Hey guys, I made another video with the new footage that Joe posted last night and I really loved the final result. I took some testimonials again, I think they give to the record this documentary thing, it's nice. I kept the same music that for me, totally combines to the purpose of the video.

Hope you enjoy it. Thanks <3

So at about three in the morning today I started watching Joe's OWS footage and I couldn't help but stay up and edit this together. There was no choice in the matter. This is the first draft so I am very open to constructive cristism and and suggestions you might have to better this project. Let me know what you think. 

I'd been chewing over various Occupy Wall Street video ideas for a while in my head, but around the time Joe posted his footage and started the collab I'd settled on the idea of putting the modern visuals with old audio. Initially I was going to do a mashup of great speakers, but I ended up not liking that a) they were all old white dudes and b) it made the whole thing feel very disjointed. Eventually I settled on the LBJ Great Society Speech that he gave at the University of Michigan commencement in 1964. (It's public domain even though the site says it might not be - I called the LBJ Library to check, because I'm that paranoid. As the very nice Texan librarians told me, "all presidential speeches should be in the public domain, so y'all should be okay using them".)This is partially because it's a great, relevant speech, and partially because I really enjoyed telling everyone who wanted a description of what I was working on that I was "basically going to Lydon B. the crap out of their Johnson".

Har, har, I'm hilarious.

Anyway, as always, everything's a work in progress, leave comments and suggestions, blah blah blah, et cetera.

(Note: Archive.org has a great selection of footage from OWS, and I used quite a bit of it. If you're curious, check the resources, I'll be putting a text record with a list of all the videos I used and links to them.)

Raw footage that I RECorded on the early morning of November 15th, 2011, when the NYPD broke up Occupy Wall Street protests in NYC.

Raw footage that I RECorded on the early morning of November 15th, 2011, when the NYPD broke up Occupy Wall Street protests in NYC.

Raw footage that I RECorded on the early morning of November 15th, 2011, when the NYPD broke up Occupy Wall Street protests in NYC.

In the middle of the night last night, NYPD decided to raid Zuccotti Park where the #OWS occupation had been centered, pretty much since it began.  I was heading to bed when I heard about it, but instead decided to grab my camera and head over there.  I ended up RECording about 3 hours raw footage.  This is just a small sampling of some of it.  I'll be releasing more soon.

Raw footage that I RECorded on the early morning of November 15th, 2011, when the NYPD broke up Occupy Wall Street protests in NYC.

Taken on 17 Nov 2011.

Raw footage that I RECorded on the early morning of November 15th, 2011, when the NYPD broke up Occupy Wall Street protests in NYC.

Hopefully an intro to a bigger piece regarding this movement. 

What I eventually want to create is a video that demonstrates how the movement began in NY and grew to become a global movement. I do believe the events from last night in NY were an important turning point for the movement that’s why it is highlighted in the beginning, and also NY is where it all began, so it would make for a good intro to the movement and video as a whole. 

The countries listed at the end are actually taken from here: http://www.occupytogether.org/actions/ where they list various places that the movement is taking place. 

Still a work in progress, have a lot more footage to work with and need lots more records.

Ideas?    

I don't know how I missed this earlier. But good clip.

(I recommend watching this with your headphones/earphones on. The song sounds completely different without them.)

When i first saw Joe's Occupy Wall Street collaboration,, Robo_J's Weapon REmix instantly started playing in my head!  So I was pleased that Metaphorest and Robo_j added their RECords to the collab.

I reread Metaphorest's lyrics and the words in the image are from her song but I rearranged a few to make another statement.

Took this in London two weeks ago.

My contribution to the Occupy Collab.

Protester at Zuccotti Park

Initially, I just laid out the interviews to form a narrative from which I can add in the footages. However, after I've finished editing the interviews together and started to add the footages over it, I felt that the interviews by themselves were engaging and work well. Just having the interviews flow from one to another makes it interesting for me. So I decided to just leave it as such (and also I got lazy).

There were a lot of awesome interviews and footages such as the mic check, explanation of the sound canon, and how everyone with a camera can be a journalist. There were a lot of things to explore, but I decided that I prefer the video to be short and for the interviews to flow smoothly.

Will be great to see how other footages can be added into this and how this video can be remixed. Can't wait to see more edited videos of OWS. =)

This week's Regularity shines on with "RE:OCCUPY WALL STREET" and some killer RE-RECs! Let's keep creating Occupy REmixes. I finally went and RECorded a few hours of Occupy Wall Street footage, just as the NYPD had raided Zuccotti Park, where the movement had been centered.  All this footage is up on hitRECord ready to be downloaded and REmixed.  

Now, I'd like to gather a whole bunch of Occupy records, and start making art out of them.

Contribute your photos and videos of the demonstrations.  Whether in NYC, Oakland, Phili, or any other Occupied place.

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