As soon as I saw this assignment, I knew I had to do it! It looked like something I would really enjoy doing and I was really surprised to see that 0 people had completed the assignment yet! So I thought, why not? I looked at Alan’s video and really liked how he put all kinds of clips from TV and movies from all different sorts of genres and combined them all together with a piece of music overtop.

At first I saw the suggestion “beaches” as another example you could try but I wanted to do something different (definitely NOT anything soccer) this time. So I decided on romance. But I wasn’t sure what song I wanted to use. Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” came to mind. But I thought that would be a little too intense for this assignment so I searched “popular love songs” on Google and this was the first site that came up! It was Top 100 Wedding Songs and I browsed through these and saw “My Boo” by Usher & Alicia Keys. I knew right then that this would be PERFECT! This is one of my all-time favorite songs and I love jamming out to it!

So to begin, I just started brainstorming really famous movie and TV couples. One of the first I thought of was Barney and Robin from the TV show How I Met Your Mother. This is one of my favorite TV shows currently and their love story is really cool so I wanted to definitely use them. Next, I thought of Noah and Allie from The Notebook, because, obviously, most people have seen this movie and it’s definitely a great love story (so I used two different clips with this one). From that point on, I just started writing down as many movie and television couples I could think of. I Googled “famous movie couples” and “famous TV couples” and got some inspiration there. I also asked a few friends to name a few off the top of their head and came up with a few great ideas.

To get the clips, I would search YouTube for whatever particular scene I was looking for. I found that I got the best results whenever I typed in the movie/TV show, then the names of the people in the couple, then romantic scenes or whatever YouTube automatically came up with. For example, I searched “Glee Rachel and Finn Romantic Scenes” to get a clip of these two singers. When I found the video that contained the scene I wanted to use, I clicked the Pwn YouTube button and clicked MP4 to save the file onto my computer. Next, I opened MPEG StreamClip and uploaded that file. I used the Select In and Select Out features of this program to cut the specific scene I wanted from the video. Then I clicked Trim to just isolate that scene and then saved it.

Next, I uploaded that file onto Windows Movie Maker and played the scene through to make sure it started and ended exactly where I wanted it to. I did this for each scene until I had enough scenes to cover the length (3:36) of the song. Once I had all of the scenes that I wanted, I played around with the order of the scenes so that there was a mix of TV and movie scenes and it wasn’t just straight movie or straight TV scenes back to back.

I really wanted to focus on using TV shows from when I was younger, or couples that really stood out to me that I really liked. For instance, I was OBSESSED with Boy Meets World when I was younger so a scene with Cory and Topanga was an obvious choice for me. I loved the show Lizzie McGuire too because I always felt like I could relate to her life when I was in middle school. So her and her best friend Gordo were a “duhh” choice as well! Every day before school in 5th grade I would watch Saved By the Bell. I loved the show! The clothes were crazy and the characters were all so funny! So that’s why I chose a scene with Zach and Kelly. Many more examples of these can be seen in the video, explaining each one would take too long!

I also chose some more classic movies and scenes although I don’t know some of these movies or shows particularly well. For example, I used stuff from Gone With the Wind, I Love Lucy, and the romance between a vampire and a vampire slayer (Buffy the Vampire Slayer). Other such classics I know better are Jack and Rose from Titanic (love Leo DiCap), Cinderella and her prince (my mom made me a Cinderella costume one Halloween and I loved it so much), and Sandy and Danny from Grease (a proud owner of this DVD). And many others included.

This process took forever because it took a lot of time to try and find the scenes I was looking for and looking through video after video until I found good ones. So now I really understand why nobody (I now see that there is one person who has completed it) has completed this assignment. It took me several days to find everything I wanted. But once I had assembled everything and put all of the pieces together, I think I have a really nice project. Enjoy the romance everyone!

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