Creative Performance on the iPad

I'm lucky that I have two passions. Teaching and educating is one and performance and singing is another. I love to combine the two. During lockdown, I had the opportunity to really explore the capabilities of using the Mac and iPad to create exciting performances on my own. My idea was to create a Memoji choir and perform different songs acapella style. The Pothy Choir was born.

The first thing I needed was an app that could make this simple. I found the Acapella App (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/acapella-from-picplaypost/id924635678). This basically allowed me to record multiple video tracks over the top of each other, therefore creating a multi video acapella recording. So this was my initial recording: https://mixcord.co/acapella/p/whl5Bdkh7FaCdlHW_EaiIg/

I recorded each track in front of a green screen. This way I knew I could remove the background with future editing.

I wanted to go one step further. So I used clips to record each track with a different animal Memoji. Again, recorded this with a green screen and played each original track back and lip synced onto Clips. I save each Memoji clip separately and imported them into my Mac where I then used Final Cut Pro to edit these Clips. The end result is below: 

I ran a webinar during the festival of learning in 2020 on how to do this. You can watch this by click this link - https://youtu.be/etm5UVuEc2I

Jump to January 2023. I wanted to resurrect the Pothy Choir as when I created this in lockdown, it gave me a real sense of joy and achievement. So recently I started to create further tracks. I have explored different ways of editing the videos using iMovie and for more control, Camtasia. I have also explored using social media to showcase the recording using Tiktok and Instagram. Please take a look below at the most recent recordings.

The Pothy Choir presents the Wellerman

The Pothy Choir presents One Day More from Les Miserables 

For other music videos please take a look here : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD6lc2e8uYooKxUaDIov9MyPYjSBB_gJ7

Enjoy and thanks for reading. Contact me to find out more.

Richard