Yesterday I had the honor and privilege of being surrounded by the beautiful, soaring tones of original music for organ and oboe composed by Deborah L. Carr and played by Deborah on the organ and Melinda McKenzie on the Oboe. Magnificent!
Selections from this piece will be used to create mood with background music in the Yucatan Travel Movie.
I had previously recorded this piece played by them on piano and oboe. However, the depth and power of the organ moved me to tears. I learned that the organ is the most powerful musical instrument, even more powerful than the power of a rock band. After my experience yesterday, I believe it!
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I can hardly wait to get started on the “Bloopers” for the Yucatan Travel Movie. As I put together the footage for the actual movie, I earmarked various blooper scenes. Should be fun!
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It’s done! I have completed the first draft of the Yucatan Travel Movie: Cancun to Coba.
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For many people, the archological site of Tulum, Mexico, is a beach destination. Even through there are no facilities for changing in and out of a bathing suit, many people come to Tulum to experience the beautiful beach and azure-blue water rather than to explore the ruins. Today, I chose the background music and put together the Tulum beach scenes in the Yucatan Travel Video.
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Although I had been to Tulum, Mexico, a number of times before, it was only on the last visit that I realized there were images of Itzamna, the ancient Maya’s toothless Creator God, at the archeological site. In fact, there are two images of Itzamna on two corners of the House of the Frescoes or Murals. Today, I incorporated these images of Itzamna into the Yucatan Travel Movie.
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Today, I continue editing the Tulum section of the Yucatan Travel Movie. It is a delight because the footage on Tulum is infused with gorgeous palm-swaying seascapes among the ancient Mayan ruins as well as images of the ancient Maya’s mythological gods Izamna and the Dios Descendante, the Descending God.
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I think I might have overdone the number of cutaways to gorgeous Tulum seascapes . . . but, there are so many fantastic photographic images from this beautiful archeological site in Quintana Roo, Mexico, along the Mayan Riviera, I am finding it difficult to limit the number I use. These are the kinds of problems I love while editing the Yucatan Travel Movie.
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Tulum is one of the most beautiful archeological sites in the Yucatan Peninsula. Surrounded by rustling palm trees and perched on a cliff overlooking the turquoise Caribbean Sea, the section on Tulum in the Yucatan Travel Movie needed a poignant heartful musical accompaniement and I am happy to have found it in one of the Sony Creative Software Cinescore selections.
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Tulum is such a gorgeous archeological zone. The aqua waters of the Caribbean glisten with sunlight at the foot of El Castillo. I felt mesmerized with the dynamic video footage as I started the editing process today on this wonderful Yucatan location in the Yucatan Travel Movie.
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Well, this time I really have completed the section of the Yucatan Travel Video on Cozumel Island. I put the finishing touches on the car ferry ride back to the mainland, again, enjoying the wonderful guitar music and singing of Tom Petrachenko rendering his own composition, All These Ghosts. As for the video footage of this part of the video, I especially love the little chihuahua dressed in a pink gingham dress who took that ferry ride with us.
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