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Project

The Video

The WORSE it is,

the BETTER it is

By Jon Corippo @jcorippo

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This project was inspired by the film Be Kind Rewind...

...they remake ALL the movies after the VHS tapes get erased. They are so BAD they become classics.

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Example One

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Example Two

Thanks to the awesome Minarets Media kids!

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Start with the WHY for teachers� The bad

  • It’s hard for video students to make their projects look like they are Hollywood quality.
  • Developing a full script for a full blown 3-5 minute feature can take weeks.�The good
  • A Sweded film is highly collaborative.
  • The “script” is already written.
  • Grades are based on shot quality/creativity and not set design/acting.
  • This is a one week project. Makes a great end of semester final. Students

Project

The Video

THE WORSE IT IS, THE BETTER IS IS! Release all that guilt!

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STEP ONE: Download a cinematic trailer from iTunes or YouTube

A cinematic trailer is usually about 2:30

It takes too long to adapt a full feature to a Sweded version.

Just adapt the trailer, badly.

The goal: Match the trailer shot-for-shot with BAD graphics, animation and great editing!

WARNING: Some trailers are WAY harder to swede - plan ahead so that you can actually recreate the effects.

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STEP Two: Planning the shots - using the trailer

Use the downloaded trailer to develop the storyboard - lots of copying and adapting

Use paper to plan! It’s SO fast!

Protip: Use the trailer in your WeVideo timeline to line up YOUR shots in another video channel, then delete the trailer:

YOUR trailer

Real trailer

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Add on ONE: HOMEMADE EFFECTS!

Protip: Use the real audio track or make a BAD COPY.

Make your own graphics

Green screen for days!

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Need explosions?

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Enter the Swede Fest - a film festival for sweded films

Swedefest.com

Better yet - hold your own Swede Fest, locally!

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Make something epic, quickly

No script needed.

Fast storyboard, because you ADAPT, instead of CREATE.

SHOTS MATTER - GET THEM RIGHT.

Acting - worse is better!

End the semester with a highly engaging project!

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Project

The Video

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Consider entering your Sweded film in the California Media Festival!

Free to enter!

Entries accepted: March 4-5, 2019

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MediaFestival.org

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