Webspinna Battle!

Opening Theme

Help me Obi Wan Kenobi

Darth Doody





The ways of the force

Religions and Ancient Weapons




Imperial March

I am Your Father

Seen His Face




Red October Standing By

All clear kid

Explosion




Final Theme

Chewbacca Roar

Perfectly Alright

When I chose to build my Webspinna around Star Wars I did so simply because I thought it would be the most fun to create. I think I was right. My objective with the audio clips I chose to use was simply to recreate the plot of Star Wars through sound. I picked very significant parts of the film and found sounds that would be easily recognized by anyone. For the most part I followed the general plot in its chronological order, with a few twists for humor or purely for fun. An example would be the clip from The Empire Strikes Back when Vader proclaims, “I am your father.” This line is not a part of the original film, but was too iconic for me to exclude. I also chose a line from Han Solo that occurs in the middle of the film but I placed it at the end simply because it’s my favorite line and I thought it would be a great way to conclude my mix. This attempt to be mostly chronological was in response to our reading. When reading DJ Spooky’s page, I honestly went a little crazy. I felt the disorder could work for him, but if I wanted to successful navigate my page, I needed a little bit of order.

The majority of my clips came directly from the film, but a few were borrowed from other sources such as Family Guy. I thought this would be a good way to mix the clips because Star Wars is so iconic that there have been countless copies of it or references to it. I decided to combine the two in order to point out the fact that it’s not just a movie that was extremely popular, but it is something that is engrained into our culture – it’s a fixture that will never be removed. It’s actually a piece of us as though we have all been to that far away galaxy a long time ago. And most of us are so familiar with the lines that when we hear one with even a single word changed, we can tell the difference. So I threw in a few to make it fun.

Star Wars vs. Harry Potter was something we really enjoyed because they’re both very iconic and actually incredibly similar to each other when compared closely. So when pairing sounds we took parts that were similar to each other to compare them, to point out the similarities. I actually received a little inspiration on that section from a joke by Aaron Woodall, a fellow Humor U comedian of mine. Watch it

here if you like.

As far as the actual performance goes, I feel that Libby and I did well. We rehearsed a few times, and it never went well, but when we stepped in front of everyone, we only had one little goof so I think that we did very well. I certainly gained a whole new respect for DJs who can go out and make things happen on the spot in front of people. It’s pretty incredible. When it came to costume selection I went with greatest character to come out of the franchise: Han Solo. It's was a pretty simple choice - just be as cool as possible.