For my second Mashup Assignment of the week, I decided to do the Techno Viking Music Video assignment.  The premise behind the assignment was to take a music video and incorporate scenes from the Techno Viking video at certain points of the song.  The music video/song that I chose to mashup was Eminem’s Rap God.  The song is rather fast-paced at certain points throughout, which allowed Techno Viking to make near-seamless appearances throughout.  Eminem is one of my favorite rappers, and as I had just recently watched the music video for Rap God I knew that it would make for a good mashup with Techno Viking.  I had never heard of Techno Viking before stumbling across this assignment, but after watching the original video I was enthralled by his enthusiasm and knew that I wanted to do this mashup assignment.

To begin, I downloaded both the music video as well as the Techno Viking video from Youtube via Savefrom.net.  The music video in particular took a VERY long time to download is it took up a considerable amount of memory.  When both of the clips were finally downloaded, I imported them into Adobe Premiere Elements 13.

The first bit of editing that needed to be done was the cutting out the parts of the Techno Viking clip that didn’t feature any actual dancing.  After this was done, I had two small clips that I could repeat interchangeably throughout the duration of the music video.  The music video clip was left completely unchanged throughout the editing process.  To interject the Techno Viking scenes, I simply layered the clips on top of the music video.  Unfortunately I had to stretch the clip to cover the entire video, which resulted in lower resolution clips.  There was also no way to remove the watermark from the video as I was using the trial version of Adobe Premiere Elements.  Here is how my work space looked after editing:

I synced the Techno Viking clips as closely as possible with the drops of the verses throughout the song.  Due to the editing style of the original video, the interjection of my clips looked a lot more natural than I thought it would at first, and created a product that I am overall very happy with.  Here is my finished product.  Just as a warning, this video is not censored, and contains strong and possibly offensive language.

This Mashup Assignment was worth:

For the first of my mash up assignments, I decided to do the Techno Viking Music Video assignment. We were asked to take one video with music in it, and place a clip of a dancing guy inside it. It seems easy, but the real trick was to make sure the music and the dancing synchronized perfectly.

To make the video, I downloaded the original video that we had to use, called Techno Viking. Then I went hunting to a techno/ dubstep type song that would work well. The guy dancing is hysterical, so I wanted an equally funny video to balance it out.

What’s as funny as a dancing viking? A dancing cat. Enter Dubstep Cat. (I highly suggest you watch the whole video as it is immensely amusing.)

I really love the cat video, because I absolutely hate dubstep and techno music. It takes a lot to make it palatable to me, because for the most part I think it’s just noise. The cat video, however, is adorable and hysterical and makes it so much more manageable.

To make this mash up, I downloaded the two videos, and used the cat as the main video and audio source. I flagged the point in the video where the “bass drops” and then overlaid the dancing viking video. I muted the audio in those clips, and then cut it off as soon as the dancing got out of synchronization. Luckily, iMovie makes the entire process fairly pain free!

While there’s no amazing story or anything particularly special about this video, it is definitely one of my works this semester. I think it’s because I have a serious soft spot for dancing cats and vikings!

5 stars