Vader Mash-Up (James Earl Jones)

A mashup is the combination of multiple sources to form a new seamless work. This video mashup works well due to the fact you never see Vader's mouth move. This allows the artist to draw from other movie sources featuring dialogue from James Earl Jones and blend them into this parody.

What this does is creates a new interpretation of work, and opens up editing possibilities to explicit humor.

More to come on this topic.

Movie Mash-up Ideas?

A movie-mashup is the combination of movies that are seamlessly cut into a new movie. I consider the mash-up as a new creative expression that falls safely into the parody catagory. This creative expression is much akin to what a DJ does with music; finding new interpretations of creative works.

Please comment on this blog if you have some ideas for a movie mash-up. To help generate this topic, here are a list of some creative movie mash-up posters that could make for some great movies.

Trailer Remixes change context

In pursuit of movie remixing, I came across a couple of movie trailers that were remixed to demonstrate creativity and how tone changes can effect material. One of the best videos is this Titanic 2 trailer. I've been entertaining the idea of taking the films of a particular actor, and creating a through-line in the story that can seamlessly blend the films together. This example beat me to the punch, as I was even considering Dicaprio as a likely candidate.

This next example shows how a twisted nightmare of a movie like The Shining, can be recut into a light-hearted family flick.

Recutting Movies

Information. It is everywhere. New creativity, and new media comes to our senses in a flash. How is it possible that we can process all of these images, all of these sounds?

As a video editor, I soak up images. I record them in my temporary memory which then can be accessed for later ideas. I find myself always reworking images in my head, trying them out in different sequences.

I watch movies and I start changing them in my mind. What would it look like to take out a few scenes? How does the story change by mixing up the sequence of events?

With digital technology, it is now easy to recut movies to watch them the way you'd like to see them. For example, I love the movie The Royal Tenenbaums, but a certain suicide scene prevents me from repeat viewings of that movie. With a series of digital tricks, I can now import this movie into Final Cut Pro, and within a few hours I can produce a new version that can be watched on repeat.

How refreshing it is to take a raw movie like Water World and chop this 136 minute flick down to its essence of 12 minutes. Take linear out of the equation, and the story-line opens up to the imagination. Sequencing, music changes, and even some special FX, and scene editing can all help build a new interpretation of a Hollywood film gone bad.