Yes - after a lot of listening to other people talk about fair use and remix, we finally get to put our hands on the tools and starting making our own remixes!!! But before you get the first tutorial on getting music tracks into Final Cut Pro, spend about an hour doing the following things.
1. First, if you haven’t already done so, go read the FURI Youth bios for all the participants. Post at least one comment on someone’s bio. If you want to edit your post, log in and hit manage. The list of posts will appear and you can then click on your post and it will open up so you can edit.
2. Write a post under the Category “Daily Reflections” responding to the following:
What have you learned or done in FURI that has impacted or inspired you the most? (Or just write about whatever you want having to do with FURI so far). Reflect on your experience (good or bad).
3. After you publish your post, open up our GoogleMy Map following the link sent to your email. Find your house and change the icon to the crib icon. Then go to Flickr and find a photo if you like and add it to the map (Click html first) by pasting in the embed code. Feel free to add other information to the map such as your school, organizations you belong to, upcoming events or whatever.
4. Find one of the videos you have posted or post a new one and tag it using some of the tag guidelines we talked about yesterday (source material, issue, form, style, target of critique).The way to do this is to LOGIn, hit MANAGE, locate your post and click on it to edit. Now under the post you can add tags. Remember to put commas in between tags!!! Hit save.
5. The rest of the day you will begin editing your first remix! We have talked a lot in the last two days about remix as critique and as a way to expose a lie or tell the truth. Now you need to do one more post before we start.
Log in to post and hit WRITE. Title the post your name and then First Ideas. The category for this post is OUR REMIXES. In the post answer the following questions:
- What are some songs you have thought about using and would you illustrate the song or critique the song?
- We know that the form we will be using is music video, but what kind of style do you envision? (parody, humor, satire, irony, serious, illustration?)
- With your first music video remix, what are some possible TARGETs for your CRITIQUE? What lies would you like to expose or truths would you like to tell?
- What possible ISSUES could your music video address?
After you are done publishing this post, take a break. We want everybody’s remix to be as powerful as possible. So when we meet as a group to discuss ideas and you can get any feedback or advice that you want.
