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KillingFrenzy
1st March 2003, 10:50 AM
I'm cobbling together my own novelty anti-war message video.

I need the following:
- Footage of a decisive or aggressive George Bush (as opposed to the blinky deer in the headlights look)
- Footage of troops preparing for war (all contemporary color footage, preferably desert fatigues)
- Footage of marching troops.(again with the color, modern stuff)
- Footage of protestors preparing for protests (modern, preferably actual protestors for this situation)
- Footage of largescale protests, especially marching.
- Footage of UN diplomats looking cranky

The problem is, I'm not much of a TV watcher and I get HORRIBLE reception. So, while most of this stuff is exactly what's on TV right now, I'm having a hard time getting anything very useable out of my local, crappy stations.

The novelty factor is what I'm going to edit/put a new video track to. I'm slowly getting bits and pieces, but I'm unhappy with the quality and just generally lame content I'm coming up with. I'm either grabbing it off the web, or via tv which is amazingly sparse if you don't have a totally dedicated news channel like a CNN to tap into. I suppose I could pay a news service for some footage, but that would add up really fast, and they don't let you preview footage like a stock footage house would.

Pmail if you want to help. I'll disclose more details, if you're interested.

I snooped around on the web quite a bit. Best thing I picked up were vids from the whitehouse.gov site of Bush talking to troops, but the quality is sketchy.

karmavideo
2nd March 2003, 05:19 PM
a crash - zoom to President Bush's eyebrows raising when he says a "big" word during a buildup in a track would be funny. Mabey stutter the clip on beat so each beat after the buildup would make his eyebrows raise or blink eyes or open mouth.

It'd be funny in my book! ;-)

As far as where you can find footage, mabey try the
GNN (gorilla news network) - they might have something a bit better quality then the US goverment.

Have fun

SilentEclipse
3rd March 2003, 04:15 PM
KF, I have friends who work here www.itnarchive.com
they do charge but I might be able to get you a good deal.
Pm if you are interested.

frank
5th March 2003, 04:55 PM
Hi KillingFrenzy,

here are some Footage-Pros (not free, but...)

http://www.wrightwood.com/military.htm

www.sekani.com

www.gettyone.com

http://www.artbeats.com/


Ciao Frank

viscountash
5th March 2003, 10:57 PM
in the UK i just walk into the nearest media-esque University and trawl through their videos. If i find something i like i input it into my sony DV cam for instant capture.

easy.

not sure about US security in Uni's / high schools ???? - ours are pretty lapse

mondo
11th March 2003, 12:54 PM
s'funny

all us uk vjs are planning to make their own vids using exactly the same sorta clips.

i recorded a load on the 6 o clock news just two nights ago.

quality ok - i kinda like it messy anyway!

:rolleyes: