How does remediation connect to your personal life? Have you ever conducted a remediation without knowing it? How so? When? What was your purpose and your process?
I’ve definitely conducted some form of remediation, but I didn’t exactly know that’s what it was at the time. In my Drama II course in high school, my teacher wanted us to write a script based on any scene from a book of our choosing. Of course, the purpose of this was to expand our understanding of the dramatic process and not just see that realm in the scope of just acting. Another instance, as mentioned in our readings, is the concept of fanfictions. Yes, as embarrassing as it is, I wrote a few in high school as did a couple of my friends. This really had no academic purpose, we were just writing because we wanted to as an extracurricular activity. We enjoyed certain fictional worlds and wanted to experiment with the events and characters and constraints already put into place by the original author or creator.
For the script, the process was challenging in the fact that you had to convert text into something that required careful thought on movement and blocking. While you read, it’s easy to visualize things in your head, but you have to translate those movements into something that works for a stage in front of a live audience. For fanfictions, the media might be closely related if you’re drawing inspiration from a popular book. The real challenge is doing research and keeping certain established characters or settings pure and true to the original. People have come to love these people and places and if anything doesn’t feel authentic to a reader, they’ll certainly let you have it in the reviews.
I have probably done remediation in one format or another without realizing it, and I probably still don't realize a lot of remediation tasks that I've done in the past. The only thing I can think of was from 9th grade when my English teacher had us draw pictures of significant scenes from the book "Life of Pi". I remember we had to make a booklet with completely illustrated, completely colored backgrounds and they had to be "legible". I attempted to draw Pi in a carnivorous tree when he discovered that there were human teeth in these little buds. It resembled an oversized broccoli shaped object with a stick man holding green orbs with white dots in them. Crayons helped cover up my poor artistic skills. I think she mainly had us make these scenes so detailed because she wanted to make sure we actually read the material, that and she was 8 1/2 months pregnant and was in the habit of making very brash and unreasonable demands.
I've noticed other forms of remediation mainly in commercial ads. When the first Twilight movie came out, there were a lot of phone advertisements and a couple beer commercials based off of scenes from the original movie. There was also a parody movie called "Vampires Suck" which completely remediated the movie...it was actually really good.
Remediation has probably been used throughout my entire life without me actually knowing. Looking back on my youthful education, i have come to realize that many of the projects asked to be completed involved remediation. For example, in my freshman English class in high school we were to create a short movie from Shakespeare's play the Twelfth Night. We were to film and edit a short video with us acting out a certain scene. Changing the aspect of a written play into an actual video, set to music and title screens, really expressed a new medium of works and it made it easier to understand and watch as a audience. Another remediation that I have participated in was sophomore year, when my World History teacher asked us, as a class, to rewrite the ending to the movie The Last Samurai, whereas one side actually won, we were supposed to change history by choosing the outcome and how it would effect the rest of mankind. This process changed the medium of a movie script/video into an actual novel conclusion/ history book insert. This process not only made us more aware of what actually happened but gave us the change to change history which can be a fun process and method to use in such a class.
As a sophomore in high school in my english class we were studying the Holocaust and read novels including Night and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. After we completed both of the novels, we were given the task of creating a children’s book about the Holocaust. Although we were not directly recreating each of these novels, we used the general themes and ideas from each, or one of the two novels. I remember basing my children’s book off of Night. I didn’t realize then that it was remediation, but I see now that it was in fact a form of remediation. The process of creating a children’s book with the theme of the Holocaust was not an easy task. I frequently referred back to Night and went through a process to see what ideas and details of the Holocaust I should keep, leave out, or modify in my children’s book. The purpose of creating an age appropriate representation of the Holocaust and its events was not an easy task. The novels we read in class were geared towards an older audience, therefore they included more vivid details of the Holocaust. Although I could not keep all of these details in my children’s book, I found a way to get the ideas across without being too explicit for the younger audience.
I have used remediation often, though without necessarily realizing it. I think it plays a large role in everyone's life if they are even slightly creative. When I was a senior in highschool I was in theater so we used remediation all the time. We took the song from the movie Hocus Pocus and turned it into a senior add for year books which was a lot of fun. We used the same costume, broom, and words for the most part and created a kind of commercial. It took a lot of time but it was also a lot of fun.
Another time was when we were promoting the IB program for school and we took a song that wasn't very popular and made up a music video for it and presented it to the county to get more kids to come to the school for the program. That was lots of fun as well and took a ton of time and input.
