It took me a very long time to figure out what to do for
this project, as I not only had to select a video type that draws from an old
piece of art, but I had to connect it with a specific aspect of my identity.
The identity was the hardest to get down, as I didn’t know what examples to
draw from that show remixing something for the same purpose. I knew the art I
was to choose was Orson Welles’ classic film Citizen Kane, probably my favorite classic film ever. That’s not an
aspect of my identity though, and neither is editing. I needed something that
was close to me, something that I could never be without.
Yesterday, it dawned on me. I have kept two journals from my
LDS church mission that record almost every single day of it. This can be an
example of my religion, and my writing style. I just selected a sentence from
one of the dates, then using that as a script, started searching through Citizen Kane to find the matching words
in that sentence. Then, all I did was cut out those moments which say the words
and arrange them in the right order.
This really was an example of taking something pre-existing
and turning it into something personal, as Jenkins writes in his book Television Fans, “The boy’s investment
in the toy will give it a meaning that was unanticipated by the toymaker.” I also found inspiration in different internet video artists such as Pogo, who takes different sounds and vocal gestures from movies, TV shows, and even real life interviews, and remixes them into techno songs to use at dance clubs. It is a huge thrill to see what different things can be produced from individual pieces of art we know so well.
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