Hi,

Today (Monday, July 29), I began a new project. This one is more time consuming and requires more technical adroitness. I am to make a music video for the Leadership Conference on August 7 that provides a scope of the diversity of students that are enrolled in the Catholic school system. More than that, it's a video that will represent the ideals of Catholicism: hope, peace, and charity.

The song itself is written by a mother of a student in one of our schools. The scope of the song is to bring the hope of a new day - hence the name of the song, Brand New Day - to the students. Part of this hope, obviously, is created by peaceful and loving interactions among students, regardless of faith, creed, or color. It is my job, then, to find pictures which highlight the diversity within our schools, as well as the artistic expression of those ideals by children. By this I mean that part of the pictures which I will be putting in are drawings of what students imagine peace and justice and hope to be.

And so, it may not seem like much, but it is extremely time consuming synchronizing pictures and music, and all of the rest.

Peace