This is my last assignment for this week and I had a lot of fun making it! I’ve made a Gordon Ramsay creation previously for this class and I thought why not continue that since he’s a person I not only look up to but laugh with. There are a lot of videos of things Gordon Ramsay says already bleeped out but I thought that would be too easy so I used the UK episodes which aren’t already censored. Then I downloaded different Mario Bros. sounds from Youtube. All things we’re downloaded from YouTube and then edited using Premiere. The hardest part was lowering the volume to censor Ramsay because the keyframes had to be added so quickly and close together since it’s only a short amount of sound. Overall, it was an interesting experience and I’ve learned even more about using Premiere and editing! I would do this again for other videos, no doubt about it!
You get to be the censor of a movie scene or clip. Choose a sound effect or dialogue you want to substitute for a recurring phrase or expletive, or over-used character speech and use it at the appropriate moments in your movie. This is five stars, so you need a movie scene or clip longer than 2 minutes.
The Work Itself
Story Behind the Story
I usually do not like an easy task. I am more about accomplishing a big challenge. Therefore I researched movies with the most profanity. Many of the movies I had never heard of but then I found the very famous Wolf of Wall Street and I knew that’s the one I could have a lot of fun with. There was even an article in the New York Times about how much cursing is in the movie. If you have ever seen Wolf of Wall Street, then you know just how much cursing there is. Before watching this movie, I had never realized how vulgar it could be to work on Wall Street. When you think of a bunch of business men in suits, your first thought isn’t that they curse like a sailor. I suppose I always assumed they were classy rich (and a little douchy) men. I just couldn’t believe that this movie was accurately portraying what it was like to work on Wall Street at that time. However, I am sure things have changed slightly since the 1980s.
Narrating the Process
As stated before, I researched the movies with the most profanity and I discovered Wolf of Wall Street. Then I found a clip on YouTube from the movie that had quite a bit of cursing within just a couple of minutes. In fact, it is one of the first scenes of the movie, which I find funny that these many curse words were already being spoken. To convert the YouTube clip into a suitable format I used a website with YouTube to .mp4 capabilities and downloaded it.
Next I uploaded the clip into Audacity in order to edit out the curse words and replace them with a noise. I attempted to use a donkey sound from freesound.org, but the bleeps were too short to really hear the full effect of the donkey noise. I really wanted to use the donkey noise to symbolize that these Wall Street guys were total as holes, but oh well. I also lowered the volume of the curse words by using going to Effect–> Fade In and Fade Out.
After the audio was edited, I uploaded the .mp4 file into Windows Movie Maker, along with the .mp3 file. I made sure the video and the audio lined up as best as possible. Finally, I added the title and credits slide along with intro and outro music from freemusicarchive.org.
The assignment worth 5 stars was to add unnecessary bleeps to a movie scene.This assignment immediately interested me because it’s such a fun topic and it was 5 stars. I began by choosing a scene. I knew I wanted to do a kid movie because that I thought would be the most fun. The first movie that popped into my head was Finding Nemo. So I googled scenes from finding Nemo and found a collage of Dory moments. The very first scene it showed I though would be perfect for this since they were kinda yelling at each other anyways. That video didn’t show the whole scene and was less than a minute so I then had to find a longer YouTube video of that scene.
Once I found it, I converted it to a file so that I could download it.
Then I used an MP3 converter to convert the file to just a sound. I know this is a weird way to do it but it makes the most sense to me.
So my plan was to edit the sound and ad the bleeps in Audacity and then to put the sound into the Movie Maker with the video and mute the video. I got the sound from freesound.org. I ended up amplifying the sound because it was kinda hard to hear then I would add bleeps to the parts I wanted them and then mute the audio file at that spot. I then imported the audio file I made in audacity to the movie maker as background music. Which worked out very well and now I have the final product!
This week, I completed the That Bleeping Censor assignment, which was worth 5 stars! FIVE!!
You get to be the censor of a movie scene or clip. Choose a sound effect or dialogue you want to substitute for a recurring phrase or expletive, or over-used character speech and use it at the appropriate moments in your movie. This is five stars, so you need a movie scene or clip longer than 2 minutes.
For this assignment, I wanted to contrast something that you would not necessarily think as being bleeped, with the actual Censor bleeps. I settled upon a clip from Despicable Me. There was also the challenge of finding a clip that was at least 2 minutes long, that had repetitive words that would be good for censoring.
In order to add the bleeps, I imported the mp4 file into Audacity, generated tones for each word or phrase that I wanted to censor, and then muted the original track, so you wouldn’t be able to hear the words over the bleep. When the bleeps were originally created, they were all a lot louder than the actual audio, so I had to de-amplify of them.
Once the audio was to my liking in Audacity I exported it, and then opened the video clip in iMovie, removed the original audio and added my edited audio. I also had to watch the clip a few times to make sure the audio lined up, and the bleeps made sense. See if you can try to tell what word I bleeped out!
You get to be the censor of a movie scene or clip. Choose a sound effect or dialogue you want to substitute for a recurring phrase or expletive, or over-used character speech and use it at the appropriate moments in your movie. This is five stars, so you need a movie scene or clip longer than 2 minutes.
As the quote from the DS106 page suggests, this tas was worth five stars at the time of selection, and since this week’s assignments have an eight-star minimum, I need all the help I can get. Hopefully, I can get through this week without finding myself…gone with the wind.
