Thursday, December 18, 2014

LDS Youth Theme and Video

A few weeks ago Heather participated in some filming for the 2015 LDS Youth theme, "Embark." For anyone who doesn't know, the LDS church has chosen a theme for the youth each year, and they create a video using original music submitted to the project.  The film crews go all over the world to include youth from all backgrounds and locations making the videos relative to any youth anywhere in the world who sees it. The videos and music have been amazing. Our favorite featured my friend's son singing on a cliff near the beach in 2010 for the, "Be Strong and of Good Courage," theme.

Anyway, the church requested youth from the Huntington Beach area to participate this year.  So exciting! The scene we were asked to film was at a skate park in Costa Mesa. Heather was still having headaches, but this was such a fun opportunity that we drove her over.  Heather was a trooper and became one of the background park goers for the skateboard segment of the video.  The background knew that if they weren't seen in the final video, at least they helped make it.  How exciting to participate in the making of a video that will been seen around the world!

News came later that one of the other segments in the video had been cut, and many of the background cast from the skateboarding scene were invited to film a new segment to replace the other one.  Once again Heather ignored her headache, and we drove her to the filming.  She cheerfully participated knowing that she may never be on camera in the final product.  She had fun being with girlfriends in the stake and doing what she was asked to do for the filming.

When we saw the final cut of the video, we were amazed to see our cute girl in a couple of the beginning scenes. We've had friends out of state contact us and say, "Is that Heather we saw in the Youth video?!"  She's a bit of a celeb now.  Haha.  The service clip they filmed that day became a focal point for the beginning of the video.

We have come to love the original song chosen to go with the theme, and it is amazing to watch over and over and see so many youth that we love in the beginning scenes. This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and we're so happy Heather could participate in this project.

You can watch the video HERE.

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