This is 4 star mash up assignment “Ben Harwood’s Track blazing troubadour” it is mash-up assignment 135. The assignment read:

“Make a movie trailer by taking a trilogy, or any series of movies (LOTR, Saw, Final Destination etc.) and combine scenes from all the trailers to make one trailer…”

I chose to use Toy Story, I found a trailer for each movie and mashed them all up together. (Media used: Toy Story 1, Toy Story 2, Toy Story 3)

I used a few small clips from each trailer to create my own trailer! In my new trailer the story line is a little different. . .

While Andy and his friends are downstairs all of Andy’s toys are watching TV. The toy soldiers are on the lookout for intruders and warn the other toys when Andy is coming upstairs. Then all the toys become lifeless again. UNTIL Woody is toy napped! All of the toys go on an adventure to find and rescue Woody. They rescue him, but when they return they find out Andy is all grown up and leaving for college soon. Andy’s mom asks him want he wants to do with all of his toys, he has a flashback of when he was younger playing with his toys. Although Andy is very attached to his toys, he knows he doesn’t need them. He donates them to a daycare where they are violated. The end.

I used Windows movie maker to create this. I watched each trailer a few times and then I began trying out different clips in different orders, I didn’t go in with a plan. I just figured out what I wanted and didn’t want as a created the mash up. I think it came out pretty well, there are a few areas where the editing skills could have been a bit sharper. But I am content with the way it came out.

I wonder why they have so many Toy Story movies, I like them all rolled together better!

Mashup Those Movies

I realized after doing this Mashup that I already had 7 stars. But, why not publish it. So here it is. I mashed up two movie posters. They are both robot movies but completely different. WallE is more of a love story about two cute little robots. I robot is a story of robots taking over the world. So, actually they are completely opposite because WallE is trying to save the world!

What is going on!? Walle is a good robot who loves others and is trying to help save the world. How could his kind be so evil!? New robots are taking over his world. They are evil and coming to turn his sweet little story upside down.

Ben Harwood’s Track Blazing Troubadour

The purpose of this assignment was to make a movie trailer by taking a trilogy or any series of movies; and combine scenes from all the trailers to make one trailer.  Therefore, I chose the Fast and the Furious series one, two and three trailers; which were The fast and the Furious, Fast and Furious 4 and Fast Five.

I downloaded the trailers from YouTube with PwnYouTube . Afterword, I selected the scenes I wanted in my trailer; using MPEG Streamclip .

On the other hand, I used Windows Live movie make for editing the video. I wanted to create one story by combing all the three trailers therefore; I chose my scenes very carefully. I also used some cue cards to better tell the story to the audience who have never watched any of those series. I also put background music to the video to make it more interesting; the background music was downloaded from YouTube .

The Fast and The Furious series:

I really enjoyed doing this assignment and I found it very interesting to do. This assignment requires a lot of time and effort; since it is important to consider the video aspects, sounds, dialogues and combining them in a way to create a story.

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: