The Difference a Year Makes

When we first realized we were pregnant with Townshend, we were super excited! Then, we had to wait nine months before meeting him. Those long months gave us ample time for plotting and planning. We picked names, visited doctors, painted the bedroom.. and somewhere in there I decided it would be really awesome to make a video of the first year of his life. People are always posting little snippets of their babies online, and I thought, how better to showcase those snippets than by stringing them together into one movie!

Sounds good on paper, but OH what a long project it was! Happily, knowing that movie making takes a while anyway, I kept up with it throughout the year; finishing the previous month before the end of the current month, so that by October, all I really needed was a couple clips and the birthday party. That definitely made the whole thing a little less bonkers at the end. 

Then, of course, there was the soundtrack to consider. I'd selected Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 early on as the main soundtrack for the video (hooray for it being in the public domain). But I had a terrible time picking the music for the birthday party.. Happily, I have a crackerjack music consultant with a ginormous music library who lives with me. I did a little research on my own, but couldn't come up with a song that was quite what I was looking for. So, I asked Hubby for some help. I gave him a nicely vague outline of the perfect song : something instrumental, solo - preferably piano, lively and fun but not pretentious, and it's pauses and breath points shouldn't distract from the visual... 

And, BOOM! he pulled out a CD of Chopin for me. Perfect!

Here is the final result of our collective efforts and activities over the last year: Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes condensed into 19mins and 34secs