I’ve wanted to do something with this scene since I saw it in my pre-semester binge-watch of “The Wire”. It’s a terrific use of photography and positioning, with very little sound and dialogue. Pretty much the only dialogue is a repeated epithet used with a variety of inflections and emphases. I replaced it with a cash register sound effect, to put an imaginary quarter into a Swear Jar. I did the video editing using Movie Maker, and added the sound effect in the appropriate spots with the Add Music tool. I increased the volume on the sound effect to drown out the expletive.
Enjoy!
Cash Register Sound – by kiddpark
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This is awesome! I just wish there was some kind of graphic superimposed on the screen that kept a running total.
Yeah, I had originally envisioned a F__kIt Bucket with a dollar sign on it, down in a lower corner and a dollar sign would drop into it each time you heard the cash register sound. Some sort of a superimposed Monty Pythonesque graphic thing over the movie, but I couldn’t figure out how to accomplish it. I’ll keep playing around with it, because I’d like to do something like it in my final project too. Stay tuned!
I’m with Paul, this is brilliant!