May 29, 2006
Moon River
Two years ago I posted a short video made while experimenting with Windows Movie Maker. The video was made using a cheap webcam and featured me playing a simple arrangement of "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" on my acoustic guitar. According to the webstats that video gets viewed about a hundred times each month. The quality is pitiful and the performace is not particularly good, but if you go to video.search.yahoo.com and type in "rainbow" it comes up on the first page - that's probably why it gets so many visits.
This afternoon while messing around with the Fuji FinePix digital camera I figured out how to make it function as a webcam while in it's cradle. Picking up the nearest guitar, a modest student model Yamaha classical, and loading up Windows Movie Maker, I recorded an arrangement of "Moon River". The arrangement is a "work in progress"... but the Fuji camera makes a better picture than the old webcam.
6MB Windows Media Video file (Right Click and Save As...)
"Moon River" (a .MP3 file) sung by Audrey Hepburn in BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S (1961).
music by Henry Mancini, lyrics by Johnny Mercer.
