"Silent Era" Back to the Future - Doc Brown to the Rescue

This was my very first attempt ever using Adobe Premiere to edit a video, so please be kind in the comments.

I created this video for the ds106 assignment, "Return to the Silent Era". After the huge success that "The Artist" had last year, and at the academy awards, it only seemed fitting that people start turning modern classics into "silent era" films. I figured "Back to the Future" would work nicely, especially the train rescue scene at the end of the 3rd movie in the series.

ds106 assignment "Return to the Silent Era" - http://assignments.ds106.us/assignmen...

Media used to put together this video:
"Back to the Future" video clip of train chase - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ktMe0...
"Particle Illusion" film grain effect - http://www.stevengotz.com/filmgrain.htm
"Silent Movie Title Card" - http://www.copycatfilms.com/bloggin/s...
"Iron Horse Distressed" & "Merry Go Distressed" piano music - http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-fr...
Flux Capacitor Image - http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-...

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[nylac100]

Nine people apparently are as smart as Biff.

[techsavvyed]

There aren't enough "thumbs up" buttons in the world for this comment :)

[cpdet]

When bttf3 came out in 91, I was 11 and thought it would have been cool if Doc would have documented this on video via an Edison style silent film camera the way he did if or the first experiment using the jvc camera, congratulations for bringing a 22yr old dream in my head to life, you did a great job with this!

[techsavvyed]

I thought the exact same thing (I was 12 at the time). A real shame they didn't do it, but glad I could help fulfill our shared vision!

[bqsfilm]

Pretty good. But you should really check into the aspect ratios of the silent era. It should be either academy aspect ratio or 1.33, witch is almost the same thing. Just saying to be a smart ass :)

[techsavvyed]

Thanks for the helpful comments! I have an idea for another silent era film from another 80s movie that I think would work nicely. I'll see what I can do to get just the right aspect ratio :)

[copycatfilms]

Ha! Nice! I love the flux capacitor alteration to the silent title card! ;-) Nice work.

[Chip Drusano]

This is awesome!!! Great job!

[Darth Solus]

I thought I was the only one to notice.

[Bruna Ferreira]

GREAT SCOTT!



[damian auksorius]

hi my names damian auksorius , i didnt know doc brown went bak in time to the year 1880 , oh well

[JulienBrightside]

Haha, wow, this was pretty brilliant. Such a joy to watch.

[DarKNeSSCaLLeD22]

Boom!

[KryssLaBryn]

You might want to reduce the frame rate slightly as well; silents ran at 18 frames a second to sound's 24 (and even more now), which gives it a slightly choppy look to our eyes. And of course to make things look like they were going faster than they were, they'd speed chase scenes etc up, which is hilarious with horses.

An excellent job with it! Very amusing video, and a nice concept. :-)

[Dadutta]

thumbz if u got sent here from ryan north's BttF blog (hello)

[Paulo H. G. Ferreira]

Execelent trampo vei

[Andrew Bell]

Awesome, really well done