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Video Proposal

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I am from Philadelphia, and I love it. I see the beauty of it, in the skyline, the sports fans, in the city culture, etc. I also know of a lot of the crime that happens in Philly, and I feel as though many people, inside and outside of Philly, focus a lot on that. If I can find enough source material, I plan to use videos from different Philadelphia newscasts that focus on crimes, and mesh them together in the beginning, and then eventually switch into showing the different side of Philly, and the beautiful parts and the beautiful people. I would also plan to include music, if I can learn to use it, that could shift the mood within the video.

Philly has been nicknamed “Kill-adelphia” in the past, and I feel like using that, and then switching to showing the good parts for something to change the watchers opinions, I guess. I really like watching those remix videos that including shots of news broadcasts going by fast, in attempt to show the extent of something. I want to do that, making all of the clips on crimes go by quickly, and then slowing the video down as begins to show the good and welcoming parts of Philly, including the parks, the sports, downtown, and everything else that actually makes Philadelphia great.

I have no experience with Premiere, and I might see this video as a challenge. I really want to use good transition techniques, and again, also experimenting mixing music with the video to bring the piece together cohesively. I found a good amount of videos I think on one of the Creative Commons/Public Domain resources that have a good amount footage on life in Philadelphia, like concerts and baseball games, as well as random civilians that I wuold like to use.

The origins of the use of Imogen’s song “Hide and Seek”, know mostly by it’s chorus lyrics “Mmmm…whatcha say,” was in the season two finale of the popular teen drama show, The O.C. It is used in order to dramatize a scene involving the main character shooting someone in the back. The music starts up after a few seconds of silence, and plays the chorus of the song as the man who gets shot falls to the floor in slow motion. Though it was not meant to be, the scene and the song combination became an origin for yet another internet parody.

Later on, Saturday Night Live premiered a parody of the scene, including actors from the show as well as members from the group The Lonely Island. The scene depicted actors casually yet dramatically shooting each other, and showing each person falling to the floor dramatically as the song plays.

Since then, using this song mixed in with another dramatic scene from different movies and television shows. This meme has become one that recurs over and over, made by  many video users, and it can be considered a remix in the way that it incorporates clips and scenes from films and mixes with the chorus of the song, creating a dramatic moment to mimic what was originally done in The O.C. The meme continues to earn laughs as many versions are found among many social media platforms like Tumblr and Facebook, and with each reblog the source because more popular in its ridicule of the first scene.This serves as a remix in the way that it pulls from many different movie scenes, from different genres, and meshes it with the chorus of “Hide and Seek”, slowing down the scenes to add a dramatic presence and add a comedic front to the scene.