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February 15, 2010 A Proud Day for Canada!Filed under: ASI Canada While we don’t need new reasons to be proud Canadians, the Olympic Opening Ceremony I think has certainly opened the eyes of the world to our diverse culture and rich history. Opening the ceremonies with the traditional welcome pole of the 1st Nations was inspiring and showed the world our country’s respect to our founding people. The opening was beautiful visually I loved the section with the fiddlers and then when the whales were crossing the stadium – WOW! As Canada entered the stadium emotions overflowed from the stadium right across our great country and to our military serving overseas we all joined together as one, proudly showing the world what a great country Canada is. I loved listening to Donald Sutherland’s voice as he introduced each new section of the presentations – I have always enjoyed listening to his deep, penetrating voice and he was a great choice. I think one of the highlights for me was Shane Koyczan’s poem “We are More” it’s always been tough to define us as a country and his poem was great at pointing out our uniqueness as a country. We Canadians also have a great sense of humour and I’m sorry, but it was funny to look at the face of Steve Nash and the other athletes as they waited for the cauldrons to come up, I can just imagine what they were thinking – Steve Nash was the funniest though! Even with the little mistakes (Bryan & Nelly lip singing was pretty bad) we did a great job of introducing our great country to the world! GO CANADA GO! 2 CommentsLeave a Comment |
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You can take this a step further. Take a photo of the crowd from osagnte. Have each person write their name and where they were sitting (seat and row or third table from the back, etc.) Write a song for the people who came. Include their names in the song. Video yourself performing the song and have the photo of the crowd as part of the video. Edit the video so that every time you mention a name in the crowd, have text on the video and an arrow or some sort of pointer point the person out in the photo. People enjoy being thanked personally and to be part of the show. Cut back and forth to your band performing the song in the video. It doesn’t have to be perfect. You could just be sitting around casually. Or if you are more inclined, you could get a little fancy with video shoot. Make sure to intro the song with a thank you for being our fans and we appreciate you. You could use the same song for each performance and just change the names and edit the video with the new photo and names. People enjoy seeing their name in lights and to be recognized. They will share the video with all of their friends and hopefully through networking this way we will gain a lot of new fans and reach a whole new audience. I am going to try this at one of our upcoming performances to see how many facebook, myspace and email signups we get.
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