For this mashup, I found two clips of the movies that I wanted to use, and downloaded them. Then I used Microsoft’s video editor to trim them both to work with each other, and add some title pages.
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For this mashup, I found two clips of the movies that I wanted to use, and downloaded them. Then I used Microsoft’s video editor to trim them both to work with each other, and add some title pages.
For my final assignment of the week, I decided to do something a little more complicated.
After a lot of browsing, I found the Two Movies, One Line assignment and thought it was pretty clever. The objective of this assignments is to choose one line from two movies and combine them to either make one new line or make one line be a response to another.
Keeping with the 80’s pop culture theme, I decided to choose from movies that were popular in the 80’s. I have seen a decent amount of movies from the 1980’s, but I have not watched them enough to quote the lines off of the top of my head. So, I did what most people would do and Googled some popular movie lines.
When I saw the “They’re here” line from Poltergeist, I knew I had to mix it with the iconic Shining scene (I’m a huge Stephen King fan), which also ties into this week’s title, “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.”
To make my video, I used some online software to download the two scenes that I needed. Then, using some basic video editing software that was already downloaded on my computer, I was able to crop the videos and have them play one right after the other to ultimately make one video. It was pretty easy to do.
I decided to try to blend the words together instead of them just playing back to back to give myself more of a challenge.
It’s not perfect, but it is my first time doing any video editing like this. I think it turned out to be decent. Check it out!
Hay, I did this mashup assignment, number 1871. Pretty fun assignment except my Mac started updating in the middle which was super inconvenient because I had to restart. Anyway I just youtubed one liners, for inspiration. Following that I just watched the video and found two lines that jived to me. No real backstory behind it, just being creative. I used iMovie to cut the downloaded, converted mp4 of the youtube video. If I had to do it again I don’t think I would change anything because I think I hit the nail on the head. Check it out!
Two Movies, One Line – 3.5 Stars
For this assignment I had to take 2 scenes from different movies and mash them up into one line. I chose the scene in Suicide Squad where Rick Flag and lecturing the squad about not going against him. He is being intense and not coming across very nice in this scene. I then took a clip from Men in Black where Agent J is telling Agent K to be more polite if he wanted people to listen better. I figured mixing these two up would be good because of how Rick is not being polite and the J tells him to be polite. I thought it worked good because Will Smith is in both movies so it seems like a scene that could happen. I wish that I could change the Men in Black scene so that they aren’t in the car.
I made this using iMovie.
The last assignment I decided to do the assignment called Two Movies, One Line which was worth 3 and ½ stars. This assignment satisfied the 12 stars requirement of Mashup assignments. This assignment was to pick one line from two movies and combine them into one line. The hardest part was picking two movies especially picking a line that would correspond with the other. It took a long time because I had to search the different video scenes on YouTube and watch them to find the line that I liked. Once I found the two lines: one from The Man from U.N.C.L.E and another from Captain America Civil War, I converted both YouTube videos to mp4 so that it be easy to edit and combine them. However, since I do not have an apple computer I could not use it this time so I had to download one that worked. I used the app called Easy Movie Maker to edit the videos which I was surprised on how easy it was to use. All I had to do was trim the videos down to only view the lines that I wanted. Once I combined the two lines, I uploaded it to YouTube. Overall, I like the idea of mixing lines from different movies and I like it so much that I would recommend this assignment to anybody!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH8A-qkjhQU&feature=youtu.be
One of the mashups I took on this week was the Two Movies, One Line for 3 1/2 stars. I was excited by this one because it had a cool premise about combining different films. (Also I knew the person who originally put out the assignment so I thought it’d be fun to try it out.) While working through this assignment I thought it was a good example of different editing tools so I decided to go back and recreate the assignment when I was done and create a tutorial on it.
One of the harder parts of this assignment is deciding what you want to do for it! I decided what I needed to do was just go out and watch a bunch of youtube trailers for spy films to get inspiration. (Also wanted to stay on the class theme.) I went through and listened and tried to find interesting phrases by different characters. Whenever I found a phrase I thought could be useful I would download the video. Trailers can be hard because they only give you short bursts of dialogue (especially for action packed spy films) so I had to find moments where the trailers had dialogue and quiet backgrounds. Another part of my aim was to make sure the two lines really felt like they could flow off each other and that there was not over powering noise to distract from that.
Ultimately I went from a clip from the first Mission Impossible trailer and from the James Bond film Skyfall. (Mission Impossible is like a sub-theme for this weeks assignments.) I wanted to pull out the line “it’d much worse than you think” from Mission Impossible and “you must be joking” from Skyfall. I felt like these phrases went well together and actually regardless of placement could create different connotations in dialogue. It could either end in an exasperation of Bond or the smug look of Hunt. I actually decided to make both versions to show how context of dialogue really can change the perception of story. Who we think is in charge of a conversation or how we perceive dynamics often has a lot to do with the exchange of dialogue and body language.
To create the clips I downloaded the trailers off Youtube and then used the program MPEG Streamclip to trim the videos down to just the lines I wanted to use. After I had the lines down I brought both clips into iMovie to combine it. In iMovie I combined the two clips to make sure they went together well before I uploaded them to youtube. The clips were a little short in the end but that works in terms of the pacing of a conversation and also into the fair use of copyright material. (Since videos are supposed to be less then 5 secs borrowed when possible.) After that I was pretty much done doing both versions of the dialogue. I think the two scenes both try to capture frustration that occurs in a lot of spy films. Where agents are left in the dark or brought into unforeseen issues.
For this assignment, I used iMovie to combine 2 clips. For the first one, I found the famous AOL phrase, “You got mail!” In response to this comment, I added this scene from Legally Blonde. Enjoy!
For this assignment, I mashed up “Aladdin” and “Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory”. I loved both movies growing up and the fact that they shared a line with the word “world” made it an easy choice for me to use these films. I hope you enjoy the mashup!
The first assignment that I did for the week was to mashup two movie lines into one. The assignment can be found here:
When I started this assignment, I could not think of two one liners that could be mashed together successfully. Well thanks to the internet, and a search of “best one liners,” I came up with the famous line from Taken and Lord of the Rings. Once I had the lines I wanted, I searched them on youtube. From there I downloaded the videos using Keepvid.com and imported them into iMovie. Cut the excess off the clips and slapped a title on there and wala. I thought it was pretty good. I wish the transition between the two was a little bit smoother but over all it is not too bad!
I liked the idea of trying to connect two pieces of movie dialogue, so I tried my hand at this assignment. Probably the hardest aspect of this project was to find two comparable lines that could be combined. I ultimately chose to use one of the “E.T. phone home” scenes from E.T. and the “They’re here” scene from Poltergeist. I cut the two sections that I wanted and combined them in iMovie. Both involved otherworldly beings, and both involved cute children, making the result fairly fluid.
The project was essentially another exercise in finding similarities in either the theme or subject matter between different films, while also emphasizing the importance of context.