Remixing: A Primer

To help you figure out how you might remix/recontextualize/re-envision/mash-up etc. the text that you've chosen for this assignment, here are a number of different processes or approaches you might try out.

Adding - take something, and add something else to it

 

Cutting - take something, and then cut some things out of it...

...and then maybe, reassemble those things into something new...

.

Manipulating - take something and change its form, but not its content...

...for example, slow it down...

...or...(actually, I don't even know how to describe this...)

Covering - take something and re-make it...

...maybe in a different medium...

 

...or a different style...

 

...or maybe in a different genre...

...which leads us to...

Mashing - take something and combine it with another thing

"There Goes the Neighborhood" by Coran Stone

Revising - take something and change its content...

...for example, swapping the genders of the main characters...

 

Expanding - take something and add more to its content...

"Snowy" from Fallen Princesses by Dina Goldstein

De-centering - look at something from another perspective from within that something

Star Wars: Tag and Bink are Dead from Dark Horse Comics

Iron Man fan fiction by obsession_inc - read it here

Recontextualizing - take something and put in a new place, time, circumstance

"BERNABE MENDEZ from the State of Guerrero works as a professional window cleaner in New York   He sends 500 dollars a month" from Superheroes by Dulce Pinzon

Transforming - take something and make it something entirely new (yet still kind of the same)

Also, this is a cool, related resource from Jonathan McIntosh (the guy behind Buffy vs. Edward, etc.)

A history of subversive remix videos before YouTube: Thirty political video mashups made between World War II and 2005 - by Jonathan McIntosh