Although we did not meet in class today, I spent some time this morning reviewing the remix assignment.  Something I noticed in the examples we were given to look at is that my favorite remix projects were the ones that took a really different approach to a story, or ones that incorporated a lot of multimedia elements, like graphics, sound, text, ect.

Some of my favorites that I looked at today was the Hunger Games Time Magazine project because of how unique it was and because I love reading magazines. The Don Quixote project incorporated humor and was actually quite cute and the Little Red Riding Hood one was cool because it looked like a crime board that you would see in an SVU episode. The Same Love and the Chamber of PostSecrets were definitely my favorites though. They were, in my opinion, extremely unique. I thought the Same Love project especially was really remarkable and took a historical event rather than a fairy tale store to retell in an interesting way, and I liked that the student made a montage of different news clips to tell an amazing and important story.

I usually didn’t enjoy the stories that didn’t have any sound as much or were more text heavy. They just weren’t interesting to look at. I definitely need to think more about wha I want to make my story about, but I think I want to try to do the something similar to the Same Love project and maybe retell a social movement or historical event. I just need a little more time to think, but hopefully by the time we get to class on Monday I’ll have a better idea of what I want to do.

Feel better, Traci!