The hardest part of getting this digital remix project up and running was finding and learning the different programs to set it up. The idea itself and the actual project wasn't too difficult by itself, but first I had to change the file from MPEG4 to .wmv, then I had to find a program to edit the movies how I wanted them to be edited (I used Cyberlink PowerDirector), and then I had to find various programs to play around with the audio like I wanted (TTSApp, RealPlayer.)
I enjoyed doing this project, and if I had more time, I would have made longer clips. The clips themselves took about an hour for the first one and a couple hours for the second one, subtracting the hours that I spent finding various programs. The hardest part of the project was finding a video converter - I ended up going with 1st Video Converter. It might have been easier if I had shelled out some money, but I'm cheap, and figured the trials would be good enough. I think I went through at least 4 different converters until I found one that actually worked. It would have been a lot more convenient if the Internet Archive let me download the movie in WMV file type, but c'est la vie.
Another annoying part of this project was I couldn't embed the actual video on to my web page! I used youtube.com to upload the actual video, but when I tried to embed, I couldn't get the stupid thing to work, so I ended up having to just put the links on there. Not exactly the most efficient, but hopefully it will work out for the best.
To comment on the pieces:
First of all, I did two pieces because I had two separate ideas, but didn't want ridiculously long stretches; both pieces are a little under a minute and a half.
The first piece I just thought it would be really entertaining to use "robot voices" in a common movie that everyone would recognize. Since the voices don't contain any emotion, this piece demonstrates how just changing the tone in voices can change a movie's message (and in this case, imho, make it seem really silly!)
The second piece I thought of from the movie Kung Pow: Enter the Fist. I thought it was really entertaining how Steve Oedekerk changed an entire movie and made it hilarious. I know that my attempt isn't as funny, but I tried, using a random little story I made up on the spot after watching that section of the movie.
Oh, and in regards to copyright:
Scrooge (1935) is a British import that is under public domain.
I used TTSApp to make the voices in the edited first version.
The Chinese audio is just a fragment of a wikipedia audio file.
I made up the subtitles for the edited second version.
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