Project 3 was a lot of fun to work on. I had a couple ideas right away when we were brainstorming our projects, and this finished product is the result of one of them and I am glad I chose it. The initial idea wasn't perfect of course, so I am thankful for the feedback to refine and expand the idea.
The finished product is a video mash up of several video games, news reports, vloggers, gun handling experts, and a psychiatrist. I then took this footage, which all together was over an hour, and cut out individual clips to use how I please to build my on message. When cutting up the video game footage it really felt like mincing vegetables. Instead of selecting the clips and removing them from the full video, I started at the beginning and, from left to right, began to cut away all footage except each moment when a gun was fired. The result was a vast collection of gunfire with which I could interweave the other appropriated footage.
Here is a link to the finished product.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUul3CJ_kDE
The message I intend this video to give is now definitely different from what the original footage professed. The majority of it is made up from gaming videos: videos gamers have made to showcase their video game-playing skills on the internet. The other clips are news and personal accounts concerning both video games and guns. I brought these elements together and turned them around to support my message, which is loosely as follows:
"Firing a gun in video games means constant violence, constant shooting, and zero restraint. Firing a gun in real life requires stopping violence, minimal shooting, and extreme discipline. I want this video to bring perspective to the viewer and make them consider learning useful life skills, like how to properly and safely fire a gun, and compare that with how much time they spend playing shooter video games."
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