Due Date
Final Mashup Due 12/9
Description
The New Media Reader's CD-ROM includes various pieces of video footage, and this assignment asks you to create a mashup some of that footage. You should incorporate footage that you find online in order to transform the original video and in order to make viewers think about the original footage in a new way. Mashups do not necessarily step the audience through an argument. Rather, they explore connections and put the source material into conversation with other content. Your job is to somehow make this old footage new.
Your mashup can be no longer than two minutes.
Goals of the Assignment
While I will not be grading your mashup, I will be providing feedback. That feedback will be focused on whether or not you've addressed the following goals:
1) Your mashup should be transformative. It should find a way to make the source material new and to make us think about it in a different way.
2) Your mashup should show evidence that you've researched the original clip and that you understand its historical context. The best video mashups incorporate footage for a reason; they do not just combine footage at random. Your mashup should show us that you understand why the editors of The New Media Reader chose to include this clip.
3) Your work should make its case without the use of voice-over and without relying on text. Your mashup should make use of sound and image to show us connections between the source material and the footage that you've found during your research.