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Creative Sharing – Lil Crazed

Tools used:

Windows Movie Maker

Video Converter

My camera (Fujifilm A220 A230)

To make this video, I used video clips off of YouTube and used the Video Converter to cut apart the videos and extract the parts I wanted to use for it. I also have songs of his downloaded onto my laptop that I put in for background in some parts. I also took screenshots of pages (YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter) to identify the number of subscribers/followers/likes he has. My favorite part of this was going to the concert on Saturday at Baruch College and got to record a quick interview and the performance you see in the video.

One problem that was particularly troublesome was that the videos I recorded on my camera were not in a format that was best suited for Windows Movie Maker. The files would constantly make the program close instantly. I researched it and found out what format is best suited for Windows Movie Maker and converted my files and after that it was all smoothly running. I ran into an additional problem early in the video with the transition between the first scene and the next as you will see.

I created this video because the music I love is the music off of YouTube. I’ve followed YouTube artists for about 3-4 years now and many people discount the music because they think its just “some kid being a fake rapper.” But social media has made this something much more. As Lil Crazed said himself, he is grateful for social media giving him the opportunity to do what he loves. There are other YouTube artists that have millions of fans and slowly, social media lets others get to interact with these people and they make an effort to respond to any and all people, fans or “haters.” They also realize that they would not be who they are without their fans so they are always thankful to meet all the fans they can and help them whenever they can, like he did for me.