For the movie trailer mashup I was supposed to take a movie trailer and change the audio to put a new spin on it. I overlayed Al Green’s Lets Stay Together over the movie trailer for Obsessed using Windows Movie Maker. I wanted to give the movie more of a love story vibe instead of creepy stalker vibe that was its original intent.

4 stars

A mash-up of movies, for this assignment we were to take 2 movie trailers and use the audio from one and the video from another to create a new a different story or feel.

For this assignment I took two movies which I look forward to seeing, The Great Gatsby and The Collection. It was actually quite a simple process, these two trailers where particularly well suited for each other because both started with a sort of club type party intro which now go horribly wrong as the Great Gatsby has killed his party goer and takes a girl hostage to be his love slave. as one man who has escaped Gatsby’s clutches goes in search of Mr. Gatsby to get her back.

I actaully did this assignment twice with the same trailers but switching which was video and which was audio, The Collection video one kept the same dark feel to it which was unacceptable which is why I decided to do the other orientation. Diffidently gave The Great Gatsby, which is Romance movie, a much darker and twisted interpretation.

Movie Trailer Mashup:

Worth 4 stars:

I mashed together the Brave trailer with the Harry Potter theme music. At first, I was going to use the Pirates of the Caribbean theme song but I think Potter works much better.

I downloaded the Brave trailer from youtube with iLivid and imported it into premiere. Then I muted the track Audio 1 so there was no sound coming from the actual trailer. Once I did that, I imported the Potter theme music. Yes, I already had it. I put the mp3 on track Audio 2 and used the razor tool to cut out what I didn’t need. I tried to make it go pretty closely together with Brave. Both movies are kind of magical too. Then I exported it as an mp4 and just let youtube have it (and probably report me for copyright infringement. oh well, bring it).

I really love the movie Brave and HP has got to be my favorite wizard movie of all time! (I say wizard movie because I always liked Neville wayyyy more than Harry. I even thought I was a really good Hermione look alike for a while). I tried really hard with this assignment. I wanted to make it so that I could match it up with different dialogue, but nothing else seemed like it would work.

During this weeks Remix segment, we were asked to complete 7 stars worth of Mashup Assignments. The first assignment that I decided to do for this segment was to create a Movie Trailer Mashup. This assignment asked to take a movie trailer and have the audio be completely opposite of what the movie actually represents. For this assignment I decided to take the movie trailer of one of my favorite movies “Bridesmaids” and make the audio of the trailer sound as if it’s a scary, when in reality it’s one of the funniest movies I’ve seen. The audio trailer that I used was of the movie “The Apparition“. The reason I used this movie was because I thought that the audio course of events sounded like it would go really well with that of the Bridesmaid trailer. I downloaded both movie trailers onto my computer using www.keepvid.com then I uploaded Bridesmaid’s into my iMovie, but took the Apparition trailer and uploaded it into audacity in order to get the audio. I then combined both the trailer (muted) and the audio in order to produce a scary version of the Bridesmaid trailer and make my own Remix. This assignment was very interesting to do simply because I have already seen the bridesmaid and I know that it’s not a scary movie….. when I added the scary sound to the trailer it made it a lot more interesting. I felt like I was getting ready to watch an entirely different movie. I was also surprised to see how well this specific audio fit into the movie trailer, I didn’t expect them to go so well hand in hand. This Mashup Assignment was worth 4 stars. I can officially say  that I’ve made my own remix!!! It’s awesome to see how easy it can be to combine different forms of media in order to produce a new product that no one else has ever done.

Bridesmaids Trailer Remix:  

 

Total= 4/7 Stars!

Movie Trailer Mashup

Take your favorite movie trailer and mash it up with a different trailer to completely change the meaning of the original trailer. For example, if you have a funny movie trailer, give it the sound of a terrifying movie; or vice versa. You may need to clip the audio or the visual, use imovie and audacity to cut the clips to give you what you need. Good luck!

This is a 4 star assignment

Before starting this assignment I reviewed two other examples that helped me get an example of what I needed to do.

Toy Story 3 Horror Recut Trailer: I am reviewing this because I love all the Toy Story movies.  I really liked this mash-up for the movie.  The music and the editing of the clips made it seem like this movie would be really scary.  Though this trailer was really good it reminded me more of the assignment Return to the Silent Era.

A Different Interpretation: I decided to review this assignment because I love all the Harry Potter movies.  I really liked how this mash up included two different Harry Potter films.  I like how one of them was used just for the music and background of the movie, and one for the actual video part of the movie trailer.  Though not everything went well together with what was happening in the movie, I liked how there was a mash-up of two films from the same series.  It was a very creative idea.

After reviewing these two examples and a few of the other ones I found under the assignment, I decided to make a mash up of the movie Up and the movie the Avengers.  I thought that these two movie choices were very different and I think that is what a mash up is supposed to be.  Combing two very different genres of movies to make it look like one.  I decided to keep the movie trailer for the movie Up and use the background music from the Avengers.  I first found the movie trailer for Up on YouTube and downloaded it to my computer using PwnYouTube.  After that I then found the movie trailer for The Avengers and converted it to an MP3 file using Pwn YouTube.  To convert the file to MP3 using PwnYouTube I clicked on the link that said share/mp3/convert.  I then followed the instructions that were given to convert my video file into an MP3 file.  Afterwards I then opened up Window’s Movie Maker and added the Up movie trailer and the Avengers sound.  Though not everything matches up with what is happening in the movie trailer I think these two trailers mashed-up go well together.  This mash-up gives the movie Up a new meaning, making it seem like there’s more action and adventure to the movie.

Below is my embedded YouTube video: