For the last 2 of the 8 stars required for my mashup assignments I chose the “Contest Nobody Could Win”. I downloaded my favorite scenes from six movies on YouTube and trimmed a little over 2 seconds from each through Movie Maker. The final cut is below, take a shot at guessing:
For the last 2 of the 8 stars required for my mashup assignments I chose the “Contest Nobody Could Win”. I downloaded my favorite scenes from six movies on YouTube and trimmed a little over 2 seconds from each through Movie Maker. The final cut is below, take a shot at guessing:
For this assignment, I told myself I would pick something random and do whatever came up and make it about The Wire. So what do I get? The Contest Nobody Could Win (Video-Mashup Edition) The directions are to: Create a mashup of 6 video clips (either TV or Movie) no longer than 2 seconds each. See if anyone can guess your favorite films! Since we already know it’s about The Wire, it sort of defeats the purpose. So I picked an episode, not necessarily my favorite one, and tried to pull six clips that don’t give away which one it is. Can you figure it out?
I used MPEG Streamclip to grab the clips. The Edit->Select In and Edit->Select Out functions marked the clips, and then File->Export to Other Formats saved them. I did this for eight clips, then imported the six I liked the best into iMovie. There, I pulled exactly two second from each one and put them together. Here is the result:
The instructions for this assignment were to use clips from different movies no longer than 2 seconds in length and “mash” them together into one video. I was supposed to use my favorite movies, but unfortunately all I had access to were the movies already on my computer, so I chose my favorites out of those. Not my “favorite” favorites, but still within the guidelines. By this logic, the video should be around 10 seconds long, so I’m not sure how it ended up being 24 seconds long. I think my terrible editing program combined with my terrible editing skills led to this discrepancy.
The instructions in the video made the implication that people were supposed to be “guessing” what my favorite movies were using these clips, so I deliberately tried to be vague (IE not using any clips which referenced the name of the movie, or using any Disney movies, which I adore but are instantly recognizable). I tried to pick scenes which would be substantial with only two seconds, and which were in some way significant to the movie. I used clips that I either thought were very funny, or scary, or that I really liked. It was actually very difficult trying to find scenes that were short but interesting, and which I felt adaquetly represented some major theme or plot point of the movie.
Create a mashup of 6 video clips (either TV or Movie) no longer than 2 seconds each. See if anyone can guess your favorite films!
