UPDATE 2: I switched to Vimeo for now.

UPDATE: It’s being blocked for copyright infringement. I just submitted a dispute claiming it falls under the protection of copyright law that allows nonprofit educational use without permission of the copyright holder.

We’ll see how that plays out. Either my video will stay up, or my entire YouTube account will be deleted. I like them odds.

ORIGINAL: For the film essay assignment, I decided to take a closer look at my favorite movie, Shaun of the Dead. There’s a lot of pretty brilliant parallelism in its cinematography of how some scenes are recreated throughout the movie, all of it either serving to define the themes of the movie, or just be funny.

YouTube won’t let me enable embedding since I’m using clips from the movie, so you’ll have to actually click the link to watch it. Yeah, sorry about that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7ZJjTmChdY

I ended up using a combination of Final Cut Pro and MPEG Streamclip to make it: MPEG Streamclip to cut the scenes out that I wanted and Final Cut Pro to play them side-by-side and do the voiceover. I haven’t done video editing before, so it was a challenge trying to figure out simple stuff like how to slow one video down or pause it, but I think it turned out okay.