I’m not too sure of this assignment myself, but with four-and-a-half stars at stake as of press time, I really need to speed things up for the big finish this time next week. So, for today’s task, I have to “strip or mute the music out of the modern music video,” and “layer the classical music on top.” To make a long story short, it’s Music Appreciation Day at DS106! Again, I might be grasping for straws, depending on what can properly be described as “modern” and what can not. However, I’ve got one week to turn this grading period around for the better, so it’s time for me to show – and tell – exactly how I’m going to do just that.

This was a rather simplistic challenge, all things considered. For one thing, finding the necessary video and song to edit in time were both relatively easy, once you did a quick YouTube search of them. Specifically, I went with the music video for Fall Out Boy’s hit, “Uma Thurman,” and the finale of the “William Tell Overture,” which is also known as the theme to the Lone Ranger franchise. After that, I used a downloading site, SaveClipBro.com, to download one in WMV format, so I could edit it more effectively on Windows Live Movie Maker, and the other in MP3 format, so I could use Audacity to see what could be done to trim the fat, if it needed to be trimmed at all.

From there, it was all over but the credits sequences, referencing the traditional music video credits on the bottom-left corner of the screen for the opener, and using the same cinematic roll-up as before as my closer. As an added bonus, I decided to have the song start again, from the beginning, right as Fall Out Boy’s “assistant for a day” entered a tank to run over a truck.

The biggest problem of all, however, was which site I ultimately decided to upload to. While my use of the “William Tell Overture” finale was blocked in some countries – but not in the U.S. – according to YouTube, the fact that I used the entirety of one of the Universal Music Group’s videos in my entry was all it took to receive a copyright strike. My Vimeo account, on the other hand, was able to get my entry up and running, half an hour after I uploaded it onto their site.

While little effort was needed on my part, it was still one of the better experiences I’ve had at this point in the semester. I can only hope that things turn out just as well for me in the next seven days, as they have been in the last seven.

I’m not sure if the world of ballet is ready.  But with Christmas fast approaching a certain someone thought it best to try her hand.  If you feel yourself a bit ill watching, perhaps it’s best to just shake it off.

Then there’s the wonderful DMCA.

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Classical-Modern Mashup: Ingredients: 1 piece of classical music, 1 modern music video. How to make: First, strip or mute the music out of the modern music video. Then layer the classic music on top. Voila! Some hopefully hilarious, weirdly sexual classical-modern mashup. (4 stars).

I immediately watched the example for this assignment and thought it was so creative and thought mine could be hilarious. This video assignment takes audio storytelling and merges it with a video to develop a new story! I chose to take a modern video, that is recently very new and talked about: Hotline Bling by Drake. This video is really just Drake dancing around multiple colorful stages with some women occasionally popping up. Then, for the modern song, I chose Fur Elise by Beethoven, which many people have heard before. I thought these two would make for a great mash-up.

I used iMovie again, which I love using for these assignments! It makes it so easy. I converted the YouTube video of Hotline Bling to a mp4 file so I could easily add it to iMovie. I then converted Fur Elise to an mp3 file and inserted it into my iMovie timeline. I used fltvo.com to do both of these things!

I inserted a title screen and a credits screen to give credit! I did also have to turn down the volume for the Drake video. Once I had the video in place on my timeline, there is a place which shows the audio for the video. I just dragged it down to 0%, so my Beethoven music could be the only audio heard.

I had a great time making this video. It is comical to see these two very different types of genres/styles interact. I think the classical music I added to this new and funky Drake video provided some interesting dancing and an imagination for the watcher. I enjoyed making this and showing the difference in times that these 2 songs present.

Here is my final video mash-up of Hotline Bling and Fur Elise:

–SALTY SKINN