You all have those home videos (on VHS) but here’s your chance to make a new, 21st century video. To seize control of all those videos of you opening Christmas presents, blowing out birthday candles, performing “ballet.” Make family video, you pick the family, you pick the holiday, you pick the tradition. GO!
Pick a song (or a minute from a song) and create a video that displays pictures that tell a story with the lyrics. Feel free to make it silly or to make a different interpretation of the song- anyone can do a literal version, how can you make it more than just a slideshow?
When I feel like laughing, I often watch comedy movie like Hangover. The movie is really funny, and it always makes me laugh. Edit the funniest momenet of this movie and overlay your own analysis as to why it makes you laugh (and why others will laugh)
Like when you have a movie playing on TV without the sound and you’ve got the stereo on at the same time. Take a clip from a movie, remove the audio, and add audio from a song or radio show that, somehow, kind of fits. See my two examples.
Make a how to tutorial about something you are good at like a sport or honny. Add a song that fits and narrorate it!
Take a favorite cartoon or anime like show, take some clips, mash them together and add music to it. Try to pick out a specific theme in your clips that follow the theme of the music. Keep an eye out for changes in the music and plan your clips accordingly.
For examples check out youtube and type in “AMV”, or look at this one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8vvTQDrPec
Take a 2 minute video and go through the frames until you find the one that best represents the overall story of your video.
After being inspired by tonight’s class, I thought it would be funny to see if anyone would make a video like Numa Numa. You can be creative.. Mouth it yourself, sing it for real, animate something.. Be creative!! Humor us with your hidden talents of being like Numa Numa guy.
Pick something about yourself that you want to share and make a little documentary about it. Whether it’s the sport you play, your favorite place to go on vacation, or the great book you just read, give us some background, tell us the story, and try to have some video footage that goes along with it.
Create a video that artistically presents a single number in artful ways- show how it is represented in the world or nature. Add a relevant musical track, no narration, let the number and the visuals stell the story.
See Darren Kuropatwa’s Number 9
