Walking Through the World

This is another teaser for the Walk My World project. I just had to use Marc Cohn’s song, and tapped into Mozilla’s Popcorn Video Maker to create a video with animated gifs.

Check out Walk Through the World


And I am adding some “Director’s Notes” as a sort of cross-reference to the YouShow project now underway:

I have long loved Marc Cohn as a songwriter, and this particular song from an early album has resonated with me over the years. It seems like a perfect fit for the theme of Walk My World, although he is writing more about a relationship than about media literacy. Still …. I first wanted to make a Zeega, but then could not find the song in Soundcloud. So, I went with Mozilla’s Popcorn Maker. I found the song in YouTube and layered it down, turning off the video and keeping only the audio. Then, I searched for “walking” in the Popcorn search engine, using the Giffy site as my main focus. I wanted it to be Zeega-like. I listened to the lyrics, adding in non-walking pieces where it seemed to fit (I loved the gif of the girl on her bed, reading, kicking her legs back and forth). I only used a verse and chorus (and wish Popcorn had a fade music button). I like how it came out.

Plus, here is a visual tutorial I made on using Popcorn Maker:
Using Popcorn Maker

Now, go make yer own! Or remix mine!
Peace (in the world you walk),
Kevin

3 Comments
  1. Way to show your work! Love the ‘off the hook’ image. Ever wonder if some of these gifs loose their original anchor. I know what a hanging phone means. I have seen a lot of mid-century noir, but does a gen Y or millenial get the same jolt as I do. Probably, but I loved it. Why is anime and Japanese animation in general so handy when doing these multi-modal ‘texts’? And the Popcorn tutorial is awesome. Show your work…then show others how to do their own work. If that ain’t a motto for 21st century teaching that you can put on a t-shirt, then I am Angry Walter.

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  2. I love popcorn !
    Love your animation too.

    The anime comes, I think, out of My neighbor Totoro.
    I like Ghibli’s work, especially when the music is by Joe Hisaishi, one of my favorite composers.

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