For my last assignment I decided to do a 2 star beginning movie scene that has no sound and add sound to it. I took the beginning of what looks like a horror movie and added Eery music to it using my InShot app. I could trim and splice the video, silence the audio, and add my own eery music that I found on YouTube. The music theme fit so well with the scene and it actually seems like it’s a real scene already in a movie. I’m happy with this turn out.
Seeing this assignment gave me a great idea to utilize a song that’s been stuck in my head for the past few days, and the opportunity to play around with one of my favorite movies; Using iMovie, I put together 3 different scenes from the movie Cloud Atlas, and synced it to play with a song called Delta by C2C, a band consisting of 4 French DJ’s.
It seems disjointed without seeing the movie and understanding the context of the scenes, but it’s still entertaining to watch nonetheless. Enjoy!
I’ve been enjoying these unconventional combinations of audio and video editing, so I decided to try my hand at this one. I decided to use the scene where Mulan and the rest of the Chinese army find the burned out village, and overlay Simon and Garfunkel’s The Sound of Silence (as I felt the somber mood fit the visuals). I successfully downloaded these from YouTube, muted the Mulan clip, and added a section of the piece of music, fading the visuals and audio at the end to make the conclusion smoother. I successfully uploaded the result to YouTube, and voila! A winning combination of complimentary pieces with similar tones.
“Never snort heroin”, that was a really hard lesson Mia Wallace learned in Pulp Fiction. Heroin is not cocaine it does not go up your nose, it should not go near your nose, it shouldn’t have anything to do with anyone anyway, but that’s besides the point.
On that fateful night Vincent Vega:
Had orders from his boss, Marsellus Wallace:
To take his wife, Mia Wallace:
Out on the town for a good time. Instead this is what happened:
In case the embedding doesn’t work, here is a direct link.
I thought the assignment of trying to fit music that fit a scene from a movie to be very fun, and challenging. At first I thought I would take the final scene from Blackadder, but I couldn’t think of any good music, next I thought about taking an over the top scene from Crank II, but much of that movie was set to the tune of music anyway, so it made it hard to pick some other music. Eventually I decided on the above seen from Pulp Fiction.
Once I thought about that scene I instantly new that Marilyn Manson’s song Dope Show, would be a perfect match, however I didn’t know it would be this perfect. I played around with lining up the audio in iMovie so when she went down to snort the drugs, the song says drugs! So that was an awesome start, then I noticed just around the time of the cut the music change drastically, so I really wanted to get it to match when the cut ends, so I elongated the cut by a few seconds to make it better match the music! And I think it turned out awesome!
Original Assignment (4 stars)
I rarely watch movies on mute with the stereo blasting. But whenever I see a good action/fight scene, I tend to think of background music that would fit accordingly. A film called The Grandmaster came to mind, and there was a crazy fight scene in the rain. Tony Leung took on a whole squad of rivals, and it made me think of this song by Wu-Tang member, GZA called “Shadoboxin’”. When I added the audio to this clip, I couldn’t believe how perfect it flowed (especially the beginning).
Project window in iMovie.
I found the fight scene on Youtube, and downloaded it as an MP4, using KeepVid. The instrumental was uploaded from my iTunes library, making it convenient for me to skip a few steps, and begin editing. First things first, I always begin with applying a fade to black effect at the start and ending of the clip (that’s just my personal preference). Transitions are always nice to add at the opening and end of the clip to display credits. You can either drop the transitions before/after the clip, or right on top of the clip itself. In this case, I chose to drop them right on top to give the scene a proper cinematic feel.
View of Transition window (lower right corner).
I’m really happy with the outcome of this clip. Besides adding transitions and fades to the video, I left everything else as is. I made sure the audio faded in/out with the same timing as the clip fades. Now I don’t care how many times I’ve expressed this, once again, “Timing is everything”!
Here is my final clip (from The Grandmasters) of Tony Leung kicking some serious ass in the rain. Enjoy!
