So I made this dumbass video. A few months ago, I got overtaken with the idea of seeing John Krasinski shush people while “Don’t Speak” played in the background. I was intoxicated by the promise of this golden video, but I needed to prioritize my job hunt and freelance work, so I wrote the idea in a note in my phone and put it on the backburner.
Fast forward to last month, when I was hired as a Content Strategist (AKA Copywriter) at an Instagram management startup called SelfMade. With income in place, I now had the time to pursue my true passion: the video that would become “A Don’t Quiet Speak Place”.
My method was simple enough. I got a manipulatable version of the movie, and used iMovie to slowly trim it down to what I deemed useful scenes. Once I had that done, I acquired a manipulatable version of the song and continued to cut scenes and reorganize them into a coherent music video. I initially intended to make a video for the entire song, but:
I felt that that would get redundant.
I thought I might lose the attention of viewers.
For final touches, I used Photoshop to create the “Don’t Speak” title text in the font used on the cover of Tragic Kingdom, and slapped a title card at the end of the video bearing my logo. That’s it. This was pretty straightforward. Honestly, the movie did all of the hard parts for me. It was basically made for this.
Huge thank you to John Krasinski for making a movie about shushing, Gwen Stefani and No Doubt for recording a song requesting silence, and everyone involved for not making me take it down.