MAET Year 3 | Rouen | 2010

Remix Reuse Recycle – Quickfire Challenge

Remix culture is a term employed by Lawrence Lessig to describe a society which allows and encourages derivative works. Such a culture would be, by default, permissive of efforts to improve upon, change, integrate, or otherwise remix the work of copyright holders. Lessig presents this as a desirable ideal and argues, among other things, that the health, progress, and wealth creation of a culture is fundamentally tied to this participatory remix process. (via wikipedia)

A remix may also refer to a non-linear re-interpretation of a given work or media. Such as a hybridizing process combining fragments of various works. The process of combining and re-contextualizing will often produce unique results independent of the intentions and vision of the original designer/artist. Thus the concept of a remix can be applied to visual or video arts, and even things farther afield.  (via wikipedia)

Quickfire Main Activity:

In this activity, you will each be given a common set of Creative Commons video clips and music and will be asked to remix these clips.

In the spirit of creativity and learning on the fly – you will randomly be assigned a Learning Theory from the TIP database (http://tip.psychology.org/concepts.html) Do your best to keep your theme secret!!

Constraints:

Completed video may not exceed 30 seconds.

You may include your own text into the mix, but no additional video clips.

Video Clips – (taken from  http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger)

the Librarian – http://www.archive.org/details/Libraria1947

film research and learning – http://www.archive.org/details/FilmRese1956

choosing and educational film – http://www.archive.org/details/Choosing1963

basic typing – http://www.archive.org/details/basic_typing_1

facts about projection – http://www.archive.org/details/FactsAbo1975

education for excellence – http://www.archive.org/details/education_for_excellence_2

sharp calculator – http://www.archive.org/details/sharp_calculator_2

it happens every noon – http://www.archive.org/details/it_happens_every_noon

Audio Clips

http://www.electrobel.be/

http://opsound.org/index.php

you may use any other CREATIVE COMMONS music (but you must show proof that is is a creative commons clip!)

-Example-

- Associated Helpful Readings –
free culture – lessig  – http://free-culture.cc
Exploring the Right to Share, Mix and Burn – new york times – http://tinyurl.com/2hpff2
remix planet – wired – http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.07/gorillaz.html

ADDITIONAL CONSTRAINTS/TIPS -

iMovie/MovieMaker -The videos should be STANDARD (4:3)
Premiere – sequence preset DV-NTSC, Standard 48kHz

For exporting

iMovie – Share > Large
Premiere – File > Export > Media
Format = H.264
Preset Youtube SD

STEP 1: 30 MINUTES OF PLANNING AND THINKING (TIMED)
STEP 2: WRITE OUT YOUR EDITING WORKFLOW (TIMED)
STEP 3: STOP

STEP 4: BEGIN THE EDITING PROCESS

HAVE A COMPLETED VIDEO READY TO SHOW IN THE MORNING

Tags: creative commons, recycle, remix, reuse