Genre Shifting Movie Trailers
Genre-shifted movie trailers where creators take movie clips and retell the plot of the story in a different genre than the original. Examples - The Shining as a romantic comedy, Mary Poppins as a dark horror film, Home Alone as a horror/thriller, Superbad as a thriller, Ferris Bueller’s Day off as an indie “coming of age” film and Mrs. Doubtfire as a horror film.
Genre-shifting video projects are valuable in a number of ways. As video creation projects, they would not require a high-level of technical ability. In fact, I would argue that students with basic video editing capabilities could create videos like these from a purely technical perspective. However, if done well, such projects could challenge students to think deeply about the grammar of storytelling while considering essential elements of creating video (e.g., music, timing, edits/cuts, effects, pauses/silence, etc.) for various genres . As well, students would have to acquire a keen eye for the curation involved in finding & gathering elements that would support a chosen genre. But, even without offering students a hands-on component, these videos would be great for discussing questions around how film directors/producers make us feel a certain way through the thoughtful use of various edits & visual/auditory/stylistic elements.
Download Video and Audio:
Use an MP3 Converter to download the video to edit and add audio that fits the new genre style you have selected to work with.
One Way to capture your video:
Details should be in your video:
Turning it in:
Google Classroom
Save as a .mp4
Genre-shifting video projects are valuable in a number of ways. As video creation projects, they would not require a high-level of technical ability. In fact, I would argue that students with basic video editing capabilities could create videos like these from a purely technical perspective. However, if done well, such projects could challenge students to think deeply about the grammar of storytelling while considering essential elements of creating video (e.g., music, timing, edits/cuts, effects, pauses/silence, etc.) for various genres . As well, students would have to acquire a keen eye for the curation involved in finding & gathering elements that would support a chosen genre. But, even without offering students a hands-on component, these videos would be great for discussing questions around how film directors/producers make us feel a certain way through the thoughtful use of various edits & visual/auditory/stylistic elements.
Download Video and Audio:
Use an MP3 Converter to download the video to edit and add audio that fits the new genre style you have selected to work with.
One Way to capture your video:
- Find your trailer
- Open up Quicktime Player
- File> New Screen Recording
- Drag cursor to the size of your window
- Click start recording in middle of screen
- Start the youtube video
- Click screen Recording box to stop the recording
Details should be in your video:
- 1-3 minutes long
- Voice over
- Titles
Turning it in:
Google Classroom
Save as a .mp4