Remix This

The first thing we were asked to do these weeks was the same as the first thing we are asked to do every week. We are to review and browse through resources of the form of media that we will be working on for that week(s). I usually enjoy this portion because you get to see various resources and their different takes on that specific form. This week we were also asked to review examples of remix assignments that had been done by previous students. I really enjoyed this part because it was really cool to see what previous students had done and many of them were really funny and interesting!

Remix Blender Time!

So one of the most interesting parts of these two weeks was remixing/mashing up two assignments. We had to follow the links and instructions to a very specific part of the ds106 website. Once there, we had to click the blender icon and it would bring up a remix assignment along with another assignment that would give a twist on the first one. The first time I clicked the blender, the assignments worked really well together. The remix assignment was to create a YouTube duet with two songs that work really well together. But the second assignment was called “The Opposer.” So in some way, it didn’t matter what, I had to do something that would go against the assignment. So I decided to do the YouTube Duet, but choose two songs that sounded horribly when put together. Go here and tell me what you think of my choices!

Recycled Media

I really enjoyed doing this assignment this week. During Weeks 7 and 8, we had to submit a few examples of pieces of media that we had planned on using in our assignment from the past, but ended up never using them. So for this assignment, we had to choose at least 7 pieces of media (had to be in at least 2 different forms, I used photos and audio) and create a story out of them. I think mine came out pretty well, go check it out here and tell me your opinion!

Remix Assignments

I completed two Remix Assignments this week. I enjoyed creating both assignments this week because they weren’t too complicated and didn’t take an extremely long amount of time. The first assignment I completed was Actor Transformation worth 4 stars and I used Dakota Fanning for this. The second assignment I completed was Recycled Media for 3 stars and I also really liked that. I created a great story about I day I spent with my daddy So I’m 7/7 for the week!

Reflection

I really like the idea of mashup/remix. Literally so much stuff in our world is a remix or mashup of something else that has previously been done. You can see it in all of the examples of previous work that I review in my RemixThis blog post and also in all of the other ones completed. You can see it everywhere around us. A great example in music is Pitbull’s “Back in Time” which uses a part of a song in the soundtrack of the famous movie Dirty Dancing. Remix/mashup definitely has a huge spot in culture and media. Everyone everywhere is remixing things from the past and making in their own.