This is the short film I made for the Minifilm Challenge. I shot it with the kids I Nanny, on a Monday right when I arrived. It is a realistic fictional story, based on true everyday events. I took the footage home, cut it together, and then recorded all the sounds you hear after the fact, including four layers of ambient sound (room noise). These sound effects are called Foley. So this is a Foley Study. And a little window into my world. Enjoy.
Then Pa began again to play the song about Old Grimes. But he did not sing the words he had sung when Ma was making cheese. These words were different. Pa's strong, sweet voice was softly singing:
"Shall auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Shall auld acquaintance be forgot,
And the days of auld lang syne?
And the days of auld lang syne, my friend,
And the days of auld lang syne,
Shall auld acquaintance be forgot,
And the days of auld lang syne?"
When the fiddle had stopped singing Laura called out softly, "What are the days of auld lang syne, Pa?"
"They are the days of a long time ago, Laura," Pa said. "Go to sleep, now."
But Laura lay awake a little while, listening to Pa's fiddle softly playing and to the lonely sound of the wind in the Big Woods. She looked at Pa sitting on the bench by the hearth, the firelight gleaming on his brown hair and beard and glistening on the honey-brown fiddle. She looked at Ma, gently rocking and knitting.
She thought to herself, "This is now."
She was glad that the cozy house, and Pa and Ma and the firelight and the music, were now. They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now. It can never be a long time ago.
Hark!
The herald
Angels sing
Glory to
The newborn
King
Peace on Earth
And mercy
Mild
God and sinners
Reconciled
