A 5-star Return to the Silent Era assignment: The dawn of cinema had no audio; silent movies created an atmosphere with music and the use of cue cards. Take a 3-5 minute trailer of a modern movie and render it in the form os the silent era- convert to black and white, add effects to make it look antiquated, replace the audio with a musical sound track, and add title cards for the dialogue. As a prime example, see Silent Star Wars.
One of the best sources for music is Incompetech or the Internet Archive. For the title cards, try a google image search
Sourcery
Video
Railroad Scare http://youtu.be/CGivL32FazM
Test Launches http://youtu.be/cP_OM5VVcSo
Homer Proves His Innocence http://youtu.be/udHB3tftPz4
I Want To Go Into Space http://youtu.be/h1F9-NKqDDk
Images
http://www.michaelbransonsmith.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Blank-Title-Card.jpg
http://www.copycatfilms.com/downloads/SilentMovieCard-NTSC-DVwidescreen.png
(I used Paint and TW Cent MT as the italicized font. It seemed appropriate.)
Audio
The Search for Auk13 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyWteUKLIMY&feature=related
This was the most fun I have ever had with creating a video. I don’t think that this is the best video I have created because the title cards seem to pile up in the end [where it's most necessary to propel the story], but it definitely conveys some of the emotions of the story. I love this movie so I chose parts that would evoke that nostalgic feel of watching it for the first time in the sixth grade. This is a story of inspiration. What I wish I included as well would have been watching Sputnik soar in the sky. I couldn’t find anything that seemed appropriate or at the exact angle I wanted it at. This is a story about friendship and drive. I didn’t want rockets and rockets and all the science jargon to have to be part of the title cards, so in this abbreviated movie segment we see them working and learning and investigating.
I dragged all my edited media into VideoPad and strung them together. My biggest blunder is that of having MovieClips.com at the bottom of the screen, especially because they disappear when they title cards come up. I don’t know how to erase them all without having to go in frame by frame. The music was going to be a piano piece like the most silents of that time period, but there’s something magical that happens about a minute in with the score so I preserved the entire audio. I would like to try to mix an audio track for a remixed clip, but I hear that there’s a lot of mixing and mashing going on in the next two weeks so I’ll be a little more patient.
