Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Barack Roll - How I made it

Again, a big thank you to everyone for commenting on the blog and posting the videos. This thing keeps spreading much further and faster than I would have thought possible.

A number of people have asked how I tracked down the source words for my Barack Roll video, and one or two have correctly guessed that I used Google's new Elections Video Search gadget.

For the two earlier videos in the same style, "Changes" and "I'm F*cking Obama", I had compiled a very large text file containing transcripts of all of the Presidential Debates and simply searched for the words I needed.

This was a pretty slow and inefficient process - it would take a lot of jumping around in the video to get to the right spot.



I'd been thinking about doing a Barack Rolling video for a couple of months, but it just wasn't feasible to do by that method - it would have taken too long and the right words just weren't there. Luckily, I chanced upon a post about the Elections Video Search gadget on the official Google blog. Essentially, it uses word recognition software to make political youtube videos searchable. It's not perfect and it still took a number of days of work, but it's a huge improvement over trawling through debate transcripts.

21 comments:

James said...

One of the best kept secrets of iGoogle. :D

Maren said...

Got here from http://hernashville.com/category/blogs/her-chic-geek Just wanted to say your humor and wit is hilarious! Keep the videos coming!

Sophie Pilgrim said...

Hi Hugh

I'm a journalist at France 24 in Paris. We're posting your Barack Roll video on the site today as it's number one on the viral chart (congrats!). Is that ok? Can I also quote you on how you made it?
And maybe have a photo of you to go alongside??

Cheers,

Sophie
spilgrim@france24.com

elasticwaistbandlady said...

My favorite Houston morning talk radio guys were discussing how brilliant you are. They also put your video up on their blog at patgray.com

F Daum said...

Although it plays on dumbed down, sound byte, hyper image per sec. culture, it doesn't really work for me (I think the hyper image sound byte culture trivializes key issues like he Iraq War, economy, immigration, environment & nuclear proliferation).

Anyhow I suppose if you're hip to memes you wouldn't want to have used McCain for a McCainRoll version (that would be really making fun). ;)

Anonymous said...

Hi,

Very nice, your videos travel around the globe.

To seach in audio/video you can use also http://search.everyzing.com - maybe you know already about it.

My best,
Carmen

Alberto Cespedes said...

Amazing videos. Very inspiring. I've got an idea for a video... I'll show you when I'm done. Keep them coming.

Anonymous said...

the video was incredible! thanks!

Anonymous said...

Wow, that's a really great video, and I've always loved that song too... great combo!

Wanted to direct your attention to a hip hop music video I just completed this week... as an editor, I figured you'd appreciate it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI20MIXB7Yo

H E Pennypacker said...

Holy Crap, so Google now has a search tool for this stuff.

My M.O. is just to do what you described, compile videos in the vain hope that there might be some bit of dialogue you can twist into something funny

Outstanding video BTW

Cheers
(N0NEoftheAB0VE)

Gabriel the Marine said...

Hello Hugh,

I didn't know how else to contact you, so I hope this is appropriate. Anyway, I'm in an Indie Rock band from New York called Gabriel the Marine (myspace.com/gabrielthemarine). We tour, we play music festivals, we're producing a record with a relatively revered producer. But we were wondering if you could help us. If you would include our single, "Maybe Baby" in one of your next videos in the future and give us a credit it would really help us and be really appreciated. If you're interested, let me know by emailing me at gabrielthemarine@gmail.com Thanks so much.

All the best,
Dylan Ebrahimian

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