Final project possibility
Mark Scolari
For my final project I’m hoping to make something that is just fun to watch. Essentially I’m trying to make a meme or a little story, I’m going to attempt to take audio and visual clips from different sources to make a different meaning from the original intention. I notice that the most popular memes on the internet are shot videos ranging from 15 seconds to 2 minutes however any longer than that and most people typically lose interest. The meme I intend to make is going to be roughly 1 minute and 30 seconds in length and will include a yet to be determined reference to recent events as well as a reference to a relatively old meme and considering the lifespan of memes on the internet that would be one from about two weeks ago. While this will sound ridiculous especially in writing I’m going to use the beans meme which is an audio clip of someone saying beans in a weird way as well as a visual clip from a political speech. The speech I will use for the visual clip will most likely be one of president Biden giving some important address. I’m going to use this project to satirize a very serious event so the more important the speech the better. I’m going to try to jam in as many memes other than the ones mentioned as I possibly can in the short video to provide something akin to a sensory overload which will be perfect for the internet where I hope to actually post my project and see how it does in terms of memes that is.
Nice summary here. Consider the feeling of overload for this project—how to incite the viewer to feel overloaded—rather than focus too heavily on content. For instance, the words of the Biden speech might actually be distracting from the gut feeling of overload that you're trying to produce because content messages like these are inherently narrative—we want to know the story. Consider disrupting the viewer's ability to reach the narrative content, possibly by distorting it, layering it, or just letting it all become so cacophonous that it is illegible. It's a great starting point here, but it's so important that it gets REALLY wild within the minute and a half to truly embody overload. I'm emphasizing this embodiment because I think this piece, though lighthearted and funny in a way, is also an incredibly important gesture of cultural critique. Take a look at this student piece from a video class at GCC last semester. Though it's longer, there seem to be some similar energy to what you're planning:
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