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Mashup Videos Are A Fun Challenge



My Digital Media class this semester has been full of exercises that have been an absolute blast to do and make. The last assignment was to compose a small piece of music using online software. This week, we were to create a mashup video of any public domain video we could find, include our music, and make a coherent video.
Why my geeky self has never thought to do this on my own before, I will never know. I actually ended up making a couple of mashup videos throughout the two weeks that we were able to work on this. I've done small bits of editing in the past with iMovie for POV videos while I played hockey, but this was taking it to a whole other level.
I ended up deciding to create a mashup of Game of Thrones and Star Wars. I'm a huge fan of each series so it made it super easy to pick out a focus for the video. Finding content was a little bit harder just because both franchises are creating content. Not much of it has been added to the public domain. I used archive.org for all the video and the music was what I created for our last assignment.
Most of my time was spent trying to layer different videos in a way that made sense and changed the original video as much as I could. The only thing that really survived any editing was the major dialogue that i had decided to use. Ultimately, I thought the video turned out pretty good. The Star Wars portion was the dialogue at the beginning, and I think you might have to actually be a Star Wars fan to pick that out. It fit into the edit so well.
If I could change one thing about my edit I'd choose some of the footage. Since their isn't much for either franchise in the public domain I didn't really get to include some of the scenes that I had originally hoped to. I learned a bit more about editing by doing this project and how to make everything flow smoothly even though the general idea behind the dialogue or videos are so different.

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