DMDN 211 Project 1- Remix

First project of DMDN211: Remix

Source links:

http://www.archive.org/details/SadBoyInTheForest http://www.archive.org/details/jackalhyde_thesoulatwar
http://www.archive.org/details/WarwhatIsItGoodFor
http://www.archive.org/details/Fire_of_War
http://www.archive.org/details/Artisan949-FamilyDynamics873
http://www.archive.org/details/DreamEye
http://www.archive.org/details/eyevideoby_matt_swift

This movie is about a man recalls the war and the sad things while staring at gravestones

I used 7 clips to make this video, at first I just find some war clips and mix them together, then put a eye behind those clips to make it looks like a recall. After that, I think I have to introduce the charactor, so people will know whom the eye belongs to. In my second movie I put a clip that contains a person in it, he looks down the ground, then I put a gravestone clip after it. It looks like the person is looking at those gravestone and recalling. I also add a happy sence that is a family playing on the grass(to compare with the sad things). In my last movie I remove the family because I thought it does not make sence to the audience, and changed other things a little in my second movie(like some transparent effect). so it looks better than the second one.

Remix and Remixability

Remix and Remixability

Link: http://rhizome.org/discuss/view/19303

I strongly agree the author's state that " a person simplycopying parts of a message into the new email she is writing, and thelargest media and consumer company recycling designs of other companies aredoing the same thing they practice remixability." In my opinion, remix is such a common thing that we do it everyday.

Let us think about how do we grow up, it is not only about our body, but also about our brain, our thinking. We listen to other persons' opinion everydays, then we think about them and judge them, give up the parts that we think ae wrong and pick the parts that we think are right. then combine them with our own opinions. we repeat this everyday so our thinking become mature.
that is how we grow up, and that is remix.

The most basic thing of remix is information. that is why computer helps remix a lot, we use computers to get on Internet so that we can get huge amout of information. benefit from the tools like blog, forward and redirect function in email clients, RSS, web links which, Internet connects persons that dont know each other at all in real life. so the information and the ideas cross over the little circles of our life.

This article provides us a basic understanding and methods about where and how we get the stuffs for our project 1 : remixing.
But one thing that we have to concern is the copyright. only open resource is legal to be used.
this limits our design field, how to figure it out is what all the designer have to think about.