this is my redubbing of the monologue done by commissioner gordon at the end dark knight. i tried to have a lil bit of fun with it
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this is my redubbing of the monologue done by commissioner gordon at the end dark knight. i tried to have a lil bit of fun with it
I submitted this project in the ‘Redub the Audio‘ video assignment. That may be a bit of a stretch, since I didn’t have to rewrite any dialogue. But I did change the soundtrack and change the meaning or intent of the scene.
I came up with this while trying out some of the tools introduced last week. I used MPEG STREAMCLIP and Avidemux mostly, plus a few different viewers to examine the results. The tricky thing was to get the scene to play at the right speed to fit with the changed music soundtrack. There may be better ways to do that, but I did it by increasing the frames per second setting for the video. That worked pretty well, but some of the video players couldn’t play it. I spent a lot of time learning and trying different video formats before getting one that played in all the players, and was acceptable to YouTube. It was kind of trial and error, mostly error.
The movie clip is from 2001: A Space Odyssey, a longtime favorite of mine. I’m old enough to have seen it in its first run it 1968. I was but a wee lad at the time. I credit it with having been a big contributor to a lifelong interest in science, science fiction and classical music. I’ve seen it countless times since then and it never gets old for me. It’s such a perfect film; it felt like blasphemy to be tampering with it in this way. I not claiming I’ve improved it at all, but it was a fun learning exercise and the result amuses me. Maybe you’ll like it too. It’s about 2 minutes long.
The music is Bahn Frei by Eduard Strauss. His brother Johann Strauss II wrote the Blue Danube, which was the original background music for this clip.
Given all the questions raised by today’s Daily Create, I wonder if YouTube will let this stay up.
That’s my story, Any Questions?
This clip I picked was the end of Batman Begins. However, I used some of the dialogue from the Dark Knight Trailer to make it look like Commissioner Gordon and Batman are discussing the next Batman movie, The Dark Knight.
I made this using Windows Movie Maker. I had to watch the video several times to get down the pace of the sentences(not that I haven’t re-watched this movie many times before anyway). I recorded my voice in Windows sound recorder while I watched the scene filling in my lines for the movie. Afterwards I muted the original audio of the movie and put my sound clip of the audio I recorded as music. Matching the lips and time proved difficult but it was doable.
DAMN THIS WAS DIFFICULT.
The assignment was to: Take a classic movie (or heck any movie you like), and rescript the audio of a key scene. You will want to re-write the lines to change the meaning or intent of the scene, delete the original audio, and record your own (this can be done many ways, voiceover in iMovie, recording the audio and editing the track in any other movie editor). For my example, I took Howard Beale’s on camera rampage from “Network”, and changed it to a diatribe on being bored in school.
I like The Notebook, and decided to use this scene because I feel like without the audio it’s hard to tell what’s going on exactly, leading up to the kiss at the end of the scene. It looked like they were engaging in some passionate argument that could be interpreted differently to different people when no sound was present. I wanted it to be dramatic, making Ryan Gosling sort of a playboy, as I feel like I see him all over the media (not that I mind…), with “the best butt” or “recently being single.” There were even sites making a petition saying that he should have been the sexiest man of the year, and multiple websites dedicated to “hey girl.” (check it out… & pardon the language on that website). His presence in the media was sort of inspirational for this project.
Last week, for the preproduction assignments, I made a recording on GarageBand for this, but didn’t end up using it. This is because I needed to get a guy to record the guy’s voice, and I found that it was easier to just record over the clip in iMovie, using the microphone tool. I learned the hard way that I needed to put the background sound in first, and then click and drag the speaking files (I saved them all separately on my desktop, or recorded directly to iMovie) onto the video clip (it kind of looked like a voice bubble) so that they would sort of overlap better. I got the background rain from freesound.org.
I had to redo this project a few times because it was a huge mess. I am still not happy with the audio quality – it doesn’t sound like it’s in the film, and if I have a chance before Sunday night I will try and mess around with that some more. I am fairly happy with how the words sort of matched up with the clip, but this too could have gone more smoothly.
Assignment worth 4 stars.
Cover photo taken from here.
Woman in Red meets Michael Jackson ( Rock my World )
This is a project I came up with, where i took the audio from the music video Rock My World by Michael jackson and added it to a scene from Woman In Red.
I took the etrade babies commercial and decided to let them have a conversation about the women’s world cup final and lets just say one got carried away. I used audacity and windows movie maker to make this video and I uploaded it to Vimeo.
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