You’re probably wondering why I’m going after the highest-grossing film of all time – period – after I dragged Casablanca through the mud earlier this semester. Well, since this class is all about creativity, I figured that if you can’t cause controversy, you can’t be called creative. So, I decided to see if I could bleep out any not-so-naughty words in Gone With the Wind, whether this timeless treasure needs it or not.
Trying to find the alternate censor, as well as the movie clip to censor, were pretty tough, all things considered, but after stumbling across the clip above on YouTube, and finding a clip of an AK-47 going off on FreeSound that was not only available, but in the public domain, as well, all I needed was a site to download the clip. Keeping that in mind, a visit to WikiHow introduced me to a website called KIBase, which let me download the clip, in its entirety, for free. All I had to do was look up the video’s source code on YouTube, copy it from start to finish on KIBase’s YouTube Downloader page, save the downloaded file, and let everything else come down to a few minutes on Windows Live Movie Maker.
The clip, itself, was uncut and unedited when I uploaded it onto Movie Maker, meaning I had to time every last gun-shot I “fired” whenever I heard a word that could be cut off for comedic effect. I created the opening credits myself, from scratch, and laid my closing credits over the ones from the actual movie. After saving everything, both as its own file, and as an exported WMV file, fit for downloading onto my own YouTube page, I did exactly that, for the first of two challenges this week in the world of video editing. After a few pictures of the situations behind the scenes, as they unfolded, you can listen to the censored finale of Gone With the Wind, “Gone With the Bleep.”
For this assignment, we were tasked with taking a movie clip and ruining it via censorship. So I thought to myself, “what good movies have lots of swearing?” Well, anything Quentin Tarantino would work, so I went with Pulp Fiction.
Why exactly would someone want to censor Pulp Fiction? After all, who would do such a thing to such a brilliant cinematic classic? It must be the work of some advanced alien race. They are trying to demoralize us before they take us over. It’s the only possible explanation.
The assignment page included a helpful video that details the process of censoring a video. In lieu of a tradition bleep, I decided to go with an old-timey car horn. The only tricky part was pinpointing the exact segments of the video that contain the swear words. That took a little bit of trial and error. If you feel the need to watch the video with every nasty syllable in tact, here’s the original:
So I saw this assignment(5 stars) and was like omg yes. I’m not sure why, but unnecessary censors are one of my favorite things. They’re just so hilarious. Probably because I’m incredibly childish.
For my video, I decided to take an episode from the series Regular Show. It’s about this talking bird (Mordecai), his bff talking raccoon (Rigby) and their adventures in the park they work at. I personally think its a pretty good show. The main characters are around my age and I can relate to their relationship/job/regular 20-something issues.
What made me choose this show was the fact that it’s rides the line of being something that would actually require censorship. It comes on cartoon network and it has a TV-PG rating. Some of the jokes aren’t always completely child appropriate. I really played on that for this assignment.
The episode I chose is titled “Trash Boat.” In it Rigby changes his name to Trash Boat only to realize it was a terrible terrible idea. What makes this episode work so well is the continued usage of the name Trash Boat. It’s said so many times throughout the episode. It’s also visibly seen.
Check it out!
On to the creation process of the video. Everything was done using Final Cut Pro. The assignment only called for bleeping out words, but I decided to take it a step further and blur out the word as well. This turned out to be harder than I thought it would be.
After searching youtube for a while and trying several different methods that didn’t work at all, I came across this video.
It turns out there’s an actual effect in Final Cut Pro made just for this.
Well.
I felt pretty dumb. After I got over myself, I continued on with the process.
omg look it works!
When that was done it was time for the actual word censoring. I also didn’t know what I was doing there. Again I went to youtube and thankfully found a good tutorial. A download of the censor sound was even provided! So helpful!
Out of everything I’ve done so far for DS106, I think this might be my favorite. It just turned out so awesome. I’m so excited about it. ?(????)
How is this related to Bonnie and Cleo? why cookies are Bonnie’s favorite food, don’tcha know?
This is for the bleeping censor assignment and I gotta say it’s pretty great. It’s definitely not the most impressive thing I’ve done this week, but it’s pretty hilarious. There’s just nothing better than children’s characters cursing. or at least sounding like they could be cursing. the word of the day i the video was actually ‘important’ but it sounds funnier with the bleep. Then at the end he’s just shouting “COOKIE” over and over and I just had to bleep that too.
This is the video I used. Then I used this for my censor beep. At first I was going to work exclusively in movie maker, but I couldn’t get it to mute cookie monster for the moments that I played the beep. So I just took the audio from the video, edited it in audacity and then put that over the video in movie maker.
Then something is up with vimeo and the site is down for some reason. so I put in that image as a place holder until i can upload the video.
Sardic stood in the middle aged woman’s living room. She was rummaging around in her attic, looking for a box of her daughter’s old things. Another disappearance. He was here to interview her and see what he could find about the daughter. He noticed the tv was on. It was on some american channel that was porting that british show, Black Mirror. A man was giving an impassioned speech about people being too absorbed in their technologies and fabricated realities. It was all commentary, and Sardic couldn’t help but agree with a lot of it. The shame of it was the speech was being censored for profanities. It felt wrong to him, but that’s just classic american tv for you. The woman came down the stairs, struggling with an oversized box. Jim turned away from the tv to help her. There was work to do.
