When Cloud becomes the bad ass

Product

I edited the movie "Final Fantasy Advent Child" and made it into a totally different story. I use the Adobe Premiere Pro to extract clips I want and remix them in an intended order to make it seems like our hero Cloud is the bad ass and he left his original world after his defeat. In order to make the story more compiling, I record myself to be a storyteller and add transitions between different scenes. 

Intention

I've watched a kind of video that shorten a movie into less than 10 minutes and cover all of the "stories". However, the story in the short version is somewhat twisted in a way that it has a totally different focus from the original story or it presents a different story out of the original clip. So I decided to tell another story by using clip manipulation and show people a different perspective of a story.

As my preferred name suggested, I'm a huge fan of Cloud Strife from Final Fantasy 7. Cloud is the hero in the movie "Final Fantasy Advent Child". Since he was made to be the hero that saved the city and cured all the sick children, I was always wondering how I can make Cloud looks like a bad ass.

Context

As soon as I read the handout of this assignment, the very first thing that popped into my head was a series of short videos that spoil movie plot to the viewer but in a hilarious (even though the movie might be serious) and very twisted way that the movie doesn't looks like it was. 

Inspired by those videos, I was searching in my head for a movie that I'm most familiar with and that I want to twist the plot. Then Final Fantasy Advent Child came in- how would it be like if I turned my favorite hero into a bad guy? It should be fun.

Process

I first watched the whole movie one more time and went through all the possible stories I can twist. After a while I decided to make a reverse version of the story when after Cloud killed Sephiroth, the three little brothers seek for revenge.

Most of the challenge comes from clip selection because there are too many clips that I can use. But to keep the story short and tight, I have to make a lot of choices of whether this clip could stay in the track or kick it out of the way. Also, the challenge in designing the story is that I have to find the best plots where I can present Cloud in a bad ass way and Sephiroth in a position which he was unfairly killed by Cloud and want to have someone revenge for him.

Reflection

I'm pretty satisfied with this work because this is a good approach to twist one of my favorite story. However, if I were to do this project differently, I would probably mix two songs together- "What does the fox say?" and "I just had sex". Actually that was my first idea for this project, but since the two songs are actually not telling a story, I crossed them out of my mind. But I think it would be hilarious to mix those two songs together.

This project helps me realized that every story can be told in a different order so that the story sounds totally different from the one before and that I can have the ability to twist a story if I'm very familiar with that. So now I've got a whole lot of interesting things to do for fun.

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