We also got some of the teachers on video dancing to Lick it Like a Lollipop by Lil Wayne..... then we showed it on the end of the year video advertising the math department. I would like to think of that as the best kind of remediation :)
These projects help to inform students on the process of remediation even if they don't realize that;s what they are doing. It's fun and it teaches students to work hard in a school and work environment, which is always a plus.
Since most of my childhood took place in the 90s, I think it is safe to say that I was exposed to constant remediation during that decade. Like many girls my age I was raised on Disney movies. I didn’t know it back then, but the majority of my favorite childhood movies were Walt Disney’s remediated versions of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales. Although I think it is safe to say I enjoyed Disney’s endings much better.
I have definitely conducted forms of remediation in the past without knowing it. During my senior year of high school I was actively involved with TV productions and the morning announcements. Every month we would create video projects that had to do with the novel the student body was reading at the time. By taking older texts, such as Beowuf, and updating not only the genre but also the characters and dialect, my group and I were actively participating in creating remediation. Once we modernized the original version we would edit our videos and present them to our teacher in hopes that he would approve them to be aired on the morning announcements. By creating this new version we were allowed to connect the student body and spark interest in reading a text that otherwise seemed outdated to the majority of our student body.
Remediation connects in my life in regards to my love for theatre and, specifically, musical theatre. There have been so many times when I've seen text from a play, or a monologue from a movie and had to alter the scene to make it my own. Using similar characters or situations but limiting myself to just that and having to change absolutely everything else, including the setting. I think that represents remediation. No, it's not necessarily a new medium but I believe defining remediation by simply it's medium is cheapening the entirety of the concept.
Remediation is repurposing or remixing something that already exists. Musical theatre takes situations and creates a song for them to narrate what is happening and to add some cool dance breaks. But every show is interpreted differently by the director, especially those that are not quite so main stream. And theatre competitions have the same concept, altering that scene to specifically fit the skills of the performer and not the way that it was directly written.
To better understand what I mean, I should explain how much musical theatre impacts my life. When I can't find the words I need to explain how I feel, I use the songs I know and love and incorporate them into my own personal writing, sort of as specific breaks from the writing to break my stream of consciousness and elegantly say what I'm trying to. I even have song lyrics tattooed on my right side.
It may not be the traditional medium change that some seem to think remediation requires, but I do think of it as remediation. If something is changed in a way the original creator did not intend, I think that calls for the term remediation to come about.
I’m trying to think about a remediation that I have done and this might be a stretch but I play a lot of Call of Duty and have gotten to know the guns in the game pretty well. The only bad part about that is that the guns in the game aren’t called the same guns in real life. I know that this is going to be a big chance in remediation but I think it works. Well, my roommate knows a lot about guns, and I mean a lot. He knows a lot about guns, and when I say a lot, I mean he can make and model in about a 3 second clip of a video. So he was explaining to me a gun in real life that would be fun to shoot. As I continued to stare blankly at him, while pretending to understand every word he said, he caught on. He then smiled, and said “you know? It’s the gun that the SCAR is modeled off of in Call of Duty.” As embarrassing as this is to say, I could picture the exact gun he was talking about. So I go on about this little incident because this reminds of remediation. What Call of Duty has done for me is remediated the art of warfare so that I can take part in it on a daily basis. I am in no way trying to say that what I play on a game console is anywhere near anything that could possible go on in real life during real combat, but this does strike as a remediation of sorts. Another example is when my roommate took he knew and tweaked it a bit so that I could understand it also, he changed the medium through which we understood.
I think remediation is far more common in our lives than we commonly perceive. When we create, when we make something new, all those things don’t just pop out of nowhere. We base it on previous experiences, thoughts, and oftentimes on previous works we like or admire. When we base our creation on this last one, we’re participating in remediation. This isn’t something we begin doing in academic settings. No, it happens way before that. Who doesn’t remember making crayon drawings of their favorite TV characters’ as a kid? As dissimilar as the drawing might’ve been from the original, and as ugly as it might’ve turned out, isn’t this remediation? Or, when as kids, we dress up for Halloween as our favorite TV or book character. Isn’t this also remediation? Of course, through the years, and as we develop our critical thinking skills and open our minds to new forms of creation, we find new ways of remediation. The most recent I’ve partaken of that comes to mind was this summer. I decided, along with my best friend who’s also huge on photography, to remediate one of my favorite pieces of poetry, Pablo Neruda’s Poema 20, into self-portrait. We began writing a piece of the poem on a blank notebook, then on my arm all the way to my back so that it looked as if the words were flowing into my body. We took shots of it and remediated the poem into a photograph.
