Mount St. Mary shows holiday spirit, school unity

Video project brings together entire staff, student body and faculty for filming

Published: January 26, 2014

Ella Thomas gives instructions prior to shooting. The backwards-worn backpack was an innovation the film crew came up with to provide a more stable means of holding the video camera.

Ella Thomas gives instructions prior to shooting. The backwards-worn backpack was an innovation the film crew came up with to provide a more stable means of holding the video camera.

Mount St. Mary Academy senior Ella Thomas directs a student group during the video shoot of the all-school “lip dub” created as a project for the school’s International Baccalaureate program.

The “lip dub” to Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas is You” made many appearances on Facebook in December.

The video was filmed during a 90-minute class period Dec. 3, undertaken by Thomas as her Information Technology in a Global Society class project. Collaborating on the project were International Baccalaureate theater instructor Jenny Moses as director; Carrie Burkhead as multimedia instructor; and the entire faculty and student body, which included 29 school clubs and organizations.

Thomas’ project involved working with a client to achieve a finished video, mixing audio for the Concert Belles choral ensemble and arranging seamless video footage.

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