Friday, October 23, 2015

Inspiration and Ideas for Project 3

For Project 3 we have been prompted to appropriate videos from Youtube under the creative commons licence, and craft our own video out of clips to convey a meaning that changes the message.  For mine I had the idea come to me when I saw that there was video game footage under the creative commons category on Youtube.  I like video games but I have been thinking about how many games these days are shooter-based.  Usually first-person, the purpose of these games is to shoot and defeat enemies.  I like the idea of playing off of this by taking away all of the game-play footage EXCEPT for the moments when the guns are firing, making a continuous barrage sequence.  In the background I would play "Blow a Kiss Fire a Gun" by Major Lazer.

I am going to see if I can find video clips of real people shooting for target practice; training, focused, and serious, and have them interspersed throughout the video.  Then I think it would show a new angle on guns.  I am thinking of how most young men (and many women) these days play an extensive amount of shooter video games, but how many actually train with the real thing, get a gun permit, and know how to defend themselves and their families?  Regardless if they ever end up needing it, this is surely a more useful skill than knowing how to shoot lasers in a video game.  I don't want this video to bash video games either, I think video games are really fun and play them myself, rather, it would be a suggestion of something else people could be doing with their lives if they aren't,  myself included.  Those are my ideas and inspiration thus far.

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