I think that remediation is a natural process that all people partake in at one point or another. Our society is so media driven that remediation occurs simultaneously with education and almost any creative endeavor, often without acknowledgement. As a child I would take my favorite movies or books and turned them into plays for my family. As i got older i would transform song lyrics into decorative emblems on my shoes or back pack. And even still older I have taken many songs, the one most frequently used being the theme song to the Fresh Prince of Bel-air, and replaced the words to create informative raps for school projects. Throughout the years these instances of remediation have mostly been imaginative personal expression or pedagogical projects and have gone completely unnoticed. I think that for a piece of creation to be successful it must evoke society to remediate it, and in that same respect, for a person to be an active and engaged member of society they must constantly remediate the world around them.
As a musician, I am often inspired by words and literature. I was studying the work of Langston Hughes, particularly his poem "My People", at the beginning of this past summer. Using the words "My People", I wrote a suite for a jazz quintet and a vocalist to deliver the words of the poem within a different artistic, and emotional, setting. I studied the poem for awhile last summer and knew I wanted to work with it in someway. Each movement of the suite is based on the emotion each of stanza. The suite centers around the words, even more so than the music. The musicians are expected to contribute and assist the lyricism of the poem through their playing. The movements of the suite are "cued" by the ending of each stanza, or phrase: that is, the suite never has a set length because it is dependent on the vocalist and their interpretation of the poem. It was important for me to remediate this piece because the work of Langston Hughes is indicative of my culture and history. The words of "My People" had a profound effect on me not only as a musician, but a human being.
I think that growing up in the generation that I did, I was exposed to remediation more then most. Anything from books being turned into movies, to songs being remade or remixed. Remediation is prevalent in every one's life now a days. There was a certain instance in 11th grade spanish were we had to do a group project. I didn't even realize it then but our project was a remediation of Frankenstein in spanish. The purpose of the project was to convey the story of Frankenstein in 5-7 minutes in video form. My partner and I remediated the book, to our own movie version and added a little parody in it as well. The class laughed and we both got A's.
I’ve definitely conducted some form of remediation, but I didn’t exactly know that’s what it was at the time. In my Drama II course in high school, my teacher wanted us to write a script based on any scene from a book of our choosing. Of course, the purpose of this was to expand our understanding of the dramatic process and not just see that realm in the scope of just acting. Another instance, as mentioned in our readings, is the concept of fanfictions. Yes, as embarrassing as it is, I wrote a few in high school as did a couple of my friends. This really had no academic purpose, we were just writing because we wanted to as an extracurricular activity. We enjoyed certain fictional worlds and wanted to experiment with the events and characters and constraints already put into place by the original author or creator.
ReplyDeleteFor the script, the process was challenging in the fact that you had to convert text into something that required careful thought on movement and blocking. While you read, it’s easy to visualize things in your head, but you have to translate those movements into something that works for a stage in front of a live audience. For fanfictions, the media might be closely related if you’re drawing inspiration from a popular book. The real challenge is doing research and keeping certain established characters or settings pure and true to the original. People have come to love these people and places and if anything doesn’t feel authentic to a reader, they’ll certainly let you have it in the reviews.
I have probably done remediation in one format or another without realizing it, and I probably still don't realize a lot of remediation tasks that I've done in the past. The only thing I can think of was from 9th grade when my English teacher had us draw pictures of significant scenes from the book "Life of Pi". I remember we had to make a booklet with completely illustrated, completely colored backgrounds and they had to be "legible". I attempted to draw Pi in a carnivorous tree when he discovered that there were human teeth in these little buds. It resembled an oversized broccoli shaped object with a stick man holding green orbs with white dots in them. Crayons helped cover up my poor artistic skills. I think she mainly had us make these scenes so detailed because she wanted to make sure we actually read the material, that and she was 8 1/2 months pregnant and was in the habit of making very brash and unreasonable demands.
ReplyDeleteI've noticed other forms of remediation mainly in commercial ads. When the first Twilight movie came out, there were a lot of phone advertisements and a couple beer commercials based off of scenes from the original movie. There was also a parody movie called "Vampires Suck" which completely remediated the movie...it was actually really good.
