"Video Killed the Radio Star": Video Project Proposal

For the video project, Mikhaela, Taylor, Kelsey, Katie and I will be working together as part of the Honors Component. We therefore will be doing 2 videos, one that is non-fiction and one that is fiction.

Our non-fiction video will be a How-to video describing how to make cookies. This would involve mixing the dough, baking the cookie and possibly decorating them.

Our fiction video will be a dramatic scene that is a spoof of 24 about a college student racing to finish a paper on time. It will be an over-dramatization of the entire process in the style of 24.

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 Title Credit: "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles

"If This Was a Movie": Film Analysis

In class we read the following article about how to best stage scense dramatically or comedically. http://sevencamels.blogspot.com/2009/01/flat-is-funny-depth-is-dramatic.html 

It claims that dramatic scenes should adhere to the following rules:

1) create depth within your staging,

2) place the "camera" in such a way as to avoid symmetry and to create diagonals within the frame, avoiding straight lines within the composition completely, and

3) whenever possible, use a darker and more limited palette without a lot of bright colors

I then found screenshots from Pirates of the Caribbean, At Worlds End. (http://framefilter.blogspot.com/2007/05/pirates-of-caribbean-at-worlds-end.html) As it is a pirate movie, it will be inherently dramatic, although comedic scenes, as they frequently do, will find their way in. 

Most of the photos found in that post about Pirates of the Caribbean have a relatively darker palette. In most of the screenshots with the ship, it is sailing forward or away in a diagonal. In addition, any time a character appears he or she is not facing directly into the camera: either their eyes are averted away or their entire face is facing away at an angle.

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Title Credit: If This Was a Movie by Taylor Swift

"Everyday I'm Shuffling": Remix Trailer Proposal

I have always been a fan of the remixed videos, especially the Shining, Scary Mary, and a recent remixed video trailer that turned Harry Potter into a teen comedy: done very convincingly may I add. So, when we were assigned this project, I was excited, but also pretty nervous, because there are some mighty big shoes to fill in terms of remixed trailers.

I eventually decided to remix the Batman Movie "The Dark Knight". This movie is an action movie, and I have decided to change it into a romantic comedy about a man, Harvey who finally got his life together when another man enters the picture and poses as a threat to his relationship with his girlfriend Rachel. It will also deal with Harvey's jealousy toward this mysterious man named Bruce.

This trailer will not deal with Batman, the Joker, or the crime that is associated with Gotham City at all because it is no longer an action movie but rather a RomCom
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Title Credit: Party Rock Anthem by LMFAO