I really have nothing to go on for this tutorial. I’m not familiar with and don’t feel personally connected to any political issue at the moment, except maybe voter apathy, and I find that trailer re-cuts strike me as a gimmick more often than not. Ideally I’d like to do both. A trailer re-cut with a message of some sort.
I really liked the idea that remix allows for an uncovering or commentary on fixed social/cultural histories. I like that we’re creating archives that contextualize and comment on these stand-alone phenomena that characterize our culture. It’s kind of an indication that there were real people living real lives thinking deep, critical thoughts. It’s really what allows you to relate to previous generations and the overarching human story, the fact that people cared about what was going on at some level.
Don’t really have any media that comes to mind here, pretty uninspired by the topic to be perfectly honest
NOTES
-Perpetuate the spectacle of popular media by simply parroting ideology or in some cases transforming progressive works of art into juvenile internet memes.
-digital remix needs a taxonomy for major trends
-Political OR Trailer remix?
-using the weight of the enemy against himself, mash up to have people say quotes with many words out of context
-remix allows for an uncovering or commentary of fixed social/cultural histories
-remixers work within the landscape their commenting on
-Trailer remixes as a surrealist technique?
-overdubbing is common
-only the privileged creating historical documents is changing..
-is mash-up a destruction?