Kari Kitchen
Remediation has probably been used throughout my entire life without me actually knowing. Looking back on my youthful education, i have come to realize that many of the projects asked to be completed involved remediation. For example, in my freshman English class in high school we were to create a short movie from Shakespeare's play the Twelfth Night. We were to film and edit a short video with us acting out a certain scene. Changing the aspect of a written play into an actual video, set to music and title screens, really expressed a new medium of works and it made it easier to understand and watch as a audience.
ReplyDeleteAnother remediation that I have participated in was sophomore year, when my World History teacher asked us, as a class, to rewrite the ending to the movie The Last Samurai, whereas one side actually won, we were supposed to change history by choosing the outcome and how it would effect the rest of mankind. This process changed the medium of a movie script/video into an actual novel conclusion/ history book insert. This process not only made us more aware of what actually happened but gave us the change to change history which can be a fun process and method to use in such a class.
As a sophomore in high school in my english class we were studying the Holocaust and read novels including Night and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. After we completed both of the novels, we were given the task of creating a children’s book about the Holocaust. Although we were not directly recreating each of these novels, we used the general themes and ideas from each, or one of the two novels. I remember basing my children’s book off of Night. I didn’t realize then that it was remediation, but I see now that it was in fact a form of remediation.
ReplyDeleteThe process of creating a children’s book with the theme of the Holocaust was not an easy task. I frequently referred back to Night and went through a process to see what ideas and details of the Holocaust I should keep, leave out, or modify in my children’s book. The purpose of creating an age appropriate representation of the Holocaust and its events was not an easy task. The novels we read in class were geared towards an older audience, therefore they included more vivid details of the Holocaust. Although I could not keep all of these details in my children’s book, I found a way to get the ideas across without being too explicit for the younger audience.
I have used remediation often, though without necessarily realizing it. I think it plays a large role in everyone's life if they are even slightly creative. When I was a senior in highschool I was in theater so we used remediation all the time. We took the song from the movie Hocus Pocus and turned it into a senior add for year books which was a lot of fun. We used the same costume, broom, and words for the most part and created a kind of commercial. It took a lot of time but it was also a lot of fun.
ReplyDeleteAnother time was when we were promoting the IB program for school and we took a song that wasn't very popular and made up a music video for it and presented it to the county to get more kids to come to the school for the program. That was lots of fun as well and took a ton of time and input.
We also got some of the teachers on video dancing to Lick it Like a Lollipop by Lil Wayne..... then we showed it on the end of the year video advertising the math department. I would like to think of that as the best kind of remediation :)
These projects help to inform students on the process of remediation even if they don't realize that;s what they are doing. It's fun and it teaches students to work hard in a school and work environment, which is always a plus.
Since most of my childhood took place in the 90s, I think it is safe to say that I was exposed to constant remediation during that decade. Like many girls my age I was raised on Disney movies. I didn’t know it back then, but the majority of my favorite childhood movies were Walt Disney’s remediated versions of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales. Although I think it is safe to say I enjoyed Disney’s endings much better.
ReplyDeleteI have definitely conducted forms of remediation in the past without knowing it. During my senior year of high school I was actively involved with TV productions and the morning announcements. Every month we would create video projects that had to do with the novel the student body was reading at the time. By taking older texts, such as Beowuf, and updating not only the genre but also the characters and dialect, my group and I were actively participating in creating remediation. Once we modernized the original version we would edit our videos and present them to our teacher in hopes that he would approve them to be aired on the morning announcements. By creating this new version we were allowed to connect the student body and spark interest in reading a text that otherwise seemed outdated to the majority of our student body.
Remediation connects in my life in regards to my love for theatre and, specifically, musical theatre. There have been so many times when I've seen text from a play, or a monologue from a movie and had to alter the scene to make it my own. Using similar characters or situations but limiting myself to just that and having to change absolutely everything else, including the setting. I think that represents remediation. No, it's not necessarily a new medium but I believe defining remediation by simply it's medium is cheapening the entirety of the concept.
ReplyDeleteRemediation is repurposing or remixing something that already exists. Musical theatre takes situations and creates a song for them to narrate what is happening and to add some cool dance breaks. But every show is interpreted differently by the director, especially those that are not quite so main stream. And theatre competitions have the same concept, altering that scene to specifically fit the skills of the performer and not the way that it was directly written.
To better understand what I mean, I should explain how much musical theatre impacts my life. When I can't find the words I need to explain how I feel, I use the songs I know and love and incorporate them into my own personal writing, sort of as specific breaks from the writing to break my stream of consciousness and elegantly say what I'm trying to. I even have song lyrics tattooed on my right side.
It may not be the traditional medium change that some seem to think remediation requires, but I do think of it as remediation. If something is changed in a way the original creator did not intend, I think that calls for the term remediation to come about.
I’m trying to think about a remediation that I have done and this might be a stretch but I play a lot of Call of Duty and have gotten to know the guns in the game pretty well. The only bad part about that is that the guns in the game aren’t called the same guns in real life. I know that this is going to be a big chance in remediation but I think it works. Well, my roommate knows a lot about guns, and I mean a lot. He knows a lot about guns, and when I say a lot, I mean he can make and model in about a 3 second clip of a video. So he was explaining to me a gun in real life that would be fun to shoot. As I continued to stare blankly at him, while pretending to understand every word he said, he caught on. He then smiled, and said “you know? It’s the gun that the SCAR is modeled off of in Call of Duty.” As embarrassing as this is to say, I could picture the exact gun he was talking about. So I go on about this little incident because this reminds of remediation. What Call of Duty has done for me is remediated the art of warfare so that I can take part in it on a daily basis. I am in no way trying to say that what I play on a game console is anywhere near anything that could possible go on in real life during real combat, but this does strike as a remediation of sorts. Another example is when my roommate took he knew and tweaked it a bit so that I could understand it also, he changed the medium through which we understood.
ReplyDeleteI think remediation is far more common in our lives than we commonly perceive. When we create, when we make something new, all those things don’t just pop out of nowhere. We base it on previous experiences, thoughts, and oftentimes on previous works we like or admire. When we base our creation on this last one, we’re participating in remediation. This isn’t something we begin doing in academic settings. No, it happens way before that. Who doesn’t remember making crayon drawings of their favorite TV characters’ as a kid? As dissimilar as the drawing might’ve been from the original, and as ugly as it might’ve turned out, isn’t this remediation? Or, when as kids, we dress up for Halloween as our favorite TV or book character. Isn’t this also remediation? Of course, through the years, and as we develop our critical thinking skills and open our minds to new forms of creation, we find new ways of remediation. The most recent I’ve partaken of that comes to mind was this summer. I decided, along with my best friend who’s also huge on photography, to remediate one of my favorite pieces of poetry, Pablo Neruda’s Poema 20, into self-portrait. We began writing a piece of the poem on a blank notebook, then on my arm all the way to my back so that it looked as if the words were flowing into my body. We took shots of it and remediated the poem into a photograph.
ReplyDeleteI think that remediation is a natural process that all people partake in at one point or another. Our society is so media driven that remediation occurs simultaneously with education and almost any creative endeavor, often without acknowledgement. As a child I would take my favorite movies or books and turned them into plays for my family. As i got older i would transform song lyrics into decorative emblems on my shoes or back pack. And even still older I have taken many songs, the one most frequently used being the theme song to the Fresh Prince of Bel-air, and replaced the words to create informative raps for school projects. Throughout the years these instances of remediation have mostly been imaginative personal expression or pedagogical projects and have gone completely unnoticed. I think that for a piece of creation to be successful it must evoke society to remediate it, and in that same respect, for a person to be an active and engaged member of society they must constantly remediate the world around them.
ReplyDeleteAs a musician, I am often inspired by words and literature. I was studying the work of Langston Hughes, particularly his poem "My People", at the beginning of this past summer. Using the words "My People", I wrote a suite for a jazz quintet and a vocalist to deliver the words of the poem within a different artistic, and emotional, setting.
ReplyDeleteI studied the poem for awhile last summer and knew I wanted to work with it in someway. Each movement of the suite is based on the emotion each of stanza. The suite centers around the words, even more so than the music. The musicians are expected to contribute and assist the lyricism of the poem through their playing. The movements of the suite are "cued" by the ending of each stanza, or phrase: that is, the suite never has a set length because it is dependent on the vocalist and their interpretation of the poem.
It was important for me to remediate this piece because the work of Langston Hughes is indicative of my culture and history. The words of "My People" had a profound effect on me not only as a musician, but a human being.
I think that growing up in the generation that I did, I was exposed to remediation more then most. Anything from books being turned into movies, to songs being remade or remixed. Remediation is prevalent in every one's life now a days. There was a certain instance in 11th grade spanish were we had to do a group project. I didn't even realize it then but our project was a remediation of Frankenstein in spanish. The purpose of the project was to convey the story of Frankenstein in 5-7 minutes in video form. My partner and I remediated the book, to our own movie version and added a little parody in it as well. The class laughed and we both got A's.
ReplyDelete