I did the assignment Why So Serious? in which I had to put funny audio over a dramatic (even traumatic) scene from the movie adaptation of my book.

Initially, I wasn’t quite sure what comedy to dub over World War Z. I played around with using audio from Elf, but I just couldn’t get the right mix. I ended up googling “comedy movies” and saw Shawn of the Dead. From there, I decided to stay within the apocalypse genre and use audio from Zombieland. When I first saw it last fall, I thought the movie was going to be way more raunchy than it really was, and I appreciate it for that.

I highly recommend both Zombieland and World War Z (even if the book and movie are entirely different). To get a taste of both, why not watch the video I created?

I used part of the opening of the movie Zombieland and laid it over the Philadelphia scene from World War Z. The video quality wasn’t the best, but I couldn’t find any better version of it, sadly.

I had to do a little bit of cutting (and thankfully I was able to use a Mac with iMovie for that instead of my HP’s Movie Maker) but in some places the audio fell PERFECTLY into place. Other places were a little more challenging, but I eventually worked everything out.

Making this video wasn’t too challenging. Again, I had to use my phone to record so shout out to my Galaxy s7. I tried to give a more interesting background and use my Marauders Map tapestry that always hangs on my bed. I hope my answers were sufficient for Nessie.

I really wanted to download everyone’s radio show and do a little bit of all of them, but when I couldn’t immediately download all of them I started working on my own. It took a lot longer that I originally thought, by cutting the radio into the audio I wanted, planning the shots I’ll take, memorizing my lines, shooting, and editing, it had been a good number of hours and I was dead tired. I couldn’t see myself spending literal days doing some of everyone’s. I am really proud of the product, though it still blows my mind that so much work only ended up being a video less than a minute long.

It was so much fun recording, but it usually took multiple takes to get the shot just right, so I felt the need to take the left over files and make a blooper reel. Please enjoy.

I didn’t know what show or movie I should have done for this assignment, so I asked my roommate. The first thing she thought of was “anything Ron Swanson and/or Jean-Ralphio”.

So, these majestic videos were born (yes I made multiple, it was just too funny not to). I’m afraid Jean-Ralphio didn’t make it in, but these ended up perfectly nonetheless.

I used this video of every single time Ben looks into the camera on Parks & Rec. I edited it down to what I thought were the best moments, but props to the person who made this video in the first place.

I used Windows Movie Maker, since I only needed to do simple cuts and to speed things up. I didn’t want to get my videos taken down by NBC, so I mixed up the names to trick the system. Let’s hope they stay up.

I made the following two videos of Ron Swanson and his glorious self using the many emotions of Ron Swanson and Ron Swanson’s best moments.

This video was made based on the Sardonic Tour assignment. I chose to do my dorm bathroom, because while I don’t hate it, I can definitely say that I won’t miss it when I move out in a few weeks. I tried not to take this too seriously and lose the humor of the video, so there are parts where I could have redone the shot, but I chose not to. I do wish I could edit out my suite mates talking in their room or “Susan” laughing at me for most of the video.

I had a hard time finding a good free video editing program. Open Shot would freeze for a whole minute anytime I tried to make a cut or move a video, and Avid Media Composer|First wouldn’t even install (it’s not meant for Windows 10 sadly). So, I just stuck with Windows Movie Maker.

Making this video was super fun and hilarious, though I’m not sure if it will be funny to anyone but my roommate and I, but here I go putting out into the world to judge.