This work is for “Return to the Silent Era” in the videoassignment.

I chose Jurassic Park because I used to be fascinated by old science fiction movies such as  The Seventh Voyage of Sindbad.

Peers’ tutorial blogs were very helpful for me. Thanks to the weeklyupdate, I downloaded Videopad, an editing soft and thanks to cryptovalence, I used Incompetec for free music resources.

Videopad has an effect function to make a footage seem to be an old film. But the problem was Videopad worked very slowly on my computer.

So I used Moviemaker for editing and used Videopad only for the last process, which was using “old film effect” and ”noise effect.”

I found the background (?) of text from google image. Then, I put the logotype of Jurassic Park by using GIMP, a photo editing soft.

The durasion of each text is five seconds. To prevent the footage from becoming lengthy, I removed several cuts from the original footage. Brightness of video was increased to show silent film-like exposure.

I put three musics on the footage, but the musics needed to be shortend to fit the story. In order to shorten musics and to combine them with the footage, Moviemaker is fine enough.

For the Return To The Silent Era assignment we were to  take a 3-5 minute trailer of a modern movie and render it in the form os the silent era- convert to black and white, add effects to make it look antiquated, replace the audio with a musical sound track.  Here i chose the all time classic, Titanic and converted it into a short silent film. Enjoy!

So this is the Silent Era assignment:

Take a 3-5 minute trailer of a modern movie and render it in the form os the silent era- convert to black and white, add effects to make it look antiquated, replace the audio with a musical sound track.

I choose Pixar’s Up and I used Windows Movie Maker Live. I felt so limited but maybe in the future i’ll redo if I find a new program with more options.

I did my Return to Silent Film project on Pulp Fiction’s Breakfast Scene. It was perhaps my favorite scene in that awesome film. I used a firefox plugin to download the videos, then I put them all together with Windows Live Movie Maker. I made up the slides using a background I found on the internet and then made them with Paint.Net. It took hours to put together this six minute piece. Enjoy.

I decided to attempt a silent film version trailer for The Car, a 1977 killer car movie. The film is about a possessed car that drives around on its own through a small southwestern town running people down, and occasionally backing up to finish the job.

I did it in iMovie, which I had never used before. That made it a little tedious. I downloaded the trailer and brought it into the program. There I turned down the color and played a little with the brightness and contrast. I pulled segments from the trailer, rearranging some and leaving out most of the talking parts. I think I kept too much of the phone conversation near the end, but I couldn’t do without the car coming through the window.

Silent films used to have piano soundtracks. They’d have a pianist in the theater playing along with the movie. I just happened to hear about a guy who plays Mastodon on piano, and thought this would be a perfect soundtrack. I pulled a film reel sound effect from freesound for the start of the trailer, and added a horn blast from Public Enemy’s Night Train (which may have been sampled from somewhere else, like Blood Sweat and Tears) to bookend the piano. I did it in Audacity, based on the timings from iMovie, and I had to export to mp3 and import into Garageband so iMovie could find it.

I made title cards in Photoshop. Instead of dialogue, I used a song title from the Campbell Brothers, Don’t Let The Devil Ride, because it fits the storyline.

It was quite a bit of work putting all the parts together. It would have been better if I could have gotten the timing and rhythms of the music and sounds to fit together more smoothly.