Video Mashup - Heather

The point of this mashup is to get the audience to question their image of a terrorist, who really is capable of committing terrorist acts? Is it just middle-eastern looking men? What about the clean cut, white man pictured would he really be questioned regarding that kind of behavior?

I have found that in the American world there is a tendency to classify all terrorist as Muslims and all Muslims as middle-eastern ethnicity. Frustrated with this, I have created this mashup to hopefully further the idea that terrorism is the use by ANY INDIVIDUAL/GROUP of violence to intimidate or coerce others. Everyone is equally capable of committing a terrorist act therefore we, as a whole, should refrain from stereotyping middle eastern and individuals who practice the Muslim religion. Terrorism, by definition is: the use of violence or threats to intimidate or coerce.

The use of both videos is justifiable under Fair Use for a variety of reasons. First, all of the media shown above was employed to make a critique of our cultures view of terrorists. It was used to illustrate that the media tends to portray terrorists only as Muslim, middle eastern men. Second, the small video portion that I used from the whole newscast was approximately two minutes long, out of that I cut and spliced it into less then one minute in length. Thus, the video used was changed by cutting and splicing together one longer clip into the shortest time frame necessary to still make the point. The other video and photograph I used were so minuet, and used for completely different purpose then their original reason. Lastly, and most importantly, the videos message was transformed from discussing an unexpected terrorist attack to who the suspected terrorists were, why, and who we usually blame “the Muslim monopoly”. The videos focus is to critique the social, political, and cultural idea that all terrorists are Muslims; forcing viewers to question their opinion of what a terrorist may look like.