The purpose of my MASHUP is to bring attention to child obesity and to whom should take the blame. Obviously, the “blame” is different in every situation. It could be put on the parent, the child, or even heredity. In any case, someone always wants to put the blame on someone or something other than themselves. The Childhood Obesity public service announcement has children using sarcasm saying that being obese is their fault but subtly directing the blame to their parents who are teaching them these bad habits. The images contradict the view that it is the parents fault by depicting children and young adults voluntarily acting in this manner.
I justify my MASHUP to regard fair use because of the hint of sarcasm in the children’s voices. If a person were to take the words from the commercial literally, they might think that my images simply reinforce the message. If you can hear the sarcasm in the voices and see the children cross their arms in anger (as they do in the commercial), you can see that they don’t think they are at fault. The PSA is entitled COAK (Coalition of Angry Kids). This is transforming the commercial by showing the opposite of what the children believe, thus creating Fair Use.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzDZKUsSCSM
Kacie, I thought it was clever to pair the audio with the video. I like the thought behind how much children eat today and obesity problems arising in today's society. This mashup would hold in up court due to your original spin on the audio paired with the video. This mashup works for me, because it had thought behind it and it made sense. To make it better, you could have added more clips of really obese children that have huge health issues, but I thought it was really clever!
ReplyDeleteKacie, you pretty summed up everything I was going to say in your explanation about your mashup and why it would stand up to fair use. I was just about to say that it just reinforces the point with images, but i watched it again and was just smiling the whole time because I realized just how sarcastic they were. My favorite line was "but not the parents of America, they can do no wrong". Good job on the mashup.
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