While writing in this area was somewhat different than on our other projects, it was still fairly straightforward. I tried to open up the video that we had in iMovie, but I just couldn’t get it to work properly, so I jumped back over to the PC and used Windows Movie Maker. That was much more straightforward and incredibly simple to do. But before I even went to that, I watched what we had, a few clips of street peddlers and the homeless of New Orleans, and came up with a script to go over what they were saying, to make the video more of a ‘trailer for a film’ esque feel. That writing was a little different than I was used to, as I was writing to something that was already created. It wasn’t something that I created based on nothing, I had to actually make sure that it worked with what we had, and what we had was filmed without any idea in mind. I think that’s probably the hardest thing about this, working with a video that was already made, and trying to make a guiding light through it, as opposed to coming up with the idea first and the filming from there. I hope that makes sense. I mean, with this approach, we didn’t actually direct, we had to work with what we had instead of figuring out what story we wanted to tell. Clearly we are kind of parodying these people, making it all a big joke, but some street peddlers actually make their living off of tourists. I don’t know too much about what they do and how they make their money or how much money they make, but I do know that some people are terrified of ‘street people’ and so I think that the way that I narrated ridiculous things, like “He holds a much darker secret” can be valid concerns that people have.
There wasn’t much revision of the writing, as like I said, we wrote it after the video was created. And on that note, there wasn’t any pre-writing either. However, it took me a little while to get into the groove and make as much humor as I could out of what was going on. I had to re-work the audio a little bit, at times, to make sure that my words weren’t cutting off anything that may or may not have been important (or hilarious) that the people were saying. There were times that, I’m sure you can tell, where I tried to somewhat vernacularize what I was saying to make it similar to what was about to come up with our ‘actors’.

Overall I think the process of making the video and doing the audio was very interesting, I never really have made a video from already created film and putting words to it was more difficult than I had assumed it was going to be. We tried to come up with locations where we could add music, but there just wasn’t anywhere worthy of putting music.