Lift Off for Foxborough Students’ Lib Dub Video Project

Foxborough High School students, led by senior Virag Vora, have been working on a school-wide Lip Dub video as this year’s student video project since February and spent Wednesday wrapping up the project’s final scene Wednesday in dramatic fashion.

“They wanted their ending to be dramatic, in which their camera is lifted from the ground ad swoops up into the sky,” said Foxborough Superintendent of Schools Debra Spinelli.

To get the dramatic – and creative shot – Spinelli enlisted the assistance of Blue Hills Helicopter Company out of Norwood, which “graciously donated” a helicopter to help shoot the final scene.

The helicopter landed on the baseball field of Foxborough High School just before 1 p.m. Wednesday and Vora directed the final sequence to the pilot and videographer Mike Webber of Foxboro Cable Access, who has been assisting in the project.

The dramatic shot started with Webber aboard the helicopter with the camera high above the high school fields filming the Foxborough High School senior class spelling out “2013” before releasing blue and gold streamers into the air.

“Really, really creative,” said Spinelli. “When they said they wanted a helicopter I said, ‘I will find you a helicopter. … It’s awesome. Simply fabulous.”

Vora and Webber said the final scene was a success and the FHS senior is eager to begin editing Wednesday’s footage.

“We are hoping to finish the project this week and are hoping to have a viewing of it at Class Night in June,” said Vora.

The video will also be published on YouTube and possibly on Foxboro Cable Access.

Vora said the whole high school was involved in the project in “some way, shape or form.

“Whether it be an indoor segment or this senior class segment we just had outside and everyone in between,” said Vora. “We even had elementary school students here. At least 1,000 people have been in on this project.”

Watch the video and view the photo gallery above for more on Wednesday’s dramatically creative scene.