For this assignment I took a new music video by Little Mix, Woman Like Me, took away the audio and added the Clair De Lune piano piece. I though their music video, which had both modern outfits and an old-fashion/classical locations and scenes.
Originally the video would not play to copyright groups, then it did, and it might stop again. So I made another one with the same song but with Lucifer by SHINee:
For this assignment, I was supposed to mash up a classic song with a modern day one. Recently, I have gotten very into the song I Like It Like That by Perry Como, which apparently has a new version by Cardi B. So naturally I chose these two! I downloaded the song and the music video, and then combined them and muted the audio on the music video.
This was the Classical-Modern Mashup assignment worth 3.5 stars.
If you’ve never seen Dytto, you’re missing out. I swear this chick is part robot. I love when an artist is able to take a concept and just run with it. She can dance like… well… I’m not sure quite how to describe it. Just take a look.
One of the assignments I chose to do this week was Classic-Modern Mashup, worth 4.5 stars. The goal of this assignment was to take a modern music video and combine it with a classical composition.
I chose to use Sia’s Chandelier music video and Beethoven’s Fur Elise composition. I I chose the music video for Chandelier because I remember thinking it was an interesting video when it came out and I still think that. I chose Fur Elise because it was one of the first classical pieces that I learned to play on the piano and it has always been one of my favorites.
In order to create this video, I used the QuickTime Player application on my computer to do a screen recording of the music video on YouTube, as downloading videos from YouTube legally is a tricky thing. I got the video from Sia’s Vevo page on YouTube. To get the audio from Beethoven’s Fur Elise, I used QuickTime to do an audio recording of the piece from Georgii Cherkin’s YouTube page. I combined the video and audio pieces together using the iMovie application.
First, I chose the Modern theme for my video because I wanted it to just be simple.
Then, I imported both the audio and video clips by selecting File>Import Media, and selecting the pieces.
Following that, I simple dragged and dropped each of the files into the “Media” area in the iMovie window, aligned the starts and finishes, and then saved the project.
I had to attach the link because WordPress would not let me upload the video since the file was too large.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqd2t71YueA&feature=youtu.be
For the Classical Music Video Mashup, I used Blink 182’s video for “What’s My Age Again?” with Offenbach’s “Infernal Gallop” (often misnamed The Can Can). Even while reading the assignment description, I had the idea of putting these two together. I used iMovie to line up the music with the video, even though I had to trim the song a little here and there. Hopefully it’s as funny as it was to me.
This is Macklemore prancing Downtown with Eric Nally and others as he clearly gets in tune with his classical side.
The assignment was Classical-Modern mashup. After searching for a video that won’t get blocked for copyright issues I landed on a music video by Justin Timberlake. I then chose the song Mozart Symphony #40 as the Classical piece. It was pretty tricky timing the song and video so that it could make some sort of sense, but I think it works pretty well. I give this assignment 2 stars Hopefully the video isn’t blocked!
classical modern mashup from Daniel Valdez on Vimeo.
(…Why did this embed so big??)
For the 4 1/2 star “Classical-Modern Mashup” assignment, I mixed the music video to Robyn’s “Dancing on My Own” with Chopin’s Waltz No. 12. This one was pretty hard; the rating is maybe a bit high, but far more accurate than other ratings I’ve seen.
At first, I really wanted to do the music video to OMI’s “Cheerleader”. In pursuit of this goal, I googled the BPM (beats per minute) of “Cheerleader”, which was 118. Then, I googled “classical music with bpm 118”. This, I reasoned, would be my best chance of getting music that went well with the video. I was wrong. Nothing worked. I tried five different songs, and none of them fit the video. In defeated disgust, I looked on the list I found (https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~davet/music/bpm/118.html) and came up with the music vid above, which turned out to be a pretty good match for Waltz No. 12, the last song I’d tried to mix with the “Cheerleader” video.
I downloaded the video with 4K Video Downloader and the music via listentoyoutube.com. Then, I simply stuck them together in MovieMaker (muting the video, of course). What I hadn’t counted on was the fact that Waltz is a good minute shorter than the video. Oops. However, there was a really good place to cut it (the scene goes black) pretty much perfectly at the end of the song, which I took as a sign from God to just cut the video.
Overall, I’m pretty satisfied with what came out. Finding the right components was a bit of a pain, but I think it ended up matching pretty well. I mean, it doesn’t match the unmitigated genius of Beyonce Dances to Shostokovich, but what can?
This assign was a lot of fun. I had to take a pop song and put a classical song over it to make it look like the pop artist was dancing to the classical music. Here is the video that I produced
For the first assignment this week I did a a mashup between the 24k music video and the classical song Hoe-down. The assignment is worth 4.5 stars and can be found here:
To make this mashup, I went to Youtube and found a popular dance music video from right now. Once I found the video I downloaded just the video on Keepvid.com. I then found the perfect piece of classical music and layered them together on iMovie. After adding a title that was about it! Beware that if you do not watch the real music video first this will be weird!
The actual music video:
My mashup:
