{"id":1301,"date":"2010-09-16T16:09:27","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T22:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/?p=1301"},"modified":"2010-09-27T20:56:22","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T02:56:22","slug":"recontextualization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/recontextualization\/","title":{"rendered":"Recontextualization"},"content":{"rendered":"

Initially, for this assignment, I was kind of stuck on deciding what to do. Sometimes it feels a little intimidating to show media work at school, since there are so many media pros attending the program. Chris sent the class a link to examples of recontextualization pieces<\/a> by other artists. This helped focus my thoughts on what to do, though I might have gone a little overboard.<\/p>\n

Recontexutalization, as I understood it, was to repurpose a media for something else and, in doing so, changing the meaning of the original. So, for my project, I felt inspired to dub one video with a second video’s soundtrack. For the visual\/video portion, I found a religious puppet video sharing a message about religion. For the sound portion, I found a clip of Pulp Fiction where Samuel L. Jackson’s character eventually recites a line from the book of Ezekiel and then shoots almost everyone in the room.<\/p>\n

It was really quite difficult to get the mouth movements of the puppets to properly match the spoken words of Pulp Fiction; it was tedious work. But, I’m happy with how it turned out.
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