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Crosstimbers Academy Music Videos- Gone 2007

Evildirector's picture

As an assignment, my history class put together a little
music video. They chose the historical allusions, made the
props/costumes, and timed the shots down to the second. We did all of
this in a classroom with a rough green screen. This is a quick and
dirty edit, due to time constraints (want the kids to see them BEFORE
summer break). This particular video examines two similar events- 9/11
and Dec 7th, 1941.

My role(s) in this film:
Director
Average: 10 (2 votes)
OuchMouth's picture

Wow, bold subject matter

Wow, bold subject matter for a high school classroom.  Heck, we wouldn't even have been able to say "damn" in any of our high school projects.

Good editing, and the kid playing the singer does a pretty good job lip syncing and acting.

But did I see shots from Pearl Harbor?  Oh Michael Bay, is there no escaping you?

Evildirector's picture

 The kid did a good job,

 The kid did a good job, indeed, but most of them do.  Yeah, Michael Bay is inescapable, but, in my defense, I used FAR more from the old film TORA TORA TORA...lol...

The shot I'm pretty proud of, though, is the one with the shadows passing over the kid near the WTC...

 

 

"There Comes a Time in Every Man's Life When He Must Spit on His Hands, Hoist the Black Flag, and Start Slitting Throats."

 

-HL Mencken

OuchMouth's picture

Haha...yeah, it's been

Haha...yeah, it's been forever since I've seen Tora Tora Tora, but I was going to add that I hoped there's some of that in there too.  Glad there is. 

 

And I did  indeed take notice of that shadow thought and wondered how you pulled it off so well. 

twilight-ent's picture

i wish i had a teacher like

i wish i had a teacher like you when I went to school. I had a speech teacher that influensed the hell out of me.... Thats what you do with these kids. Keep it up.

twilight-ent's picture

oops! sorry about the typo.

oops! sorry about the typo. LOL

Evildirector's picture

This is a way to do

This is a way to do something I'm good at to really make a difference for them, sure...think aobut it: what sticks in your mind more?  The research you do for a 12 page research paper, just copying facts and rewording phrases, OR...the research you do on period costume, weaponry, history, etc, that you'd have to do in one of these music vids. 

 

This semester's are gearing up as we speak (we do them the last week of class), and I have high hopes. 

 

"There Comes a Time in Every Man's Life When He Must Spit on His Hands, Hoist the Black Flag, and Start Slitting Throats."

 

-HL Mencken

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