[Vision2020] MHS on You Tube

[Carl Westberg]

That's great! If the MHS class I graduated with 43 years ago had done something similar, it would have been filmed on Super 8, and if we'd lip synched the number one song of 1969, it would have been "Sugar, Sugar" by the Archies.  It's just as well we did not do that.  

From: london at moscow.com
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:33:30 -0700
Subject: [Vision2020] MHS on You Tube





Moscow-Pullman 
Daily News
MHS students show 
school pride with lip dub 
By Holly Bowen, Daily News staff writer 
| Posted: Friday, April 20, 2012 1:00 am 
Hundreds of Moscow High School students 
catapulted themselves to Internet stardom this month thanks to a lip dub video 
they created to showcase their school spirit.
During the video, nearly all of the school's 
approximately 600 students dance, lip-sync and otherwise strut their stuff 
through the hallways and classrooms they spend most of their time in each school 
day.

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The video, which features students lip-syncing 
and dancing to the song "Pump It" by the Black Eyed Peas, has been watched more 
than 8,500 times since it was posted on YouTube on April 10.

"The lip dubbers tell me they'll be walking 
around town and be stopped by someone who says, 'Oh, you're from the video,' " 
said Brenda Chavez, one of the five students who coordinated the 
video.

Alaina Mullin said she got the idea for the lip 
dub from a similar video her sister was shown last summer.

"We never really thought it would happen," she 
said.

But when she and Caitlyn Faircloth were 
brainstorming activities for the school's annual Arts Fest, they decided to 
recruit some friends and start planning so they could make a pitch to Principal 
Bob Celebrezze.

"We didn't want to present the idea to Bob 
without knowing exactly what we were going to be doing," said Chavez, the 
group's public relations officer.

They had no problem getting Celebrezze on 
board.

"This was a very, very positive event for Moscow 
High School students," Celebrezze said, adding that he has received only 
positive feedback from parents, community members and others who have watched 
the video. He also said he's spoken with principals in other cities who said 
they are "jealous of the great school we have here."

The five students who organized and filmed the 
video - Mullin, Chavez, Faircloth, Skyler Martin and Sebastian Mortimer - tried 
to prominently feature students from each MHS club and sport, but they said the 
school has so many extracurricular activities that some groups are represented 
in background shots.

They said they picked the song "Pump It" because 
it plays at just about every school dance, so it's familiar to most students, 
and the lyrics aren't filled with potentially inappropriate 
innuendo.

"It's a fun song that has a lot of different 
parts in it," said Mortimer, the project's "creative 
mastermind."

The students decorated the school's hallways and 
practiced the lip dub on the weekend and after school, and on the official 
filming day, they only rehearsed one time before shooting the final version. 
Students were released from class early that day so they could all participate 
if they desired.

"We offered it as an optional piece to everyone 
in the school," Celebrezze said. "Only 10 students asked to not be involved. I 
think that says a lot about Moscow High School."

Mortimer said it was challenging to place 
students in their spots and direct them to walk at a certain, consistent speed 
during each practice run and the official take.

"We filmed most of the practices just so we knew 
what it would look like," said Martin, the group's videographer. The final video 
features a blooper reel after the lip dub performance and 
credits.

Although any project involving hundreds of 
people is bound to have its occasional hiccups, the students said they were 
happy with the result and that it felt good to prove naysayers wrong. Students 
of different backgrounds and ages worked together on the video, even though many 
of them didn't yet know each other.

"I feel like we kind of united the school for at 
least one day," Chavez said.

Faircloth said the students are thankful to 
their peers and the MHS staff for supporting them throughout the 
project.

"It honestly wouldn't have worked if people 
weren't excited," she said. "It made spring of senior year a lot better. Now I 
feel more sentimental toward the school."

The students said they hope future classes of 
MHS students will create their own lip dub videos as a new school 
tradition.

A Windows Media Video file of the MHS lip dub 
can be downloaded at this shortened link: http://goo.gl/fkpgn. A lower-resolution version of the video can also be 
viewed on YouTube by searching for "Moscow High Pride Lip Dub 
2012."

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