Blog #10

Now that I have completed the initial stages of my Final Project, I have realized that the two clips that I am remixing are perfect for what I am trying to accomplish. I began with a scene from the movie High School Musical 3 and mixed in a music video from the band Evermore. The video is for a song titled "Hey Boys and Girls (Truth of the World part 3)" and it depicts a group of adults dressed up as different professions (doctor, soldier, nurse) dancing on the set. This video helps illustrate the impact that mass media has on influencing young people to conform to societal standards in order to make money, thus allowing them to participate in a propaganda saturated culture in which they submit to the media giants to provide them with "Truth". Evermore created an imaginary drug called "Truthagen" to highlight the numbing effect that mass media culture has on children and adults alike.

Now all I need to do is further synthesize the two videos to fully reveal the similarities that entertainment has with mind control in our globalized world.

Final Project

For my final project, I would like to combine video and music media. I think its a great way to get a personal message across by combining these two popular forms of entertainment. I'm not quite sure yet what I want to do, but I think I'll have a much better idea after discussing it with my classmates. I think one of the biggest challenges will be finding two pieces that fit well together. Perhaps even using multiple movies clips with one song would work best for creating something interesting and new.

Another challenge will be to create something that makes sense to the viewer. With my remix project, I had to explain a lot of what I was doing, so in this next project I'll try to make the message more apparent without explanation.