My Very First Final Cut Pro Project PREMIERED on YouTube!

For months now I've been watching Fox 11 News @ 10 with Carlos Amezcua and Christine Devine. They're now my favorite news team. I think it was only a short 2 or 3 months ago when I found out that their weather guy Mark Thompson dances while reporting weather on Fox News @ 11 on their sister station KCOP 13. Since then, I've been hooked on watching Mark dance - he is just too funny! Not only does he dance while giving the weather report, sometimes he says the funniest things that cannot be said/heard on the "regular" news. Perhaps it's "late-night"?!

Anyway, so a few weeks ago I came up with the idea of compiling clips of him dancing and posting on my YouTube Channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/iliketosingalot). I thought it would be funny. Then days later I came up with another idea: dance WITH him in the clip!

So I filmed using my digital camera for about 2 weeks so I'd have more footage to work with. Coincidentally my husband needed to get a green screen for his film project, so I used the green screen as my backdrop while "dancing with Mark".

I've never used Final Cut Pro (FCP) before - only iMovie - and my husband told me it would be easier to put together the project with this app. I had to learn EVERYTHING the day I pieced everything together and was getting SERIOUSLY frustrated. It took me, no joke, about 12 hours to complete. As soon as I got it done, which was at almost 2 a.m., I tweeted the link to Mark Thompson (I follow him on Twitter & have exchanged a few words with him during the past few weeks, including asking him if he can start dancing @ 10 instead of @ 11!).

I made the video 'cuz I thought it would be funny and just wanted to show it to him, and perhaps also to his fellow Fox News Team. I was hoping he would share it with his family and friends so I'd get more hits on this video I made. Little did I know that he and Christine and Carlos would TALK ABOUT IT during their news segments! They even gave me a special shout-out! Mark also tweeted my video on his Twitter! I thought it was so cool and thought that having worked on it for 12 hours paid off!

Just to share with you the tweets I got from the Fox 11 News Team:
markthompsontv: "@kato808 luv on u girl!! We were all blown out by your riffin' on the Ch 13 11p newscast".
CarlosFoxTV: "@kato808 We ARE going to show your moves on our show!".
DevineNews: "@kato808 that is awesome."

As it was my first time using FCP and green screen, I know there are plenty of room for improvement, and that the video looks quite amateurish. Nevertheless, it is my first FCP project and it got special shout-out, so all's good! So, without further ado, check out my video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txn-Pm0Dp8o&feature=channel_page
Here is the special shout-out video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OELKYB4Rkx0&feature=channel_page

BTW, this morning when I checked on YouTube, when you type in "Rita dancing" under search, my video can be seen under the Featured Videos section on the right-hand side. How cool is that?!