Youtube is probably one of the most popular websites. People use it for all manner of things, but more often than not, it's to watch your favourite viral videos, sharing them with friends and discovering new ones. One of the reasons we love Youtube is for its users' talent for 'recycling' old films, tv shows and music, mashing them up and creating their own videos.
These amazing videos aren't purely original, and this series of posts is not about videos like 'Charlie Bit My Finger' or 'Ultimate Dog Tease' but rather, it celebrates the people who give whole new meaning to our favourite things.
Firstly, we'd like to introduce you to the world of Pogo. This guy basically takes your favourite films from the 1990s and early 2000s and makes them in to songs. But here's the catch. All of the sounds you hear are from the films themselves, he's cleverly added effects, pitch control and other editing to make some truly wonderful ambient pieces of music. If you haven't heard of him by now, you should really check his stuff out. Our personal favourites include (but are not limited to) 'Alohamora', 'Bloom' and 'Murmurs of Middle Earth'.
The thing that makes Pogo so interesting, is the sheer amount of work he must have put in creating the songs. Imagine trawling through one of the Lord of the Rings films, just looking for sounds you can use, and that's before you have to cut it together into something that sounds like music! Then the guy goes one step further by making a video for it, and syncs up the dialogue he uses (often just unintelligible clips) with the video. It's truly an art form.
The next people we're going to talk about are the people who make songs out of clips in films in a slightly different way. The two best examples are 'I've Got A Jar Of Dirt' and 'They're Taking The Hobbits To Isengard'. We reckon most people well-versed in memes will have seen both of these, but they're worth a mention! Videos like these are well done, but ultimately, just a bit of fun. Compared to Pogo, they're hardly going to be in our iTunes library (although I'm sure there are people who do download them!). It's not 'serious' music, but hey, it's good fun!
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