Pierre Dragicevic Gift Preparation Page

Jean-Daniel Fekete, June 1st 2021, Jean-Daniel.Fekete@inria.fr

We will offer a music video to Pierre where all the Aviz members, alumni, colleagues, and friends will appear.

The song chosen is a cover from We Care a Lot from the US Band Faith No More. Originally, it was a sarcastic song but the words are changed to become a celebration song.

We Care a Lot

There are multiple options for appearing:

  1. Act as if you sing
  2. Sing (sing the background vocals, [part of] a verse, chorus)
  3. Act as if you played an instrument
  4. Play an instrument

The video will be loosely inspired by a lockdown cover:

Lockdown Cover

How to submit?

Download the song, the cover will be edited exactly on this version. Additionally, a multi-track version is available . It can be played with Audacity. If you want to play an instrument over it, I have also Guitar Pro scores, accurate for guitars and bass but not for synth.

Recording specification

  • The video clips should be encoded as a .mp4, format MPEG-4, using H.264 encoding, Resolution: 1920 x 1080 pixels, 30 frames/sec.
  • The audio clips should be encoded in a standard good quality format, mp3 or wave, at 44kHz or 48kHz, mono or stereo.

Submission

  • Upload the clips somewhere on the web, Google Drive, Dropbox, your home page, and send Jean-Daniel Fekete the URL(s).
  • When you prepare files to download, please, use this pattern LASTNAME-PARTNAME[-#][-SMPTE].EXTENSION

For example, fekete-wecarealot-1.mp3 for the audio recording of the "We Care a Lot" part, or fekete-guitar.mp4 for the video of me playing guitar.

  • I want to collect audio and video files by June 15th22nd to have enough time to edit the full video before the end of June.

What can YOU contribute?

1. [Video clip] Act as if you sing

  1. Record one or multiple video snippet clips where you (with friends, family, pets) sing the background vocals We Care a Lot, the audio will be discarded, try to lipsync (not critical)

2. [Audio clip] Sing (sing the background vocals, [part of] a verse, chorus)

We ask you to record your voices and send the audio clip. There are many options as listed below.

  1. Record one or multiple audio clips where you (with friends, family, no pets) sing the background vocals "We Care a Lot". Listen to the music with headphones so it is not recorded. For example: We Care A Lot
  2. Sing the background vocals: The song contains a series of background vocals singing "Oh oh oh oh oh" that you can also record. Feel free to record the video only, audio only, or both. name if with your name followed by -ohohohohoh, e.g. fekete--ohohohohoh-1.mp3
  3. Sing [part of] a verse: If you want to sing a verse or a part of it, you'll have to wait until we finish the lyrics but don't hesitate to volunteer by sending me an email.
  4. Sing a chorus: Record yourself singing along with the song "It's an amazing work and someone's gotta say it", once or multiple times. Put the file on the internet with your name followed by -chorus, e.g. fekete-chorus-1.mp3 and fekete-chorus-2.ogg.

3. [Video clip] Act as if you played an instrument

  1. Record one or multiple video clips where you (with friends, family) play or act as playing an instrument. The audio will be discarded. try to stay in sync (not critical)

4. [Audio clip] Play an instrument

If you feel like it, synchronize with me so I prepare your track to be mixed in.

  1. Record one or multiple audio clips where you (with friends, family, no pets) play an instrument. Listen to the music with headphones so it is not recorded, and use the multitrack MOGG file to make sure your recording matches. Either record from the start all the song, or encode the time-code where your clip starts as a SMPTE timecode, e.g.: fekete-guitar-03:10:20.mp3 or fekete-guitar-2.mp3.