Assignment #3: Making videos and listening to Doral Pilling's voice

One of the summer's highlights has been taking a Video Editing Course.  Six weeks  to learn all about working with Adobe Premiere Pro.  It turned out to be harder than I expected, but also very interesting.  

The third assignment was to create a 3 minute video making use of interview footage.  I decided to make it meaningful for me, taking up some of the questions emerging in my business associations class about the way that stories of 'family' and 'business' intersect.   

I knew that I had footage from several years back where Arta had talked with me about my grandfather Doral Pilling's business experience, and I also knew that I had audio files of Doral reading from his own autobiography.  Below is a link to the 3 minute video I put together for the class, using both Arta's and Doral's voices!  

https://youtu.be/1881uDAcWZc

AN ASIDE:

It was such a treat to spend time listening to Doral's voice on the audio files as I was putting this video together.   How did I get those audio files, you ask?   Well, here is a link to a post back in 2014 where I first reported on getting access to those files: 

•  https://larchhaven.blogspot.com/2014/08/doral-pilling-let-me-know-if-you-want.html

I thought others might also want to access the files.   So.... here are links you an follow to listen to Doral reading from his memoire in his own voice.   I have tried to indicate roughly how the audio files relate to the print copy of granddad's memoire that I think most families have a copy of.  It is not a perfect match.  That is, sometimes the audio and text version diverge.   But it it pretty close.

I hope you enjoy listening to granddad's voice as much as I did.

LINKS TO THE AUDIO FILES:

Doral Pilling 1/10 (pp. 1-14) Stories of Richard and Catherine

Doral Pilling 2/10 (pp. 14-38). Doral as a child; Stories of Frank and Val

Doral Pilling 3/10 (pp 38-56) Olympics

Doral Pilling 4/10 (pp. 56-76). Moose Dome continued

Doral Pilling 5/10 (pp. 76-98). Taking Wyora to a dance

Doral Pilling 6/10 (pp. 98-128) an honest man in oil industry; starts to read "The Blue Flame"

Doral Pilling 7/10 (pp. 128-153). letter to Tanner, injustice of oil consolidation

Doral Pilling 8/10 (153-176). importance of his faith to him

Doral Pilling 9/10 (p 176ff). letters to Minister of Highways after children die in car crash

Doral Pilling 10/10 (pp. 184a-202). working on roof; lorne and vernetta; driving out to lake