For my remix project, I would like to compile clips of old technology and create a song out of the sounds from those clips (or at least layer repeated video clips with other music to create a new song). While I was searching through the Creative Commons clips last week, I noticed how many videos seemed to be lost and forgotten. Many videos of technology are out of date but are time capsules to how technology was in the past. All of the beeps, switches, and typewriter clicks might make for a good song and an interesting way to revitalize unused video clips. Gathering inspiration from Daft Punk’s Technologic, I want to see how technology can be a new kind of instrument.

For that reason, I will mainly use very short clips (around one second each) together and in rapid repetition. I have some experience editing on Adobe Premiere, but I haven’t used it in a few years. Using the skills I do have in Premiere, I will take longer videos and find “gems” of sound and use the cut feature on Premiere to slice up the longer videos into tiny segments. I might also try to layer the sounds over one another by having more than one audio track on Premiere. The clips that I plan to use are mostly creative commons. The videos do not need to be perfect in how they were shot because they will be used in such short succession. The goal of my project is to create something that looks and sounds nothing like what the original videos present and, in a way, to make the old new again. This video will hopefully be catchy and evoke a reaction of excitement and enjoyment from its viewers.