Return to the Silent Era

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The dawn of cinema had no audio; silent movies created an atmosphere with music and the use of cue cards. Take a 3-5 minute trailer of a modern movie and render it in the form os the silent era- convert to black and white, add effects to make it look antiquated, replace the audio with a musical sound track, and add title cards for the dialogue. As a prime example, see Silent Star Wars.

One of the best sources for music is Incompetech or the Internet Archive. For the title cards, try a google image search

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stefaniesophie

Harmonium Love

Why turning parts of a modern movie into a silent movie? I wondered while reading about this ds106  video assignment. I had no idea but was

Darren Crovitz

Remix #4 (Video) Frank vs the Tranq

For the final remix project, I did a spin on “Return to the Silent Era”. I didn’t really create a trailer for the film–more like
crystalrose0784

Silence in the Moulin Rouge

Video Assignment Return to the Silent Era – ds106 assignment worth 5 stars The dawn of cinema had no audio; silent movies created an atmosphere with music
ppatel2

Return to the Silent Era

Return to the Silent Era, in this assignment we had to show a trailer and turn it to grayscale, make it olden day looking and
mwatanab

I Want To Go Into Space

A 5-star Return to the Silent Era assignment: The dawn of cinema had no audio; silent movies created an atmosphere with music and the use of
aetherbunny

Doesn’t matter when or where–Dean will always think he’s Batman

It took about an hour browsing YouTube before I found the perfect scene to re-make into a silent movie a la the Return to the
ericgreenlaw

Return to the Silent Era

This might be my new favorite assignment this year.  It was certainly challenging, and time consuming, but it was a blast to do.  I thought
Anapaula Ojeda

Oh, so Brave!

We went back in time! For the assignment Return to the Silent Era, we had to “take a 3-5 minute trailer of a modern movie and
kmatthe2

Video Assignment #1

For this assignment, I chose to do the silent movie. First, I had to choose a movie. I chose the trailer of Elf because I start
waveridengal405

Elf in Black and White

Silent Era This assignment was to take a modern movie clip and revert it to an old silent film. Once again, the outcome of my christmas mood.

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