Create a simple but artful video. Take a photograph of a detail of a person (eye, mouth, hand, feet) and use a video editing software to combine the picture with a narration that juxtaposes the image (male adult mouth says with a child’s voice “I am Hans from the fairy tale just around the corner.”). Make people think of something (The example may mean that adults have childlike, imaginative parts inside.).
Turns out a music video without the music is just a bunch of weirdly dressed people hanging out! Share your favorite weirdos with the rest of us.
HOW TO:
Pick a music video. Strip the audio track. Put in sound effects.
Helium may be in short supply, but a little digital tweaking can still leave your favorite actors sounding like the Chipmunks. Take a clip from a film and either speed up the action or raise the pitch on the audio track for some high-pitched laughs.
Examples:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps0bzgVLSQk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWRSvJJ7F00
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCXuTqpM0ZQ
Create a trailer out of movie clips, tv show excerpts, news sources, viral videos, or even other trailers. Consider which pieces you are combining and what the new message is. Here is a template for a movie trailer green screen intro. Have fun!!
Download different scene clips from one movie to create a short commercial for DS106. Clip, trim and remix them to let people know what DS106 is all about and how they can find us at ds106.us. Challenge yourself to overdub the audio to have the characters saying DS106 where it would be appropriate. Also try and add the DS106 logo onto an object in a scene. You can find an example at The DS106 Matrix
Take a classic piece of literature – something that begs to be read aloud – and have animated characters do a dramatic reading.
Try to tell a story about your day in just 60 seconds using one-second clips of video. Tell us a love story, your mundane daily routine, a low day, a high day, or any other kind of day.
Okay, this one should be fun. All you have to do is show off your trademark ‘look’. Just like Zoolander. So, the goal is to try and do it four times, while talking seriously about the looks as if they’re all different. You can call them what they’re called in the movie (blue steel, le tigre, ferrari, magnum) or whatever you want. Make sure you use vide editing to zoom in on your face and try to get some sound effects layered into the scene to emphasis the ‘look’. Five Stars(video with acting, video editing, and audio layering). Here’s another video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D519hT7-ytY it has awful audio, but whatever. Try to have fun with it!
Choose your favorite sports team, and make a video montage much like you would see in the pregame video in the stadium or arena. Make it look authentic! Add music and any effects to really push your montage to the next level!
Take a clip of a sports event, baseball, football, basketball etc. Take the commentary from a different sport and add that commentary over the original video. Try and get the audio to match up so it makes at least a little sense. Make it comical, have some fun with it! From experience, the hardest part is finding a video clip and audio clip and getting them to match up. After that, you’re golden! An example of this is from SNL below…
