For my last regular mashup assignment of the week I decided to tackle the Inappropriate Laughter assignment. For this assignment I relied heavily on iMovie, FreeSound.org, and Movie Clips.

First, I had to choose a movie clip. I went with Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice, a film first released in 1988. It’s not really a horror movie, but more on the creepy comical side (my favorite scene is the Day-o dinner scene).

After choosing the clip, I went to FreeSound.org to find laughing sounds. I realized listening to different laughs over and over can get a little annoying after a while . I also added an “uh-oh” sound in clip.

After gathering all the materials I embedded everything into iMovie to put it all together. I had to adjust some of the noise levels on the audio clips, as I didn’t want the laughter to overpower the actual dialogue.

Lastly, I uploaded the finished product to Vimeo.

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For my last assignment this week I chose this one for my last 3.5 stars. The assignment here was to transform a movie clip by applying an inappropriate laugh track to the clip.

I really love this assignment because I’m always the one who finds inappropriate scenes in movies funny, whether they be serious or scary, for some inexplicable reason. So, I’m always that person laughing at inappropriate times in a movie, which is why I thought this assignment would be fun for me. For this I decided I wanted to chose a horror movie to add an inappropriate laugh track to since I thought that would transform the meaning of it most drastically. Then, I thought of the Evil Dead, which is a ‘serious’ horror movie that often has me and my friends laughing so much when we watch it, simply due to its strangeness and interesting acting choices. So, I thought the movie would be perfect! I wanted to insert as many laughs as I could after picking a scene of the movie from YouTube and I hope I didn’t end up adding too many (there can never be too many, right?). I think the final product turned out pretty good!

Rather than briefly describing my process of creating the video, I instead chose to make a tutorial for this assignment for that requirement this week, so please go check that out here!

For my third assignment, I did the “Inappropriate Laughter” assignment. I had to find a dramatic scene, and the saddest movie scene I could think of was from “My Girl”.  I was able to find the “He can’t see without his glasses” scene on youtube, and I found a good laughter sound effect on Freesound.org.

I went through the video, and added in the sound effect at opportune times.

The assignment description tasks you with changing the meaning of the clip with laughter, but honestly this scene is so sad that my final result is just eerily disturbing.

I could do this all day! In this assignment, the mashup combines a serious movie scene with inappropriate laughter. The idea is to change the mood of the scene. At first, I was daunted by figuring out what movie scene to select. I had recently watched a movie with Haley Joel Osment (the young actor who so brilliantly played the role of Cole Sear in The Sixth Sense) which must have planted the idea of this scene in my head. The film focuses on a boy who communicates with spirits that don’t realize they are dead. In this scene, Cole admits to seeing dead people to Dr. Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis).  For me, it was one of the most intense moments in the movie, and a perfect scenario for inappropriate laughter.

To produce the mashup, I downloaded the scene from Youtube and found a sound clip from Audiojungle. Initially, I maintained the original drama of the scene by opening with part of the intact version of the confession. After Cole says, “I see dead people,” I added Dr. Crowe’s response without audio. I wanted to create the moment after someone says something ridiculous and everything stops. Then, a slow laughter begins to swell.  As the laughter grows, Cole feels utterly stupid and regrets ever opening his mouth. The original clip begins with this same shot. However, in that particular moment Cole attempts to gather his courage to reveal his secret. It worked perfectly to show both emotional instances.

Inappropriate Laughter Mashup Assignment