I'll be honest. This project was a challenge. I didn't have much time to work on it, so I made the time. Though it's not perfect and may get a little confusing near the middle I do feel like I gave it my best shot, and I really respect those that do remixes well. I begin the video with a title card asking the audience to allow Rafiki from The Lion King to be their guide. I took a lot of his dialogue from the movie and used it as a compass to navigate the audience through the piece. It looks at Corruption as a whole for the first little bit and then asks you to look in the mirror. I used the clip of Simba staring at himself in the pond and juxtaposed it with a bunch of corrupt figures in popular movies that hopefully gives the audience that there is a desire in all of us to get ahead using any means possible. The ending is designed however to give the audience hope and tell them that it can be stopped as long as they are willing to fight for it. I really hope that it's not super confusing. It's pretty tricky telling a story/give a speech through video clips turns out.
One of the things that I feel like I accomplished with my story for change is simply raising awareness. I am not sure if the audience will find anything else of worth, but at the very least I made it known that I think corruption is an issue worth addressing, and I can't help but wonder what Adorno and Horkheimer would think of it. It's sort of paradoxical that I'm using the very product of the man (according to Adorno and Horkheimer), and using it against him. But I'm sure they would be able to find a way to argue that my Story for Change is only perpetuating their ideals and social subjugation to the ones with the money.
The middle section of the video is where it feels like it loses itself, but that is intentional. It was designed to be jarring, make you take a look at what is happening. The reason behind that is to help the audience see the corruption inside of them and fight it. Some of it is really over the top, some of it isn't so much. It gives you the sense that you're losing control, but once it reels itself back it you realize what it was all about. It gives it grounding and a stronger foundation even if we aren't quite sure what is going on at the moment. At least that's my hope, maybe it will just feel like a jumbled mess. That wouldn't be such a great thing.
As I compiled these clips trying to create meaning I had kind of a cool experience. I came to a deeper understanding of how much this topic really means to me. It didn't feel like I was creating the Story for Change to get a grade, but to really make a difference. I'm almost tempted to continue perfecting my video so it's more influential, poignant, inspiring, and makes a change. The more I created, the more it meant to me, and I hope the viewer has the same kind of an experience as I did in the making of it. I'm positive it won't be the same however, because when you create something of this sort I'm almost positive it will mean more to the creator than to anyone else. Take God for example, we are his creations and we mean more to him than anything else. As a child when you built something it meant more to you than anybody else (except maybe your mother). That's one of the downsides to such a project. But that's also what gives me the desire to make it all the better so that the audience has an experience that was just as meaningful as mine.
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