In my three time review post, I reviewed a scene from the movie The Pursuit of Happyness. I looked the movie up and found some interesting bits on the production and filming of this movie on Wikipedia.

• Because this movie is based on a true story, there is a real ‘Chris Gardner’. The real Chris Gardner had a cameo appearance in the film. He walked by Chris and his son during the final scene. {I thought that the fact that he was a part of his story and make an appearance is soo cool!}
• The real Chris Gardner had the final say in who would play him on the big screen.
• The boy who played Chris Gardner Jr. is Will Smith’s real son.

I think this film is a Drama (IMDB genres). I came to this conclusion because the characters are based off of real people. The situations in this movie are real and emotional. There are painful moments in this movie that make your heart hurt {when Chris’ wife takes their son away from him}. Dramas are very emotional and dramatic {go figure}. This film could also be a documentary but I wouldn’t categorize it as that because the characters are not the “real deal” and there is some information that is stretched to make a good movie. For example, Chris Gardner Jr. was really two when all of this happened. In the movie, Chris Gardner Jr. was five. Some other movies that I think fit in this genre are: Lincoln and The Help.

I found two other scenes from this movie {this one and this one} that had audio to complement the scene. I picked scenes that, without the music, they would be nothing. I wanted to show how the music really effects what your emotions are in the scene. I also picked two scenes that kind of go together. The last words of the first scene relate {in a way} to the second scene. I combined them together to get this:

No, I didn’t just ‘know’ how to do this. I had to watch the MPEG tutorial…twice. I downloaded my videos to Keep Vid from YouTube, which was all VERY simple and easy. If you have never used Keep Vid, be careful! I accidently downloaded one of their advertisements first — tricky tricky!

The only difficult thing for me was the actual clips’ sizes. The tutorial that I linked went over how to fix this, and it helped a lot. However, because one clip has the black lines around it…it didn’t fix it completly. Next time I combine two videos together, I will make sure if one has black lines, they all have black lines.