The assignment Watching Movies with the Stereo on seemed pretty basic. It involves to take a clip of a movie and add audio that somehow fits with the clip. When I looked at it I wasn’t aware of how cutting the movie and the music to fit together is key! I tried looking at some examples but found that most of the websites didn’t work (a problem I seem to be running into a lot). However, the two examples that were on the assignment gave me an idea. The music really fit with the beat of the clips. My personal favorite was the Circle of Life/Frankstein combinations. The play on the clip of making Frankstein is a bit comical with the meaning of the Circle of Life song.

I’m not sure why I chose this assignment. I think it was mainly because it seemed simple to me. And I really liked the examples that were with it. When I decided to do this assignment my mind blanked on a song and movie that would go together. So, like I always do, I asked my roommate. We sat there and contemplated movies (She’s the Man and UP). I decided I definitely wanted to do an animated movie. As we were discussing I also decided that a play on words would work for this assignment. We finally came up with the song Howling for you by the Black Keys. We figured a dog movie would go perfect with this song. The next step was coming up with a movie with dogs (All dogs go to Heaven, Oliver and Company, and Homeward Bound all came to mind). We decided the Lady and the Tramp spaghetti scene would go great. I realized this was a slower clip and I assumed I was going to have to speed it up a bit to go along with the upbeat of the song. However, when I played them separately together there was a part in the clip that would fit perfectly with the song. I converted the movie clip using Real Player and uploaded it to Windows Movie Maker. The song and the clip went perfectly together! I was absolutely thrilled! I didn’t have to cut the song or anything! As I watched how they went together, I decided that the older washed out colors didn’t fit with the song. I wanted something a bit more modern. The first effect I tried was threshold, but it made some parts really bright with blues and reds, then the rest of the scene was black. It was cool, but too harsh. The next one I tried was Edge Detection. I thought it looked really cool! It was all white with a slight hint of color in the lines and outlined the main parts of the scene. It gave an extra touch to the clip.

I showed this video to my other roommate and she thought the play on words was hilarious. She also suggested that I add title credits to the end just to say the name of the song and the movie the clip was from. I agreed.

I really like how the clip and song coordinate together. The story of the clip is of two dogs who are in love and Tramp (the boy dog) is trying to impress Lady (the girl dog) by presenting her a fancy meal even though he is a dog with no home and just roams the street. The story of the song really plays into this. It’s about how the singer really wants the girl.