The Assignment

For Chipmunk Style, I had to take a clip from a movie and make it so the characters had chipmunk voices. To this, I downloaded a video from youtube. I found out how to do this through this article. Using the article, I was guided to download a VLC Player. I used the youtube link from the original source to open the video. The video was saved to my videos. Then I managed to email the clip to myself and even though it was too big, I was able to log into my email on my phone and then download the video from there. I placed the movie into iMovie and used it to speed up the clip as well as cut it down some. Since it was still too big to email back to my computer I uploaded to my website, redownloaded it, deleted it off my website, and finally uploaded it to youtube. There I was told it had copyright, I was fine to use it, but they would place ads on it, so I apologize if you get an ad while watching it. It was a fun assignment to do, except for all the moving the videos around since my computer doesn’t have iMovie and when I tried to use OpenShot, it only had 2X speed, which was too fast.

It was worth 3.5 stars.

For this 3 and a half star assignment, I had to take a clip from a film and either speed it up or change the audio to make the voices a higher pitch. I chose to take a skit from Key and Peele. Substitute Teacher is already a funny skit, when you make the voices a higher pitch, it’s even funnier!

This was a very simple thing to create. All I did was download the skit off of YouTube. Then, I uploaded it OpenShot Video Editor. Finally, I increased the speed of the video 2X and bam! You have your final product.

Today I did an assignment, (1246) which required me to take a clip from a favorite movie and turn the actors voices from normal-to chipmunk! While John Wick is my favorite movie, I would never defame it by making him sound like a chipmunk. So I went with the Wedding Crashers movie, and did the best scene of the whole movie which is the mediation scene. I enjoyed this activity and it was very easy to complete using iMovie then just applying the filter. I don’t think I would change anything if I had to do it again. Hope you enjoy watching!

For the Chipmunk Style assignment, I decided to make it fit with our theme and to use a scene from Casino Royale. I wanted a scene that was pretty serious, but not violent. This was one of the most tense scenes in the film, where Bond wins a high-stakes poker game by the skin of his teeth. I especially liked seeing Le Chiffe (the villain, played by Mads Mikkelsen), who’s normally pretty menacing, talking like one of the Chipmunks. The music was also kind of a funny addition after raising its pitch, since it also ruins some of the tension. Making this assignment was pretty easy using iMovie. After uploading the clip, there’s a tool under iMovie that lets you change the pitch or effect of a certain video, so all together it took around 30 minutes to come up with the idea and edit the clip to my liking.

For this assignment, we were supposed to “chipmunk” (from Alvin and the Chipmunks) a video by changing the pitch of the voice to a high pitch. I used iMovie to turn Liam Neeson’s awesome and serious Taken scene into a chipmunk video. iMovie has a convenient way to change the pitch of the audio of a video, so I was able to easily change the pitch of his voice. It also helped that Liam Neeson is the only person in the scene. If I chose a conversation between multiple characters and only wanted to chipmunk one person, it would have been a lot harder, but this scene is already great and was perfect for turning into a chipmunked scene.

This video assignment asks you to take a scene from a movie and make the characters sound like chipmunks. I went with the ending soliloquy from Blade Runner, a scene that’s very powerful normally, just to see what it was like chipmunkified. I originally wanted to go with the “Do you feel lucky?” speech from Dirty Harry, but there’s a siren in the background of that scene, and it was painful to listen to at a high pitch.

This was very easy to do with Premiere Pro. There’s actually a cartoon mouse setting for the pitch shifter effect, so I just applied that to the scene.