Option B – ffmpeg (command line)

# Create the export folder if it doesn't exist
mkdir -p exports

    

  • Testimony and witness: The series may function as a repository of lived experience—youth narrating trauma, resistance, or everyday life. Reagan’s episode might be read as testimony, with the medium shaping credibility and intimacy.
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  • Performance and identity-making: Alternatively, the work may stage performance—lip-syncs, monologues, stylized persona work—exploring how youth craft public identities for audiences.
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  • Archival critique: The file-name-as-label invites a meta-reading about archiving practices: what gets saved, how subjects are indexed, and who controls provenance.
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  • Media archaeology: The .wmv format allows a historical inquiry into early digital cultures—how form shaped content, and how formats encode social practices of sharing and preservation.
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: It isn't what the title suggests. There are no faces. Instead, it’s a high-contrast, grainy shot of a suburban street at dusk, filmed from a moving car. The streetlights are orange smears against a deep indigo sky. The "107" refers to the house numbers passing by, blurred and glowing.


YoungThroats_107_Reagan/
│
├─ source/
│   └─ YoungThroats_107_Reagan.wmv   ← original, untouched
│
├─ work/
│   └─ YoungThroats_107_Reagan_trimmed.wmv
│
├─ exports/
│   ├─ YoungThroats_107_Reagan.mp4                ← main export
│   ├─ YoungThroats_107_Reagan_subtitled.mp4      ← optional burnt‑in subtitles
│   └─ YoungThroats_107_Reagan_1.5Mbps.mp4        ← compressed version
│
├─ subtitles/
│   └─ YoungThroats_107_Reagan.srt
│
└─ logs/
    └─ conversion_log.txt   (copy‑paste of ffmpeg output)



Reagan: This refers to Ronald Reagan, the 40th U.S. President. Its inclusion often points toward a thematic focus on 1980s politics, Reaganomics, or the cultural shift of that decade.