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Trailer Mashup Tutorial

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This tutorial is for the Movie Trailer Mashup assignment.

You can see my blog post about my work here.

This is the video that I made using the same steps you can read about below.

Tutorial for Windows Movie Maker

1. Find your trailers! I would suggest finding “opposites.” So if you want to work with a romantic movie, find a horror or super raunchy trailer to contrast. If you want to work with a horror movie, find a comedy trailer.

2. Once you have your YouTube links, use something like PwnYouTube, Fastest YouTube Downloader, or KeepVid to download both videos. If your downloader of choice allows you to download just the audio of videos, then that may be a better option when downloading the trailer that you just want the audio from!

3. Open the trailer (“Add videos and photos” button) that you want to use as video in Windows Movie Maker. Once you have it on the timeline, click on “Add Music.”

4. Now, Windows Movie Maker will only show audio files in the popped-up window. If you have a video, though, you need to see .MP4 files, .FLV files, etc, too! So click on the bottom right hand corner that has a dropdown menu that says “Audio and Music.” Click “Audio and Video” or “Video” or “All” to see your video files. Click the file that you want to use as music and hit open!

5. Now that you have both files open (one should be video and below that should be the audio), you can drag and move the audio to line up with the video where you think it should.

6. Watch the clip back a few times and find places that you need to clip. You can do this in the Video Edit tab. Trimming is your friend!

7. Once you have a video you are proud of, you can save it for the web. Hit “File” –> “Save Movie.” Hover over the bottom button with a down arrow. This will scroll through the options you have to save. If you are uploading to YouTube (which I’d assume most people are), you should hit the YouTube settings button. Change the name to what you would like it to be.

8. Then upload it to YouTube! Tada!

Windows Movie Maker makes this very easy to do.

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Your Favorite Teams Mashup

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Submitted by: Dylan Gott

Combine the logos of two or more of your favorite sports teams. Don’t just create an image with the two logos next to each other! Make the final logo look natural and cohesive.

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Pop You, Popcorn!- Popcorn Mashup Assignment

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If we got to punch one ds106 assignment, I would definitely punch this one.

Before starting this project this afternoon, I went on Twitter and say some of my classmates were having problems with Popcorn. I wasn’t completely sure what the issues were (did they find it difficult to use? did they not understand the assignment?) But after a few minutes, I answered my own questions:

Popcorn just sucked. A lot.

Let me list the reasons why it sucked:

It didn’t have a user-friendly interface. At first, I thought it was because I didn’t understand the site; but even after watching the interactive tutorial, I knew it was just the stupid site. Whenever I tried to manually type in when to start and end effects, it wouldn’t apply. When I tried to move videos, it would play the video instead of just moving it. Maybe they need to hire some more programers to fix these dousys?
It had video playback issues. Oh lordy, lordy, lordy. This was probably one of the BIGGEST problems I encountered during this assignment. When I tried to play the clips, say, around a minute in, Popcorn would decide to play it somewhere else. Oh, and it would just play the original YouTube clip with no effects included. And the fun doesn’t stop there. When I tried to play the entire thing from the beginning, it wouldn’t play. It would just freeze up, and say that the plug-in crashed. Which leads me to my next issue…
It crashed so many times, I almost cried. And of course, the first three times, I didn’t know I could save it, so I had to start over three different times. It even crashed a couple more times after I tried using it on Mozilla Firefox! WTF! Why would a program crash on its own company’s browser? And it had all the same problems as I encountered on Chrome.

So in general, this entire assignment sucked for me. But I did it. Here’s my remix:

Hopefully it’ll play back for you, because it refused to play for me. The music I found was this really cool remix (so many remixes!)

Also, I hope Alan appreciates a little bit of humour, especially with the picture I chose for what he was going to bring on his lovely adventure. Hehe (:

So, I would love to hear if anyone else had issues with Popcorn. We can have a giant bitch fest and write an awful complaint to Mozilla. I mean, seriously? If you’re going to create something, get all the problems out in the beta form before releasing it to public! Sheesh!

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“Paralyze Me Out” (Vocal Instrumental Mashup ***)

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I swear I’m gonna be swimming in copyright strikes by the end of this course. This is a mashup of the 2 songs “Paralyzer” by Finger Eleven and “Take Me Out” by Franz Ferdinand. This was made for the Vocal Instrumental Mashup assignment where the task was to take the vocals of 1 song and mash them up with the instrumental of another song. For this, I had the vocals of Paralyzer sync with the background music of Take Me Out.