This is the first part of my headless final project, but the last part of the song ‘All my clothes are Green’ and it is a mashup video of a song and a dance video.
The translation of the text you are going to hear in the video is the following:
Colorful… are all
my clothes
Colorful is all that I have
So I love anything that’s colourful
because my love is a painter, a painter.
Considering that ‘Green are all my clothes’ has been written a long time ago, when the people were particularly attentive to be well and properly dressed, a modern dance scene is a great contrast.
The dance video is edited with a cartoon filter, which makes it more playful and gives it the right aesthetic appearance for my idea.
The song is part of the sound track of a music video.
I really enjoyed learning the ropes in iMovie and had fun adding music I like to an awesome movie trailer. I picked the Lorax because it is a great kids movie with a legitimate message. The song I used is an old Ratatat beat called Loud Pipes found on Youtube. These are the original trailers for the Lorax I took pieces from, if you would like to watch them.
When editing these videos I just picked out the pieces I wanted to use in iMovie and placed them together in accordance with the Ratatat song. Here is a screenshot of the process.
Lorax editing process
Here is a link to the assignment. This is my final product.
Difficulty: 4 stars
I had a lot of fun with this project. I used a clip from my current obsession HBO’s Game of Thrones, at the end of season one when Eddard Stark, lord of Winterfell and hand of the king was executed for treason. Fittingly I chose Kings of Leon’s “The End” as the background music and was ecstatic about how well it fit!
I used iMovie to edit. The only problem I had was that the song was shorter than the clip so I put the volume up from the original clip as the song was ending and used it’s original sound to end with the actual beheading.
It is a long clip and I used an entire song and I’m hoping it doesn’t get taken down. It fits so well!
For this assignment, we had to change the sound of a movie/scene kinda deal to add in a soundtrack of our own. Not very hard to do I don’t really know why it was four stars. I also think this is putting me way over what I needed to do for this week, but who cares.
I downloaded the video off of youtube. The original video is here: Well sort of original video. It was really a scene from Wedding Crashers that someone else downloaded.
Anyway, what I did to put this all together was start out in my iTunes library and just scrolled through songs until I found something that could be in a soundtrack. I actually chose a song that was part of another soundtrack (Get Him to The Greek) that I had in my library. Here’s a link to the soundtrack on youtube if you want to hear it by itself.
Anyway, after I found the song, I googled famous drinking scenes (seemed appropriate), and ended up picking Wedding Crashers because the song seemed appropriate for the montage of weddings scene from the beginning. I loaded the clip into iMovie after downloading it using iLivid (rips youtube videos), and then cut the sound out of the clip. Then I loaded the song into iMovie to play over the scene.
The only thing that I was disappointed with this was the quality of the youtube video. I couldn’t find a better one. Someone had poorly downloaded it or ripped it off a DVD, which I would have not been able to do any better, so I just went with this one. If you can overlook that, the combination works out very nicely, especially since it is a soundtrack/movie combination. Plus I think the only thing going on in that scene in Wedding Crashers is some other song playing anyway so it all kind of worked out. Here’s the final cut.
The final video task I chose from the video assignment bank is the watching movies with the stereo on assignment, which requires you to take a clip from a movie, remove the audio, and add audio from a song that fits. My initial reaction when reading the assignment was to choose a high intensity shooting scene and pair it with a powerful song, and that is exactly what I ended up doing. The film I chose is The Boondock Saints, which I mixed with the song “Know Your Enemy” by Rage Against The Machine. In this particular scene, two brothers are ambushing members of the Russian Mafia via the ceiling of their hotel room.
To complete this assignment, I used clipconverter to download the initial youtube clip from the film, and the used iMove to edit the video. Once I had the clip loaded into iMovie, I detached and deleted the original audio, and loaded “Know Your Enemy” straight from my iTunes. Here is a shot of my workspace.
The one difficult task was matching the moment when the two fall from the ceiling with the part of the song where the intensity really picks up. Eventually I got the timing right, and here was the result:
