Goats

Lillian and I worked together to make humorous mash ups of well known music videos and clips of goats shrieking like people. Like other youtube users have done with various music videos such as Taylor Swifts 'I knew you were trouble':

We used windows movie maker to make the mash up. This was a pretty simple program where we had to initially upload our chosen video, which we decided would be Britney Spears' 'If you seek Amy'. We then chose places were a goat screaming would be funny and unexpected. We cut out the section where the goat should go, then replaced it with the goat.


We used a range of social networking sites to achieve maximum youtube hits. We posted a link to the video on sites such as Twitter, Facebook and MySpace in the hope that our friends/followers would watch the clip.
Unfortunately, when people tried to watch our video, they were shown this page:

So the video was taken down due to a breach of copy rights and we are not authorised to use Britney's video to create our own material. Although some of our classmates videos were not taken down, this is because different music companies have different policies and some companies see videos like this as beneficial to the song as people watch it, video it amusing and then are more likely to download the song. This is otherwise known as grassroots activity.
I really enjoyed this task and look forward to having another attempt at making a video like this and I hope it will not be banned as due to the copyright issue I did not get to see how successful our marketing plans worked.