Reflection

Briefly outline what you took away from this project. What did you learn? What would you do differently?

I had already created a video in my head that I only needed to implement using the tools I learned in class and online. However it wasn’t as easy as I imagined. Even though my project mostly involves cutting up, mixing and matching, it took a lot of effort to make the whole thing flow. I needed to count how many seconds the viewers would need to read the quote. I also had to give a lot of thought on where exactly I should cut the scenes, especially since most Disney scenes are so well made it’s usually pretty difficult to cut off even a couple of seconds out of them.

These processes made me realize that the remix is not just a remix; it’s an art. Everything depends on how you format things, including where you place the scenes, which parts you cutoff and which you include, what music you choose as a background and such. Depending on your intention, you can make the same video instructional, scary, or funny. This really was a valuable lesson for me, because I always thought remixing is just a waste of time, and only creating from scratch is real production and real art. But after this project, where I spend a lot of time trying to decide on these small points, I learned that that wasn’t true.