Patrick
Patrick sits at a home recording studio, speaking into a microphone.
Patrick: This is the station to rock you, shock you, move you, and groove you 24 hours a day, seven days a week. My name is Patrick Lafayette. Don't you ever forget. It's ChrisMix Radio, Patrick with you.
[Reggae music playing]
Patrick tunes a guitar as titles appear: Like a Volcano, featuring Patrick Lafayette.
Patrick sits at an open MacBook Pro.
Patrick narrating: To do something for yourself...
VoiceOver: VoiceOver on Logic Pro X.
Patrick narrating: ...is one of the greatest things you could ever do.
VoiceOver: Record. Menu, 10 items. Count in. Submenu. Metronome setting. Checkmark. Allow quick punch in. Checkmark.
Patrick navigates a Logic recording session.
Patrick narrating: Now, I can express myself.
He rinses peeled shrimp under a faucet. He holds up an iPhone running the Tap Tap See app.
VoiceOver: Camera. Picture two in progress.
Patrick: There you go.
VoiceOver: Picture one is citrus-printed plastic bottle.
Patrick narrating: It's a big thing when you're a father and you want to participate.
Patrick digs through his spice cabinet.
VoiceOver: Picture three is garlic powder.
[Patrick laughs]
VoiceOver: Picture three is person holding white onions.
Patrick’s family enters the kitchen.
Girl: Hi, Daddy.
Patrick: What's up, baby?
The family serves themselves shrimp and rice and sit down to eat together.
Patrick narrating: Not just make food, but make excellent food, where I see my wife take her shoes off and say, "Give me some more!” [Patrick laughs]
And my kids lick their chops. They say, “Daddy, that was great."
[All laughing]
Patrick narrating: I have so much that I've always wanted to express. I'm like a volcano. I'm like Pelée or Mount Etna.
Patrick is back at his laptop, working in Logic Pro X.
VoiceOver: Arm the track for recording.
Patrick narrating: I'm about ready to erupt!
Wearing headphones, Patrick dances to a Logic session as titles appear.
[Patrick laughs]
Titles: Designed for Patrick L. Designed for everyone.
A white Apple logo against a black background.
Shane
[Students chattering]
Shane in a school hallway.
Shane: Go to class.
A student gives her a hug.
Shane: Good morning, Asia.
She greets two girls. Students in a band room.
Shane: Get your instruments, have a seat.
[Instruments warming up]
A student holds a tuba. Others play a flute and a clarinet.
Shane: Now, are you going to be able to play today or what?
A student hits a snare drum.
Shane: All right, guys. Ready to try it?
Shane stands on a podium.
Shane: Let’s try it. Clarinets, you're up!
[Clarinets play quietly]
An iPhone is synced to "Shane Hearing Aids.” Shane adjusts her hair, revealing a hearing device. She changes the preset from Normal to Music.
[Volume increases]
Shane: Clarinets, ready?
[Clarinets play]
Shane turns up the "Hearing Device Mic Volume" on her iPhone.
[Volume increases]
She holds a conductor's baton and sweeps her arms upward.
Shane: Breathe.
[Music playing]
- Titles: Crescendo featuring Shane Rakowski.
- Shane conducts the band, moving her arms in broad, sweeping gestures. Trophies line a shelf behind her.
Shane narrating: I love seeing the "I got it" face. When they understand and get something, you can actually see it in their faces. And that encourages me to do more.
[Music playing]
A girl plays a flute. Shane sweeps her arms downward and makes two fists, mid-air.
Shane: Clean music joke. Howard, go!
Shane narrating: We tend to joke around in the classroom. I think that’s part of teaching. Let them see that you're human.
Student: Take notes!
Shane: I said a joke, not two words. Sit down.
Student: No, it's a joke!
The boy smiles and waves his hand. Shane plays a clarinet.
Shane: That was not the best, was it?
Shane narrating: For homework, the students record themselves playing.
A girl with a clarinet shuts a door.
[Clarinet playing]
She uses an iPad to record herself playing.
Shane narrating: I can stream the music from the iPad into my hearing aids and actually it sounds like they're right next to me. So I can grade it right then and there.
Shane uses an iPad.
[Instruments playing]
She teaches students in the band room.
Shane narrating: Band is a family. Once you walk in these doors, it doesn't matter where you come from, you're accepted.
Shane: Crescendo!
[Instruments playing]
Titles: Designed for Shane R. Designed for everyone.
Shane: Half notes. Crescendo! And that'll be a dramatic pause there. One.
[Instruments playing]
A white Apple logo against a black background.
Shane: One.
[Music playing]
Meera
[Laughter]
A family peers into a photo album.
Woman: Oh, look! Yes.
Meera: Yeah, yeah.
Text is entered into an iPad.
Digital Voice from iPad: Remember when Mama taught me to cook a casserole?
Woman: Oh, gosh!
Meera: Yeah.
[Laughter]
[Music playing]
Now, a soccer match starts as titles appear: Girl Talk, featuring Meera P.
Digital Voice narrating: Before, people talked about me, not to me.
Meera controls the ball with her feet.
Digital Voice narrating: People now know I have a lot to say.
Meera takes a shot.
Meera scores and a teammate congratulates her.
[Girls cheering]
Now, she sits with teammates and an iPad.
Girl: Where's another place you've been?
Meera taps her answer on the iPad.
Digital Voice: Alaska.
Girl: Wow.
[Cheering]
Girls: Go, Violet!
Girl: We have a good team this year.
Digital Voice: They are awesome.
Now, the family eats in a restaurant. Meera taps on her iPad.
Digital Voice: I would like to order sweet tea, chips.
The food arrives and Meera digs in.
Woman: You've got to stay fresh, right? [Laughs]
Digital Voice: Why did the cow cross the road?
Woman: Why did the — Why did the cow cross the road? I don't know!
Digital Voice: To get to the moo-vies.
Woman: [Laughs] Oh!
Meera points and laughs.
Titles: Designed for Meera P. Designed for everyone.
A white Apple logo against a black background.