Author Archives: nerakchen

Video Proposal

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

Sorority Cult Remix

This video is a remix of a cult video and sorority recruitment videos. By combining these two sources, this video makes a statement about how sororities are eerily similar to cults. It uses repetition and alternates between clips from both of the sources. It quickly flashes back and forth between the two sources. One of these sources, the cult video, is much older than the clips from sorority recruitments. This dissonance makes the video a little creepy and the intended audience from both sources are very different. With the said, both videos used in this remix are used for the same purpose- to recruit people. I don’t know anything about the cult video used in this; it could be to make people aware of the issue of cults or it could be used to recruit people to join cults- my guess is the former.

The most affective part of this video in describing sororities to cults, in my opinion, is the end of the video, where girls from different groups are in a doorway cheering and the person who made this remix sped up and slowed down these clips. This technique is used throughout in this remix, the author uses lots of speeding up and slowing down, as well as repetition.  This adds to the creepy, cult-like feeling in this video. I think that overall, the editing of this video is pretty good and fulfills its purpose.

Responses to this video are very different. Some people think it’s funny, some people think its accurate, and some people think its offensive (mostly sorority girls). It’s received a lot of backlash from sorority girls, which I think is hilarious. Personally, I’m in a sorority and I think this video is really funny and a lot of the points that are brought up, though they are exaggerated, have truth to them. This remix is obviously extreme, but it does bring up a good point and kind of makes me not want to be in a sorority I think shows this is a good use of remixing due to its persuasive powers.