Test of Universality

The test of universality auto-karaoke generator. Can it be done? And what the hell for?

Phase I Mockup

• (DONE) Shoot footage of beach scene
  • QUESTION: Do we need more footage?
  • ANSWER: ...
• Compose cheesy karaoke music (brad)
  • QUESTION: How long does this need to be?
  • ANSWER: ...
• pick some basic lyrics from religious text not mentioning god, etc (?)
  • QUESTION: Where from on the internet?
  • ANSWER: ...
• Edit all together (lu)
  • QUESTION: How long and how many videos?
  • ANSWER: ...

Phase II Realtime

• Go to K-TV and see other footage, buy some k-tv DVDs in Guangzhou (deerfang + rejon)
• Shoot more cheesy karaoke footage to match the cheesy footage (deerfang)
  • QUESTION: How much footage do we need?
  • ANSWER: ...
• pull cheesy midi from some source on the internet (brad + rejon)
  • QUESTION: might it be easier to just compose some original cheese for this?
  • ANSWER: ...
  • QUESTION: What source for the cheesy midi internet?
  • ANSWER: ...
• pull cheesy religious texts from somewhere and put as subtitles on video (rejon)
  • QUESTION: Where will we get these from?
  • ANSWER: ...
• develop code to auto-generate the karaoke (rejon + brad)
  • QUESTION: How to do this?
  • ANSWER: Could do in processing or PD, or clutter?