Monster mashup: A New York video artist relied on fan-created text transcripts of dialogue to help create a video-remix relationship between characters played by Robert Pattinson and Sarah Michelle Gellar.
Credit: Jonathan McIntosh’s remix: www.rebelliouspixels.com
How a remix was made--and how it could have been easier.
In June, after six months of editing, a New York video artist named Jonathan McIntosh finally released his opus: a six-minute video depicting an ill-fated relationship between lead characters of two unconnected TV shows: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Twilight.
Key to this effort, McIntosh says, was finding clips with the right bits of dialogue, so he could figure out how to convincingly interweave them. To do this, he conducted Google text searches of websites, such as twiztv.com, that carry fan-transcribed dialogue. But finding the spots on the videos where the dialogue appeared remained a laborious manual process.
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