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.

At first I had a hard time trying to decide what I wanted to do for my video project, so I started just looking up things that I am interested in on a creative commons archive. One of those things is running, so I was looking at videos of people running races at the Olympics and world championships. But as I was scrolling through the search results, there was a video of Canadian geese running around. During the time working on our projects in class, I just messed around with alternating between a scene of a person running and a scene of a goose running. Later on, I realized that it might be cool to compare how different animals run.

My idea for my video is to gather clips of all sorts of different animals moving. It’ll have a large range of scenes including humans, small four-legged animals (like dogs or cats), larger animals running (horses, giraffes, etc.), birds flying, and other cool things that I find. I may or may not include aquatic animals, it depends on how much source material I can find.

To make it more interesting, I am going to try to make it so each clip is a similar running or movement style to the scenes right before and after. For example, I may have a section where there is a cat running followed by a flying squirrel running on a branch and jumping off it. The gliding of the flying squirrel can serve to transition from four legged animals to birds.

It may be hard to find similarities between all of the different animals that I use. One of those that would be hard to do would be snakes slithering along the ground. To get around this, I may just have a section at the end that is a compilation of weirder styles of movement.

When initially thinking about what I should do for my video project, I thought about something I already enjoy that I could put my own spin on, so actually doing the project would not be unbearable. I am already a huge music fan, so I thought I should probably do a project with one of my favorite music videos.

For my video project, I’m going to try and do a sort of mashup remix with Lupe Fiasco’s song “Paris, Tokyo.” The song’s premise is about traveling, more notable falling asleep in one location and waking up in another location. In fact, in the video, the artist is traveling the globe through a variety of different ways. So, what I wanted to do is collect a bunch of videos of planes and trains through Creative Commons and mash that up with the Lupe Fiasco’s video for Paris, Tokyo. I gathered up a group of general “transportation” videos from Flickr. I would leave the URL’s of all of the videos I gathered, but they are each entirely too long. I’m also using Lupe’s actual “Paris, Tokyo” video, and I will be taking snippets from that video as well to put everything together. The whole time I will have the audio of the actual song playing during this entire video.

One of the reasons I enjoyed the song so much was because it was smooth and gave you an easy-going feeling when listening to it. Hopefully, my remix will evoke similar feelings in those who choose to watch it.

I do not know too much with Adobe Premiere, so most of the effects I will be using will mostly be cutting video and rearranging them, but I hope to gain some knowledge in some simple effects. This way there will be smooth transitions between sections of video.

Lupe Fiasco – (Paris, Tokyo):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp2uqGLNm5k

CDM_Video Proposal

John Grove

1-17-16

This project presents an excellent opportunity to educate others about topics that they are not familiar with or haven’t considered before. As an engineering student, I have learned a lot about different kinds of technology that our society relies on and how they are built. From skyscrapers, to airbags to MRI machines, engineers design our world and are constantly trying to increase the quality of the products they build. I intend to take clips from different engineering projects, hopefully from each engineering discipline, and mesh them together. This will be done with the software adobe premiere, and while I have some experience in it from class, I still need to practice using the software in order for the video to turn out the way I want. I would like to include at least one 8-10 second clip from each discipline, the disciplines are as follows: Aerospace, Biomedical, Civil, Chemical, Computer, Electrical, Industrial and Mechanical. Each of these engineering disciplines design products we rely on, and I want to keep the concepts simple and relevant to everyday life. I don’t not intend to try and make one discipline look better than the other ones, nor I do I want to make anything look more complicated that it really is, however I would like people to be surprised by how the work engineers do affects their lives. One example of this would be clean water. The process of cleaning and distributing water is very difficult, I do not intend to explain the process, rather inform the class that the engineers at ALCOSAN work hard in order to help serve the community with something essential for living.

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.