The assignment: 1. Find a video (music, newscast, etc.) in a language other than English. 2. Caption it in English 3. ????? 4. Profit.
I chose to use this McDonald’s commercial that’s in Spanish. I read about the pink slime recently, and I thought this would be a good assignment to mention it. I thought that it was so funny that there were Spanish words bleeped out (I’m assuming what those beeps were for…). That kind of opened a lot of doors as far as making it interesting, and maybe showing some frustration by the customers. In the end, I feel like it’s not really a commercial anymore, because it’s sort of bagging on McDonald’s, specifically the meat. I enjoyed this assignment.
I’m going to double this post and make it into a tutorial, as well, so here we go!
– I started by downloading the youtube video that I wanted via keepvid.
– After this, I opened iMovie, and uploaded the video. I saved the video to my desktop to make it easier for the upload. In case you don’t know how to do this, it’s pretty easy. You open iMovie, create a new project (File>New Project> enter your title, and I usually change the “Aspect Ratio” from Widescreen to to Standard). After you have a new project, you are going to want to import your movie. Go to File>Import>Movies, and then choose the video you want to import. Here’s a video that shows you the next few steps:
Here is the script that I used in the captions.
“Hey Hey” ”What is up my man?” ”Ohh, I am doing @%$! great.” ”You’e kidding?!” ”McDonald’s chicken is so juicy!” ” I gotta have that premium chicken extra value meal. ” ” Except they took it of the Dollar Menu!” ”%#$! that! *%@! What the #@$% ” ”And the pink f$%@! slime!” ”Nuggets?! Pies!? is the pink crap in there too?! ” ”Don’t panic. Those pies are fresh, I’m sure!” ”But I don’t know about the Chicken Extra Value Meal!” ”Oh no. F#$@ that. F$%@ THAT!” “Announcer: yummy juicy burgers, chicken and fries.” “A premium chicken extra value meal ” “A premium chicken salad for your mother,” “Some stuff on the value meal for your brother,” “And some ice cream for your grandma.” “Ba da da da da”
Assignment worth 3 stars.
Add a comment