Audio from a Requiem for a Dream trailer, with video from Toy Story 2. Pretty freaking cool.
In Remix Lessig discusses remix as a modern form of collage. On page 70 the book explains that collage
"emerged with the invention of photography. Very shortly after it was invented.. you started seeing these sort of joking postcards that were photo composites. There would be a horse- drawn wagon with a cucumber in the back the size of a house. Things like that. Just little joking composite photograph things."
A digital remix is just the natural evolution of collage. Toy Story Requiem is one of these collages. Firstly, the video juxtaposes many different clips from Toy Story 2 together to create a cohesive narrative that fits the audio. They did a great job with this. The character's lips even match up with a lot of the dialogue. I would imagine that this took quite a bit of time to accomplish. It is also a collage in the sense that it takes the video from one film and posts it over the audio from another. It is like taking the Mona Lisa and pasting it into Nighthawks (that would be a sweet collage).
Remixes are great and I know from experience that almost all video work does take a lot of time to get good results.
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