MASH UP

For the first sketch of the class,

we were asked to create

a mash up using final cut pro 7

In doing so we would learn basic editing functions

in nonlinear editing software,

experiment with appropriating another person's work

and

· Subvert the meaning of a commercial image to cause viewers to rethink the visual symbol as a carrier of meaning

I chose to appropriate a clip from "SpaceBalls" by Mel Brooks in which the enemies fail when choose to switch to "ludicrous speed" because "light speed is too slow." I manipulated some filters and basic editing tools in final cut to make this vide0