This video letter from KCI's EcoTeam, OneEarth, won the "Call the Prime Minister and David Suzuki calls you" video contest. The video was inpired by a brainstorming session the EcoTeam had to generate ideas for Countdown to Copenhagen.
Marie Snyder, a teacher at KCI in Kitchener-Waterloo writes about the making of the video on her blog:
"Students have been working on a video - an adaptation of Will.i.am's "Yes We Can". Below is how we worked the words and vocals along with the arrangement that I painstakingly weeded out by ear. It looks better in the original table, but you can figure it out. Watch the video to see how tricky it is to hear the individual singers!
We came up with the idea for a video letter last Thursday at an EcoSchool brainstorming session. I wrote the words on Friday, which were later altered slightly by a student collaborator. We put a call out for volunteers to be filmed on Mon-Wed. Then we filmed Thurs and Friday. We edited last night, and I went in again for too many hours today. It's a huge project, but very do-able - particularly if you recognize that students are not professionals, and the video will be much looser than the original, AND the multi-layering of the video hides lots of mistakes. I just learned how to edit yesterday, and I'm already addicted. I didn't get permission to use the tune, but apparently it's okay as long as I don't try to make money off of it. You have my permission to steal the words, but a shout-out and link to the blog would be sweet.
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