For my project, I wanted to create a video that discussed why people enjoy listening to music that is inspired by or just a straight up remix of a song from a video game. Another thing that I decided to focus on while I was recording for my video was the target audiences for the specific songs that I focused on. Now, I did not just pick this topic for no reason, I actually listen to this time of music more often than I would probably like to admit. So, because of that, I had a few artists that I wanted to focus on. Those artists were Starbomb, JT Music and NateWantstoBattle, with Starbomb being my favorite of the bunch. Starbomb is the most popular out of the three artists and, like I said, they are my personal favorite, and because of that, I decided to use two of their songs, instead of just one, like I did with the other artists. For Starbomb, I decided to use the songs “It’s Dangerous to Go Alone” and “Luigi’s Ballad”, both of these songs have themes that can be considered very inappropriate, but that’s kind of the part that makes it unique. The songs involve characters from the games Legend of Zelda and Super Mario Brothers, and because of this, it makes it more entertaining that those characters, which are usually portrayed as being kid friendly, are partaking in these inappropriate behaviors. Besides the crude content, the instrumentals of the song are actually very well done and have a professional quality to them.
One of the other artists that I talked about, JT Music, usually makes songs about games, movies and TV shows, and for this project, I decided to use their song called “Cuphead Rap”, which is pretty self-explanatory, it is just a song about Cuphead. This is my favorite song by them, and I really like the instrumental on the song. It has a very nostalgic feel to it and really sounds like a modern version of a 30’s cartoon, which is what Cuphead is stylized after. I picked this song because it kind of contrasts the theme of the other two songs, which were very sexual, this one, however, does not really have a theme and is pretty much just a song from the perspective of the characters from Cuphead. For the last song, I wanted to talk about a song that was not an original song, so I decided to talk about NateWantstoBattle’s cover of a song from Sonic Adventure 2 called “Escape from the City”. The original song is already pretty influenced by rock, but this cover adds a more metal sound to the rock theme. I really like this genre of music, so I naturally really like this cover, it also helps that I already liked the original song.
To create my project, I used my Logitech webcam to record myself and my Blue Snowball microphone to record my audio. For editing, I used Adobe Premier Pro and for the actual video clips that I used, I used a website to download the video from YouTube and then I edited them down to the specific part that I wanted to use in my video. I originally had a more detailed video planned out and actually got about a third of the way through editing, but it was just taking too much time to edit. I really did not want to, but I had to start it over and make it more simple and easier to edit just so I can get it done on time. I do intend to finish editing the original video that I had started, but I might just completely restart and go even more in-depth on it because I plan on uploading it to my YouTube channel.
I would say that my video was an ethical remix because all I did was talk about why people could like the music and what the target audiences are. I had no intention of slandering the artists or making fun of the songs, or anything along those lines. I can see how I could have made it unethical, and it might have actually been more interesting if I had talked about post sides of the spectrum, but with the time constraints that I had because of work and other schoolwork, I just tuck to my original, ethical plan. For my redone and more in-depth video that I want to make, I might add the opposing side to it just so I can connect with both audiences.
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