Unlike me, my little sister attends a local middle school near our house. Her teacher wanted to create an outside-of-class service project with the help of her students and their families, asking everyone to choreograph and film our own dances to a section of a song. The song is a Chinese song thanking frontline workers for their service during the pandemic.

Our family worked together to choreograph a 4 eight-count dance. This process actually took longer than anticipated; it took a lot of trial and error to come up with cohesive dance moves.

After establishing the choreography, we began to rehearse. The rehearsing included setting up the camera and our positions. The location of our video was the front of my parents’ clinic. There was not a lot of room for the camera to be set up on the floor, so it had to be standing on the couch. The couch was lopsided, which presented many problems throughout filming. This problem was addressed by placing a wooden stool upside-down so that there would be a sturdier surface for the tripod to stand on.

Lastly, having our video clip filmed, the last step is to make the video! I taught my sister how to cut out the excess beginning and end, rotate the video until it is not tilted, and add the background music. I was surprised how she was able to pick up these skills quickly. So, to enhance the video further, we drew a graphic that said, “Go Taiwan!” in Chinese.

Here was the final video with all of my sister’s classmates and family members! (We are at 1:56 and 4:58)