to the punch in asking if there are any plans for JoCo Day this year. I don't have any ideas for this years video, so I'll just start with a question. Do folks want to do our own recording, or just use something pre-recorded?
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Here's an dea: We could all sing The Doubleclicks' Nerdy Birthday song, just as it is, filming ourselves singing it and maybe other lyric-appropriate things (or if we feel like it, we could write additional verses.) It's short, so if a lot of people sing we'd have to switch between them pretty frequently in the video, but maybe the 'so say we all' at the end could show everyone in a grid like at the end of the first JoCo Day video. Hopefully it's easier nowadays; @chicazul did that one (magically, while I slept!) and I remember her saying animation was not her friend.
For reference, here is a playlist of all the previous JoCo day videos.
I don't have strong opinions on this. @angelastic has come up with some pretty clever filks in the past, so maybe she could rewrite the lyrics to one of JoCo's songs. If we don't want to use The Doubleclicks's song, I know a fairly straight-forward four-part a cappella arrangement of "Happy Birthday" (oom-pa-pa style). I'm happy to follow other folks' leads. Ideas aren't my forte.
ETA:
JoCo Day, JoCo Day, JoCo Day rock
JoCo Day swing and JoCo Day ring
Snowing and blowing up bushels of fun
Now the JoCo hop has begun
JoCo Day, JoCo Day, JoCo Day rock
JoCo Day chime in JoCo Day time
Dancing and prancing in JoCo Day Square
In the frosty air.
What a bright time, it's the right time
To rock the night away
JoCo Day time is a swell time
To go gliding in a one-horse sleigh
Giddy-up JoCo horse, pick up your feet
JoCo around the clock
Mix and a-mingle in the JoCoing feet
That's the JoCo Day
That's the JoCo Day
That's the JoCo Day rock
I think 'swell' should be changed to something that rhymes with 'Day', since it rhymes with 'bell' in the original. JoCo Day time is our play time? Actually, it could contrast night time and day time:
JoCo Night time, it's the right time
To rock the night away (or, to throw [some bad thing from JoCo songs] away?)
JoCo Day time is our play time
To sew monkeys to a one-horse sleigh
It's handy that this is a winter song, not a Christmas song, so we don't even have to remove any references to Christmas to make it appropriate for JoCo Day.
ETA: One possible problem would be that this song, unlike the others we've JoCo Deified, is not Creative Commons.
ETA: @Thalandor46: JoCo Day has a history of people posting simple ideas and then people going nuts and making them almost inachievably complicated, and then somehow pulling them off anyway.
JoCo Day is wunnerful,
wunnerful with you, JoCo Day.
JoCo Day is wunnerful,
wunnerful with you, JoCo Day.
JoCo Day is wunnerful,
wunnerful, wunnerful with you.
(repeat ad nauseam)
If we wanted to have an actual structure to it, each 'wunnerful with you' could have one fan pointing to (or just posing with, at a concert or elsewhere) another fan they met through JoCo, or JoCo himself, so that we have sort of an eternal chain slideshow thing, e.g. a photo of Fan A with Fan B, then a photo/video of Fan B with Fan C, then a photo of Fan C with JoCo, then a photo of JoCo with Fan D, and so on (the pictures with JoCo would ensure we could easily link disparate groups of fans who have never met each other. If people who have never made it to a concert want to join in, we could have a picture of them interacting with JoCo or the community online somehow. [ETA: If the series of fans will always stay close to JC and never trend away, that chain is in the man-do-rock set]) This could be done with still pictures as well as short videos, and mostly they'd be still pictures we already have (from concerts/cruises we've attended) so it should be easy [famous last words].
Here's how it would go, if we used the idea I mentioned above (not incorporating @BrettGlass's idea, because I wrote this while on a train and hadn't seen that yet. But feel free to suggest any kind of change or alternative that could incorporate that and/or other ideas) :
Things you would do: What the video would look like:
- pic of themselves with JoCo fan(s) and/or JoCo
- video singing one verse
- audio singing/playing (One verse? Whole song?)
I don't think there's enough time (or participants) to implement Angela's plan of passing the visuals from one fan to another.
IIRC, Alice just simplified the chords to I, IV, and V for the cruise. Off the top of my head, I don't remember which key.
G
JoCo Day is wunnerful
Wunnerful with you, JoCo Day
C
JoCo Day is wunnerful
G
Wunnerful with you, JoCo Day
D7
JoCo Day is wunnerful
G
Wunnerful, wunnerful with you
Yay, that is indeed a crap-ton of files! Edit: Good to see we already have a link photo between two of the participants!
@CamannWordsmith: Yay! :-)
As far as help goes, well I don't have much experience with musicy stuff (though I'm taking music classes on TWednuesday midnights, so I can no longer say I know nothing!), so if anyone wants to help with mixing audio, that'd be great. I can perfectly well line things up in GarageBand and twiddle knobs, but now we have two separate sets of backing music (one from @Colleenky and one freshly-uploaded by @CamannWordsmith) which is awesome, and and I want to use both of them, but I bet someone else can think of a better way to transition between them or merge them than I can. The files are all here.
I'll add the vocals myself along with the videos; that way the audio and video will be sure to be in sync, and I can choose the order of singers according to what other material we have and who we have pictures of together.
More videos, more vocals, more photos of people together and/or with JoCo would be great!
@CamannWordsmith: I don't have a lot of experience mixing. I can cobble something together in Audacity, unless you'd like to take a shot at it.
For the purposes of my own education (and choosing the right settings in GarageBand) what is the time signature and tempo of this song?
Edit: The file name is "JoCo Day Is Wunnerful (Instrumental)."
A hundred Thank-Yous, @colleenky. And to you @angelastic.