The purpose of my mash-up is to draw attention to the mixed signals that girls get about beauty when they are growing up. Sometimes, we are told beauty matters, sometimes we are told that its what's on the inside that counts. I found two commercials for a show about beauty pageants and thought they would work perfectly. They show the two girls being made up to be what society tells us is "beautiful." I played the second clip backwards because I think the little girl's face at the end says a lot. I used audio clips off of three different videos I found about beauty and the pressure to be beautiful. I don't think we always realize how these societal conceptions of beauty affect young girls, and all women for that matter.
I believe that my mash-up would hold up under fair use because I transformed the videos thourgh the audio I put with them. The videos themselves are meant to advertise a show documenting young girls and the moms going through the pageant process- it isn't necessarily a critical show. I didn't really want to say anything about pageants, I wanted to focus on beauty. It's kind a strange to see the girls be made up to look like little women. I thought this illustrated how they grow up seeing older women trying to be beautiful and then follow in those footsteps. When the voiceover at the end says, "Do you want me to grow up wanting to look like someone else? I don't think so." I thought this illustrated my point perfectly. I am essentially critiquing how society puts pressure on girls and women to look a certain way. When girls grow up in this society, it can have large effects on their perceptions of their own beauty. This is a completely different point than that of the original clips.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a9Y4_lqhDs
I love that multiple people in this class grasp this concept.. granted, you're a woman. but have you watched Ryan Stefani's mashup? it's great. I love yours, too. I strongly think that this one could hold up to fair use. It's definitely saying something about our culture. And the audio greatly transforms the video. Great job. The one thing I like the most is definitely that it's not just women being "beautified", but it's younger and younger girls every generation that passes. This portrays that beautifully.
ReplyDeleteBtw, the line "we're not going to put someone ugly on our cover, it won't sell" just disgusts me. Those children are adorable.
I think this mash-up is a great representation of a creative work constucted from found media types. This video seems like it could be classified under fair-use because it transforms the meaning me might have gotten with the original video or audio through pairing them together. I think this mash-up elicits thoughts about society and children but about the role of parents as well. Good work!
ReplyDeleteI love the way you did this mash up. I think your purpose was very clear in the point you wanted to get across. The little girl talking and asking if she was supposed to be someone else, gave it the edge showing how much society does put pressure on women to look "beautiful", but really what is beautiful. It's all in the eye of the beholder.
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ReplyDeleteI wanted to comment on Megan's video because she took on a topic related to mine, but took a different angle, and because of that I can really appreciate what Megan did with her mash up. The message she sends with this video is similar to some of the content we discussed in another of Bettina's classes, Media Literacy, so it is familiar to me and I feel it's becoming more and more important to understand. I feel Megan's mash up is protected under fair use because of her use of the audio clips that she added. I don't know I would tell Megan to change much with this video; she did a great job with it.
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I like this - it reminds me of a clip that I've seen where they speed up the Photoshop process on a model so that you can see every single area where they manipulated the image - in an effort to get "natural" beauty. It was a change of pace to see one consistent video theme while having the "mash up" part be the use of audio. I liked that change of pace, and it made for a strong message with the contrast. This definitely qualifies as fair use because you took lots of "snippets" and combined them into something new that illustrates a different point.
ReplyDeleteI feel bad for these little girls who think they aren't pretty. It's so sad. You did a good job of making a point.
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