Challenge
Your challenge is to create a music video movie (or television show) mashup for a song of your choice. If you have ever thought that a particular song would have worked perfectly in a particular movie, here is your chance to make it a reality. You can either use clips from the film to tell the song's entire story or intercut it with the original music video. Either way, you decide. Try to make it look as authentic as possible and tell a story of some kind.
Objectives
- Create a music video montage from a movie
- Select a song or music video as foundational audio or video
- Find and select video footage from one or more movies, even a television show
- Edit a video together that gives the music a visual dimension
- Experiment and explore video and audio storytelling tools
Rationale
This task requires you to use copyrighted material in a transformative way, making your own new creative work from selections of copyrighted material. Identify video and audio and then repurpose and remix them into a montage music video based on the song of your choosing. It also provides a platform for structuring and telling a story arc, incorporating specific effects, as well as practicing the critical thinking and reasoning skills required for making a fair use claim.
Instructions
There is a limit to the amount of video footage you can choose, primarily based on the song length. You may use the original music video or not but must select video footage from one or more movies or a television show.
Crafting a Story Arc
Impose a structure on your video and organize your sequencing, especially if the song calls for it. Keep it simple and use the song's lyrical structure as guide or create a structure from the video footage you select. If you are using a song that is more instrumental or has less lyrical narrative impose the story structure with the video selections.
Finding Video
The simplest method is to rip a DVD that you own and cut the shots and scenes you want to use. Also, you can conduct advanced searches to find clips. However, look for the highest quality video you can find when searching on the Internet.
You may need to download the footage and keep a log of your clips to use with your video editing tool. Regardless, you will need proper attribution for your selected material, including MLA citation.
Finding Audio and Songs
Use songs from your collection or find a music or performance video. The music will provide the foundation for the video you produce.
Documenting Material
Make sure that in your write-up for your work that you use the question tool provided to help you document your copyrighted material (Copyright IV: Documenting Your Fair Use Claims), as well as a MLA Works Cited list.
Requirements
- Be sure to attribute and cite all found visuals and audio.
- Add value and repurpose your audio and visuals, transforming them into new creative work.
- Select safe material, both audio and video, avoiding anything questionable and explicit in nature.
Exemplars
Student Exemplars
Legal
This lesson has been adapted from the DS106 Assignment Bank, a component of the course begun at the University of Mary Washington by Jim Groom, Spring 2010.
