Production Statement
For my project, I chose to do a video/sound remix. I chose to use the game Saints Row 3 because it has a very open world feel to it. There is a main storyline, however I chose to take it from the point of an average man who mutilates zombies in his free time.
I started by ordering a specific RCA Female to USB cable called the EasyCap. What it allows me to do, is stream whatever I’m seeing on my Xbox straight into my computer. The cable only came in on Wed, so I have not had much time to learn how to get the best results. Still, this video turned out decent quality. I then played the game and choreographed the actions and movements that my character would do. After recording a solid chunk of video, I took it into WMM, (which for some reason had better quality than a more advanced software that I had.) and clipped much of the 10+ minute video away, leaving only things I wished to keep. Then I remixed the song on my MC software. The remix is done very poorly and I hope that this is not how people see my 9+ years of music education has paid off. I made it simple. The songs are “Golden Days” and “Big Boss.” After all this was done, I put them all together and synced certain elements with the sound.
The point that I was trying to get across, is that in a game where the main point is to take over a city and its crime scene, one could take a whole different approach. The player can live a normal life, living in a decent suburb outside of the city of Steelport. Then on a sudden change of pace, they can turn into a super hero and fly above the city, landing in a hostile zombie park and slaughtering everything that moves.
I learned that remediation can be very easily done, especially with today’s tech. This video shows an aspect of the game that was never meant to be the main point, yet has the ability to be a game on its own.