For my final project, I knew I wanted to do a movie. Me and Randy had a really good idea, but it seemed like it was going to be really hard to pull off, and I didn’t feel like we were gonna get it done, so I just decided to do my own thang and do a movie on one of the first ideas I had.

My original idea was to make a music video…kinda. I was going to make a techno song of my own in Fruityloops, the program I used to sample the drums for my second project. Then, I was going to film a music video for it, and the whole idea was I would walk down the street, through the grocery store, wherever, with a boom box that was playing my song, and everyone I passed would start doing the robot. It sounded funny, but it seemed like too boring of an idea to me. There was only so much I could do with it. So, I took that idea and decided to find more things to me that made humans “robot like”. I came up with four different ideas, wrote sketches for them, and shot them. The cameras were done by me, Randy, and my girlfriend Briana.

It only took me six hours to edit this movie, and in the end I was really happy with it. I even threw in a Dona Haraway (author of the Cyborg Manifesto) quote for good measure. Again, I was really nervous to show this to the class, but to my surprise, everyone laughed when I had intended them too. I got a lot of really good feedback and decided I need to go back and change some things. A week later I went in and did some more editing, for the most part following Sandy’s advice to “make it tighter.” This is the final version.

The basic concept of this short is me trying to prove that humans are naturally cyborgs, without actually being combined with a machine. I took that idea and just made a big joke out of it. The video explains the rest. Enjoy.



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"WE, cyborgs"
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