Over the course of the semester my argument has changed from ‘We need to bring back the animation studios to Orlando’ to ‘We need to remember the animation studios and the legacy that they have left behind for us.’ We have grown up during the Renaissance period of Disney animation, and it is important for us to know that it is our job to preserve that legacy. Additionally, it is our job to keep an open mind and help inspire the future generations.
Documentary Script
Cyberspace is a place for people with different sexualities, race, and disabilities come together to share their different point of views. Via social media platforms these different groups can make social movements, trend important topics, and even remix cultural norms.
For the Twitter campaign, #BringBackOurGirls, helped increase media focus on the topic of the missing girls in Nigeria. However during the presentation it was noted that media awareness is not always a good thing. Attention does not always bring about action. Just using the hashtag did not bring back the girls that were kidnapped by terrorist. Some even stated that the tweets were useless since could only inform other Twitter users about the event, and to learn more Twitter users need to do further research.
In order to raise attention for the #BringBackOur Girl campaign Michelle Obama posted a picture of herself holding a sign with the hashtag. However, the Internet remixed the Internet to talk about the amount of lives that her husband has taken of women elsewhere in the world.
Another hashtag campaign #YesAllWomen reached out to a diversified audience and has been used an average of 1.2 million times. This hashtag is used to combat misogyny. However, a response hashtag has sprung up known as #NotAllMen.
To create a hashtag that will bring about a change phrasing is important. The phrasing should be all-inclusive. The creator needs to think about who can be excluded from the hashtag and how misunderstanding may occur.
After seeing other examples of the remixes I decided to redo my blog post. This time I added a classic song from the hit movie Dirty Dancing. This song itself has been remixed before, but I have used the original version of the audio. It shows the upbeat and happy times in the Orlando animation studio, and how it had a positive impact on the audiences that the films were developed for. Additionally, I changed the filter of the video to a black-and-white one to give it a historic aspect. However, I kept the motion picture clips in their colorful totality. Towards the end I have the closing of the animation studios in color, and a sober organ plays showing the heart-wrenching disaster that has befallen the studios.
For the Remix Project the different media that I will be analyzing are Hans Christian Anderson’s The Little Mermaid and Disney’s The Little Mermaid.
The different media changes the message of the work in different fundamental ways including: story, target audience, and delivery. For Hans Christian Anderson’s Fairy Tale version of The Little Mermaid the overall story is dark, and chilling. The target audience for the fairy tale is still children and young adults, but instead of bringing smiles to young children this is a tale of heartbreak and sorrow. On the other hand, Disney’s version of The Little Mermaid encompasses cheerful film with upbeat songs, lovable characters, and a happily remixed version of the original story.
In both stories the ‘Little Mermaid’ is the youngest of all her sisters, and her father is windowed.
However, in Hans Christian Anderson’s version once the mermaids turned 15 they were allowed to go to the surface, and they all loved it.
Both ‘Little Mermaid’s saved the prince from drowning.
However, the story about the statue of the prince is a little different. In the original version, the ‘Little Mermaid’ happens to frequent a statue garden and admires a statue and believes that the prince looks like one of the statues. In the remix, Eric is given a statue of himself as a birthday gift then it ends up in Ariel’s possession.
Both ‘Little Mermaid’s decide to make a deal with the sea witch to become human.
In the original, the ‘Little Mermaid’ had her tongue cut off to pay for the deal. And to brighten up the remix, Disney only made her lose her voice. After both ‘Little Mermaid’s were done making poor life decisions they became humans.
Unfortunately for Hans Christian Anderson’s ‘Little Mermaid’ her quest for her prince did not turn out favorably. In the end she casted herself out into the ocean, and she turned into sea foam.
On the other hand, Disney’s ‘Little Mermaid’ was able to transform into human to reunite with her prince. They lived happily ever after, and she didn’t turn into sea foam.
A statue was created in honor of the classic fairy tale of The Little Mermaid, and during the film Ariel takes on the iconic pose of the statue.
These changes affect the message of story from don’t give out your heart too easily to never give up on your dreams. The endings of the story as well as other elements changed, but overall the main story remained intact throughout the remixing process.
Both of these works would not work towards the same audience any longer since children would much prefer the happily singing Little Mermaid remix that common culture has grown to know. Compared the audience of the darker fairy tale, which would probably be young adults. Both works cater to the need for entertainment by showing love and misunderstandings. The main difference is the form in which the audience wishes the view the information, and the ending that they wish to receive.
The differences in audiences can be seen through simple gifs. From the terrified audience of Hans Christian Anderson’s fairy tale verses Disney’s audience of this featured length film.
When remixed by a new artist the work can lose the darker elements that were used as teaching elements. However some things that are gained through remixing are new life lessons, and renewed interest in the original work.
The whole story by Hans Christian Anderson can be found here
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