The making of this video took a few steps. First, I had to download Movavi’s Screen Capture Studio to record my laptop screen while I typed. Next, I put together the names from the opening credits of The Social Network. I then had to type it out perfectly while capturing my screen. Finally, I edited it all together, added a little background music (In Motion from the movie’s soundtrack), and done!

The hardest part of the whole process was typing the credits out. The whole time I was typing, all I could think was, “Don’t. Mess. Up. Don’t mess up. Don’t mess up.” Luckily, it only took a couple of takes for me to type it all perfectly at once.

When I saw this assignment, The Social Network popped into my head immediately. That’s mainly because pretty much anything can make The Social Network pop into my head immediately. However, I thought the perfect way to redo the opening credits while staying true to the film was to embrace the coding aspect of it and use command-line and back it all up with a track off the movie score. It may look simple and sort of boring, but the command-line environment is where programmers thrive. In a way, the seemingly blandness of the whole thing is misunderstood by outsiders the way Mark Zuckerberg was misunderstood in the movie. (How’s that for a tie-in?)