Week 10 - Remixing Content

I understand "remixing content" to mean, adding a new element (or elements) to an existing piece of media, in order to create something new. In other words, taking a photo or video and adding something new to it, such as a filter or stickers, and creating a new piece of media from it. An example of "remixing content" would be, last year, I took ICS 203: Digital Image Editing, and I learned a lot about how to photoshop and remixing my pictures in order to create a new image. It was a really fun class and the skills that I learned, were really useful especially in today’s world where remixed content is becoming as popular, if not more so, than unfiltered media.

These pictures were taken from one of my ICS 203 projects. Here we had to chose two or three images and "blend" them together to create a new image. Here I had chosen a picture of a sunrise I took out of an airplane window, a waterfall, and some flowers. All three pictures were taken by me and "remixed" to make something new.

The purpose of the assignment is to better understand the growing “remixing culture” and why it’s been gaining so much traction.

The key question at the heart of the assignment is have you ever remixed content before; i.e. photoshop or Instagram filters?

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