I’m no connoisseur of the creation of memes so this would be my first. I decided to go for a classic song, ‘Take on Me.’ I focused my work on this because it’s a great song, and I figured most people recognized the song. I used 4 different clips to mix this. I had to download them from Youtube, then use Premiere Pro to cut them down to size. I realized that Max has a minimum time required in order for a video to play. This limited my creativity because I wanted to have very short clips and mash them together to make a sequence of words, but it wasn’t possible because they wouldn’t play due to a limitation within the Max environment.

The theme of ‘Take on Me’. I tried to use clips that showed either an internal or external struggle, like the song lyrics suggest. So I chose a few of my favorite movie moments.

I had lots of technical issues with this project. I was unable to get Max to detect the Xbox controller on my Macbook Pro, even with installing the software, so I had to use a desktop in FL 222. But when I tried this, I had an issue with getting the keys on the controller to be detected. I discovered that I had to completely remake the code to run the controller, and it did work. This took a lot of time to figure out, but I think I have a good understanding of how the controller input works now.

Further, like I explained earlier, I had an issue with the short clips on my Max playback. Anything shorter than one second would often not play. So I had to extend the clips until they were long enough so that they would play. I also used a switch in my Max code, which wasn’t introduced in lecture. I use this to switch between ‘layers’ of video. I always wanted the Take On Me video playing in the background, so I had to develop a way to go between the take on me and other clips.

I created a little mix, and it’s functionally sound, I think I could add future items to it if I need.