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