Story of the Day 2/ 3 / 2012

Story of the Day 2/ 3/ 2012 is really a kind of addendum to Stories of the Day 1/ 8, 1/9 and 1/15. That is because Sarah is enrolled in a filmmaking and animation class, and making YoMama - while not for the class- was not the only video she has to make , this semester.


So, Sarah's newest video, the one with the Legos, is finished.
We survived separating and sorting thousands and thousands of Legos.
We survived techinical non-support, I mean support and we survived the music.
Music?
Well, Sarah had edited her video, and then she said to me, "I need some music or Hearing people will be bored watching it."
Since Hearing people describes her teachers and all of her fellow students in the film class, music is probably a good idea.
A few minutes later Sarah asked me to listen to a sound track she found on the internet.
Sarah likes humming.
She cannot hear music, but she likes humming and pretending she can hum, because she knows that she can make that "mmmm-mmmm-hmmm-mmmm" vibration in her throat, just like Hearing people. You know, the vibration called humming that is...music.
So Sarah has located some humming. A sound track of it.
I listen to it.
Something is wrong.

I tell her it won't work.
She clicks on another soundtrack of humming and plays it for me.
I realize what the problem is.
"Sarah, that is machine humming, like a refrigerator or a truck idling."
Sarah is surprised.
Who knew there were so many kinds of humming.
Well, she does know that there is more than one meaning to the word, humming, but how can she find what she wants?
She tries to think of another word that would describe what she wants.
Melody.
She types "melody" into the search engine.

A long list of possible sounds comes up.
She immediately focuses in on one of them.
"I want that one!"

"Um, Sarah, I am not sure harp music is exactly what you want for your video......" I hate to be a wet blanket, but.....harp music?

"Yes it is. I love harp music!"
"Sarah, you have never heard any harp music, or any music at all. Why do you say you love harp music?"

"Because they used it in Harry Potter to put the dog to sleep."

How can I argue with this logic.
So, now Sarah's film has harp music for the background.

And , you know what? It works.