Previous Proposal

My goal is to create a mashup using videos of people singing happy birthday. I originally thought of using unpopular/unknown YouTube videos in light of some other videos that did this that I thought were cool. But now I'm thinking of including movies references or other things. I kind of want each word of the song to be said by a different video cut. Another cool thing I wanted to add was the extensions of the happy birthday song that people come up with ("s/he looks like a monkey, and s/he smells like one too") and see how long we could go with that. Otherwise, it wouldn't be long enough. I may also try to transcend cultures with this work (i.e. happy birthday song in other parts of the world) and could do some theme with the clips I choose (e.g. age increasing, or something more meaningful). The biggest weakness to this project is that I'm only doing it because I think it would be cool; I need bigger intentions. Perhaps, after some thought, I can come up with something meaningful. Another concern was originality. I'm not sure if this has been done before, but I feel like it has. I tried to find something like it though and never did.

As for how I think this will spread, a bigger purpose would probably help with the spread of this. However, it would be something cool that people would just use as entertainment.