DAMN THIS WAS DIFFICULT.

The assignment was to: Take a classic movie (or heck any movie you like), and rescript the audio of a key scene. You will want to re-write the lines to change the meaning or intent of the scene, delete the original audio, and record your own (this can be done many ways, voiceover in iMovie, recording the audio and editing the track in any other movie editor). For my example, I took Howard Beale’s on camera rampage from “Network”, and changed it to a diatribe on being bored in school.

I like The Notebook, and decided to use this scene because I feel like without the audio it’s hard to tell what’s going on exactly, leading up to the kiss at the end of the scene.  It looked like they were engaging in some passionate argument that could be  interpreted differently to different people when no sound was present.  I wanted it to be dramatic, making Ryan Gosling sort of a playboy, as I feel like I see him all over the media (not that I mind…), with “the best butt” or “recently being single.”  There were even sites making a petition saying that he should have been the sexiest man of the year, and  multiple websites dedicated to “hey girl.”  (check it out… & pardon the language on that website).   His presence in the media was sort of inspirational for this project.

Last week, for the preproduction assignments, I made a recording on GarageBand for this, but didn’t end up using it.  This is because I needed to get a guy to record the guy’s voice, and I found that it was easier to just record over the clip in iMovie, using the microphone tool.  I learned the hard way that I needed to put the background sound in first, and then click and drag the speaking files (I saved them all separately on my desktop, or recorded directly to iMovie) onto the video clip (it kind of looked like a voice bubble) so that they would sort of overlap better.  I got the background rain from freesound.org.

I had to redo this project a few times because it was a huge mess.  I am still not happy with the audio quality – it doesn’t sound like it’s in the film, and if I have a chance before Sunday night I will try and mess around with that some more.  I am fairly happy with how the words sort of matched up with the clip, but this too could have gone more smoothly.

Assignment worth 4 stars.

Cover photo taken from here.