First I downloaded the instrumental of Take Me Out then the vocals of Paralyzer. To make this, I used Garageband to edit the 2 tracks to match one another. The hard part was trying to match up the beats of both songs so they’d sound well together. The reason I specifically picked these songs was because not only did they sound similar, but they had similar beats per minute (bpm.) The bpm of Paralyzer is between 128 and 135 while Take me out was 123. Because of this small difference, I had to chop up the Paralyzer vocals to make them fit within the 2/2 time signature (meaning 2 beats in every measure.) You can sort of hear these gaps in the song.

In the picture, the bottom track has the music part, while the top track is the chopped up vocals.

These 2 songs work so well together that you cant really tell it’s a mashup!

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Vocal Instrumental Mashup

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Submitted by: Amber May

For this assignment, you’re going to take the instrumental of a song and mash it up with the VOCALS of another song! Here’s the main challenge with this; both songs have to have similar beats per minute (bpm) to work properly together.

You can find songs with just instrumentals or just vocals on Youtube, then use Audacity or Garageband to match up the tracks. (Hint, if the bpm is a little bit off, you can always delete portions of the vocals and move them closer or farther from each other to keep things on beat.)

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Moving Mashup

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In Doctorow’s novel Pirate Cinema, the main character is obsessively driven to create and transform a video “mashup from something trite and obvious to something genuinely moving”.

It’s a great complement to this week’s ds106 remix challenge.

Jonathan Worth, the brilliant prof behind #phonar, has released all his great Cory Doctorow photographs under a creative commons license for all the world to remix. Cogdog has already given Cory the Jedi Master treatment.

I decided to choose this picture:

cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) by Jonathan Worth

I stared at it so long I thought I could almost see Cory blink. The way his face leans on his hand reminded me of the scene from Indiana Jones when the adoring student blinks slowly to reveal ‘LOVE YOU’ written on her eyelids.

Student infatuated with professor Jones

I always loved the way the nervous professor Indiana Jones stopped suddenly to look at the girl’s eyelids.

I wonder if he’d look the same at Cory?

While it’s not exactly the kind of moving mashup* Trent from Pirate Cinema has in mind, it does make me chuckle.

Professor does a double take

Technical stuffs:
I downloaded a spanish version of the Prof Indiana teaching scene using pwnyoutube, clipped the eyelid scene in MPEG Streamclip, exported as mov, then imported frames as layers in Photoshop. I put the Indiana frame layers in a masked folder so that the only movement would happen in the eye area and then added Cory as a layer below.
While Jonathan’s photography is beautiful, the colours were so different between the photo and the film so I modified the skin coloration by adjusting the levels, hue and saturation. There’s still a huge colour difference between the eyes and Cory’s face but I think it adds to the absurdity.

*Also, I realize there’s some deeper discussions about the difference between Remix and Mashup but I’m lazy and I’m going to use them interchangeably.

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Recycled Media Mashup

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Reduce, Reuse, RECYCLE!

I’ve taken 5 pieces of unused media from the Ds106 junked media bucket and created this…I don’t know what it is, but it seems like an awesome party to be invited to!! I mean penguin suits?? Sign me up!

This video was created for the Recycle the Media assignment where we had to take only 5 pieces of media and mash it up to tell a story. The 5 materials I selected were 4 pictures and 1 audio file. The images I chose at random were: a guy and his reflective shades, a girl in a penguin suit, a girl sticking her tongue out, and a party scene. The audio I used was simply labeled “Scrap_yeah_yeah” so I’m assuming the song is called “Yeah Yeah.”

Since I still couldn’t get the Popcorn remixing program to work because of the flash player crisis I mentioned in my last blog entry, I had to use Final Cut again (not that I have a problem with it, it just takes a while for things to render sometimes.) I guess the story here is that the people in the pictures have waited all week for this day, and it’s finally here. They must buy all the snacks, prepare their costumes, and put on their game faces because tonight they’re going to stop everything they’re doing and PARTY like there’s no tomorrow!

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Childbook Mashup

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Childbook Mashup Assignment

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For my Digital Media 1 class, we were required to replicate a children’s book and put a pop culture twist on it. I altered the assignment a little by putting an inside joke in it. My friend has a Toyota Supra, and I think it is one of the coolest cars around. So I decided to alter the famous Dr. Seuss book, “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish,” but instead of fish, I chose Supras. Enjoy!!!

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Bill Clinton: Sardonic Mashup

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For my second ds106 assignment, I chose an audio one called Sardonic Mashups. The point of the assignment is to take a political speech, public apology, or anything you “want to mock for the public good.” I chose a very popular deliverance by Bill Clinton and matched it with a pretty popular pop song. Here is the link to my mashup on SoundCloud. Hope you enjoy!