Starting Project 3: 

Today we are starting Project 3, Remix a Story. This project asks us to take a well known story and put a different spin on it.

The famous beginning of the novel

For my project, I am choosing to work with the classic Jane Austen novel, Pride and Prejudice, which is a story of romance, manners, morality, and marriage set in England in the early 19th century. The story follows Elizabeth Bennett, one of five unwed sisters, as she navigates the social scene and eventually ends up engaged to Mr. Darcy.

There are many forms of Pride and Prejudice. The three versions I have found are the original text, the 2005 Pride and Prejudice movie, and Bridget Jone’s Diary (a modern adaption).

For my project, I’ll be adapting the novel again, and turning it into a tabloid / gossip column like the NY Post’s Page 6.  The project will transform all of the stories from the novel into modern gossip articles.

I’m looking forward to getting started!

For my “Remix a Story” project I plan on retelling the tale of “Around the World in 80 Days.” It is a story about a group of men who are bet that they cannot travel around the world in 80 days or less. The group includes an inventor, a thief, and an artist, and they use various modes of travel in a race around the world. There are three versions of this story: the original novel by Jules Verne written in 1873, an award-winning film adaptation in 1956, and a Disney adaptation in 2004. For my story I think I will focus on using the 2004 version, but will include parts from the other stories.

My plan is to use an interactive map or flight planning forms to create an itinerary that depicts the journey that the main characters travel. I can also use clips of the movie to supplement the itinerary I will create so that the user can get a better idea of what the journey looked like. I don’t plan on changing the plot of the story as much as I am planning on changing how the story is told. Much of the journey in the 2004 movie is by hot air balloon or a makeshift flying machine. To depict these specific parts of the journey I will complete FAA Flight Plan forms, which I think will also tie into the overall theme of my WordPress site.

FAA Flight Plan Form:

IMBD Link to the 2004 Movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327437/

IMBD Link to the 1956 Movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048960/

Wikipedia page for the Jules Verne novel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Around_the_World_in_Eighty_Days

Project 3: Remix a Story

I’ve chosen “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” a classic short story by Washington Irving, to remix for this project. I think I’ll be able to tackle the whole story for this project; it’s relatively short and the gist and sensibility of it can be portrayed without necessarily including every detail.

I’ve found four fairly good sources to use.

1. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” – a classic short story by Washington Irving
(Original text, available online)

2. The Headless Horseman: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow – 1922 silent version starring Will Rogers as Ichabod Crane.
Available here.

3. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1949) Disney Masterpieces – animated short film
Available here. 

4. Sleep Hollow (2013) – Fox television series.

I think I can create a collection of digital artifacts, or possibly a diary of Ichabod Crane (including sketches and possible pictures of artifacts), to convey the story, create an appropriate, spooky feel to the tale, and effectively “digitize” it in a unique way.

I’ll be covering the story of Cinderella from an outside point of view: A journalist. My project will contain news articles and and social media posts.

For my sources:

1. Grimm, Jakob and Wilhelm. Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales. Barnes and Noble. 7 July 2013.
2. Levine, Gail Carson. Ella Enchanted. HarperCollins Publishers. 28 August 1998.
3. Once Upon A Time (But only for the idea of the perspective from an Outsider) on ABC Network

Today we began doing project three. For my project three I want to highlight the significant events in How I Met Your Mother. I found this idea from a Buzzfeed article that talks about the significant events in the show. Though this post has 50 plus significant events I only plan on using a few. Also because I don’t like how the show ended I will be throwing in an alternative ending based on how I would have wanted the show to end. My sources are the Buzzfeed article, the alternative endings and of course the original show.

Bays, Carter, and Craig Thomas. “How I Met Your Mother.” How I Met Your Mother. CBS. 19 Sept. 2007. Television.

Orley, Emily. “The 53 Most Pivotal Moments From All Of “How I Met Your Mother” In Chronological Order.” BuzzFeed. Buzzfeed, 31 Mar. 2014. Web. 27 Oct. 2014.

Taschieri, Alessia. “HIMYM ALTERNATE ENDING.” YouTube. YouTube, 7 Sept. 2014. Web. 27 Oct. 2014.

For project 3 we are tasked with remixing a story of our choice. When I had originally thought of this, I had no idea what to do or how I was going to do it. The first idea that had popped in my mind was to retell a Disney story. Everyone knows Disney, everyone loves a good Disney movie.

For my project I am going to remix and retell the Disney Movie Finding Nemo. Finding Nemo was an instant classic that everyone absolutely loved. I am going to take the adventure of Marlin and Dory and their quest to find Nemo and remix it all up and tell it in a different order. Then once I do that I am going to create an alternate ending. I am not going to say what the ending is exactly just yet because that would ruin the surprise, but it will be different.

The reason I am remixing everything that happens in the middle of the movie with Marlin and Dory is because that is where everything happens in the movie. The Movie is about Dory’s and Marlin’s relationship and how they are going to find Nemo.

Here are different links that I researched to come up with my idea on remixing Finding Nemo:

Finding Nemo Game

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAUYiovRX24

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gNXmBEZIGo

For this project, I chose Beauty and the Beast. This was one of my favorite Disney movies as a kid — I always wanted to be Belle. I want to focus on bringing this fairytale into the modern world by connecting it with other movies and tv shows that follow the same theme as Beauty and the Beast. There have been several modern adaptations of this classic Disney movie and fairytale. There are also countless movies and tv shows that have the same basic theme: don’t judge someone based on their looks.

These are my three sources:

The original text:

LePrince de Beaumont, J. (1756). Beauty and the Beast.

The movie:

(1991). Beauty and the Beast [Motion picture]. USA: Disney.

A modern adaptation

(2012). Beauty and the Beast [Television show]. USA: The CW.

I chose to do Beauty and the Beast as my story. There have been so many obvious “remixes” of this story but I think that there are many other stories that capture the essence of this timeless tale without being quite so overt. These are the archetypal bad boys in every romcom out there– the ones whom we think are quite “beastly” at the beginning of the movie, but turn into prince charming and score the girl. So I want to use that to develop my story and highlight different ways a dude can be beastly. Or I might flip it and make the girl the beastly one. I think I want to do this in diary-like blog posts from either the perspective of Belle or the Beast.

Here are the remixes I’ve found so far:

1. Once Upon A Time- ABC Television Show

2. Beaty & The Beast- CW Television Show

3. Beastly- Novel by Alex Flinn (made into a movie also )

4. The Original Story by Jean-Marie LePrince de Beaumont