Myvoxsongs were fortunate enough to be invited along to a YouTube Partner Meet Up day in London in June. We had a great day understanding the scale of what YouTube has to offer both it’s partners and it’s viewers. We were also told about a fantastic competition where they were inviting video entries from their partners with less then 50,000 subscribers to tell them what our YouTube channel is about. Up for grabs is one-to-one mentoring and training with regard to video making and channel optimisation as well as £15,000 to go towards software and equipment.
Well, without further a do we set to work pretty much straight away. We don’t usually work to a strict deadline but as June 28th was the last day to apply for entry we had just two weeks to pull it off. We worked every spare moment we had , between a full time job, the kids school, playgroups etc and there were plenty of late nights. The dancing characters concept was something we have always wanted to do but as it doesn’t really form part of a traditional nursery rhyme narration we hadn’t approached it…until this opportunity came along. I do a street dance class where I learned how to put a dance routines together so this helped when trying to choreograph the characters. As usual all the characters were hand drawn and all the dance moves animated frame-by-frame. This is the final result:
The song ‘Our World’ was written and performed by Olly Drew & Georgia Lyons. Georgia Lyons is our very talented thirteen year old niece who wrote the lyrics to ‘Our World’ (the song was slightly adapted by Olly to suit the YouTube NextUp contest). Thank you Georgia for doing a wonderful job! You may have already heard Georgia sing on some of our nursery rhyme songs such as Five Little Speckled Frogs, The Wheels on the bus and This Little Piggy Went to Market. Georgia recorded her first nursery rhymes with us when she was just 2 and a half years old and ten years later she is a budding songwriter. Watch this space for more from Georgia Lyons.
The song was recorded during one weekend and then set against the animation. Editing was the last factor for the video. We added a montage of our work and used wordle.net to create a fancy backdrop with relevant messaging about us. We managed to upload and enter the competition in the nick of time and were overjoyed when we found out that we had made it into the Top 80 UK entries.
These 80 videos are up for a public vote. The Top 20 will be judged by YouTube where they will select 8 winners. There’s just 2 days left to vote so if you like the video please please vote for us everyday until July 9th. All you have to do is click here, select UK from the top right hand drop down box, find our thumbnail & VOTE . If you want to see more of our videos then please vote. Your support is always appreciated. We’ll let you know if we get through.
Emma
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