When I was looking at creative commons videos on the Prelinger Archives there were a lot of videos about drug awareness. So for my video I decided to focus on the issue of drug addiction. I want to alternate these old videos on drug addiction (attached is an example of this type of video) with videos from more modern times that romanticize drugs/provide insight into views on drugs today. I’m considering using music videos as the modern videos in this project. I want to use the song “Heroin Music” by Grieves (attached), but I’m not sure if there are additional songs I want to use.
The point of this video is not to endorse drugs but to bring awareness to drug addiction. I want the viewer to see the different opinions people have on drugs and how views have changed over time because I want to focus on vintage videos from around 1950. I want the video evoke a somber feeling that makes the viewer think.
I don’t have any experience with video editing, so I want to keep this video simple. I will mostly use the techniques of cutting out short clips and as well as things such as repetiton, and slowing down and speeding up clips. A concern I have about my video is that I want to incorporate video clips with sound and also a song with lyrics. I don’t want either to distract from the other so I need to figure out how to do this in a smart way.
https://archive.org/details/DrugAddi1951
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPVWbmVFUR0