Welcome to our second post in the Virtual Mentor series! I first met filmmaker and Webby Award-founder Tiffany Shlain at SxSW in Austin, TX where we shared a table at the Huffington Post’s Women’s Dinner. After seeing her feature documentary, Connected, I fell in love with Shalin’s signature filmmaking style of animation mashed up with archival footage. We became fast… Read more →
Background extras always interest me: it’s the necessity of their invisibility that I relate to because I always found the dynamic similar to editing. With editing, shots are arranged to support the progression of the story so that the editing technique doesn’t call attention to itself. The goal of editing – and being an extra – is to render yourself invisible and unobtrusive. The… Read more →
Sung by your favorite female characters, Mad Men: Set Me Free is a musical mash up by Marc Faletti (@marcfaletti) and I (PopCulturePirate). As Peggy, Joan and Betty sing the MoTown hit “You Keep Me Hanging On”, the entirely female-framed version of Mad Men becomes an entertaining and refreshing re-articulation of female frustrations amidst rigid gender roles. “We love that feeling when two familiar pieces… Read more →
In the remixed narrative, QueerMen: Don Loves Roger, the two patriarchs weigh the costs of coming out of the closet and decide they can afford it. The goal was to tell a story about two men who once preserved concepts of manhood and masculinity but then found relief and happiness in each other, becoming a threat to the very same patriarchal system on which their… Read more →
In or out of context? That’s the question. How much should the audience relate to the original story and how much should they take out of context when it comes to remix? I rely on the phrase remix storytelling when describing one-source remix works because I’m building a new narrative from scratch. But remixing requires using pop culture clips in… Read more →
