In 'A Taxonomy of Digital Video Remixing” E. Horwatt says, “many filmmakers and video artists voice variations on the belief that media has colonized our imaginations and found footage films are a means of resistance and critique – an unauthorized way of redeploying hegemonic visual discourse to introduce dissent.”1
The following is the best example of this found footage remixing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUmqbiPazRU&feature=related
I love this clip. It truly depicts my feelings towards Fox News. I only wish they had thrown in a crazy quote from Bill O’Reily in there for good measure.
In the article Horwatt quotes video artist Nam June Paik who states, “Television has been attacking us all our lives, now we can attack it back.”
YouTube appears to be the perfect opportunity for this to happen. Many ‘vidders’ use these remixes to make a point with regards to often fabricated or just down right bad reporting that is done by channels such Fox News or CNN. One user, LiberalViewer has dedicated an entire channel on YouTube to ‘reporting’ on the fact and fiction on Fox News.
I heartily encourage these types of remixing, ‘reporting’ and all round bashing of the manipulative and biased channel Fox News. After watching (against my will), many hours of it in my youth, I find it hard to believe that there are educated people out there who actually believe the shpeel that FN comes up with. It’s thoroughly disturbing.
1- Horwatt, E. (2010). 'A Taxonomy of Digital Video Remixing: Contemporary Found Footage Practice on the Internet'. In Smith, I. R. (Ed.), Cultural Borrowings: Appropriation, Reworking, Transformation. Scope 17. Pp.88-108
The following is the best example of this found footage remixing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUmqbiPazRU&feature=related
I love this clip. It truly depicts my feelings towards Fox News. I only wish they had thrown in a crazy quote from Bill O’Reily in there for good measure.
In the article Horwatt quotes video artist Nam June Paik who states, “Television has been attacking us all our lives, now we can attack it back.”
YouTube appears to be the perfect opportunity for this to happen. Many ‘vidders’ use these remixes to make a point with regards to often fabricated or just down right bad reporting that is done by channels such Fox News or CNN. One user, LiberalViewer has dedicated an entire channel on YouTube to ‘reporting’ on the fact and fiction on Fox News.
I heartily encourage these types of remixing, ‘reporting’ and all round bashing of the manipulative and biased channel Fox News. After watching (against my will), many hours of it in my youth, I find it hard to believe that there are educated people out there who actually believe the shpeel that FN comes up with. It’s thoroughly disturbing.
1- Horwatt, E. (2010). 'A Taxonomy of Digital Video Remixing: Contemporary Found Footage Practice on the Internet'. In Smith, I. R. (Ed.), Cultural Borrowings: Appropriation, Reworking, Transformation. Scope 17. Pp.88-108
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