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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.

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