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any character interactions provided as raw material inherently limits what s produced more diverse clips would inevitably lead to more diverse creative uses and while the diversity of explosions offered here is laudable jets buildings a cafe taxis more taxis and hell why not make a taxi explosion clip trilogy while we re at it it also feels like a none too subtle attempt to overdetermine what narratives people use the tool to tell at its core the avengers is about relationships but you wouldn t know it from the range of clips provided save for a pair of nano second long clips of various male members of the team exchanging blows not enough to construct anything slashy trust me i made a valiant effort there are virtually no shots where two characters interact and the limited character shots that are provided tend to be interrupted immediately by those pesky explosions making it difficult to create a video that ruminates on the relationships between members of the team note i just checked back on the site and they seem to have swapped out some of yesterday s clips with more character clips so perhaps some of these complaints can be dialed back depending on which stable of clips you ve been given the obligatory terms of service stranglehold which as usual forces the remixer to waive all rights to their creation to wit see the load page for the remix interface and a selection from the terms of service this main pages links out to remixers ye be warned mickey seems awfully pleased with himself my central concern is one that won t surprise anyone who has read my work or julie levin russo s excellent work on battlestar galactica s videomaker toolkit not only do these authorized efforts fail to meaningfully reach out to pre existing fan vidding communities they seem to aggressively dissuade the forms of remix that have been historically created by women this isn t to say that many female fans aren t using or enjoying using this new avengers remix platform simply that if this is a model towards legit fan remix video that implies that this is a potential effort to displace or dissuade those illegitimate forms those that stage an argument or a counter reading ruminate on the dynamics between characters or queer them or take the narrative in a new unexpected e g unsanctioned direction there is also something to be said here about the fallaciously gendered construction of both comic book readers and the audience for franchise films in both cases women continue to be treated as surplus audiences and perhaps are considered surplus remixers here as well efforts like these from disney and marvel are tend to be discursively framed as a decisive break from the industry s prior prohibitionist response to fan production commonly manifesting in the form of cease and desist letters and other methods of legal censure taking a more collaborationist approach to fan culture and fan production while this might mark a step in the right direction we need to continue to be critical of what modes of creative censure come attached to these collaborationist gestures and which audiences they court the big issues here industrial cooptation of fan labor ownership authorship within copyright culture ideological censure seem to recur with the release of each new video toolkit and to my mind mark an ongoing need to consider how prohibitionist efforts evolve become more covert or create legitimizing discourses around sanctioned modes of fan engagement the avengers video remix toolkit ultimately speaks to the growing popularity of remix culture and the shifting cultural and technological landscape that is facilitating it without meaningfully engaging with those communities of practice in my next post i ll show you what i created with the avenger remix video toolkit and discuss what i hoped to convey spoiler alert i didn t skimp on the explosions comments 1 comment tags comics fan vids gender remix categories uncategorized scms 2012 workshops 13 04 2012 this year i participated at two teaching workshops at the annual society for cinema and media studies conference still catching up from the week away but wanted to share my prezis and some quick reflections the undergraduate television paper wednesday 3 21 from 2 3 45pm participants ethan thompson suzanne scott daniel marcus derek kompare and ben aslinger the wonderful christine becker was nice enough to write up this workshop along with other teaching workshops she attended which one among many who constantly complains about programming conflicts i was grateful for along with the other coverage by scms bloggers this year it was a small group due to last minute room changes losing a few panelists and general wednesday ness but a lively conversation in particular i appreciated the emphasis from derek kompare and others about the benefits of autobiographical assignments we also had an interesting exchange i believe at heather hendershot s prompting about which essays we assign students that model good writing notably in many cases this wasn t academic scholarly writing and my own 2 cents on this is that i frequently create thematic pairs of thoughtful blog posts magazine articles and scholarly journal articles to have students reflect on both forum and form and how effective each is in conveying their argument my sample assignment that i shared with the group was the take home midterm from my freshman writing class at occidental this past fall themed around fandom and participatory culture though it wasn t explicitly assigned as a flow assignment i would certainly assign something similar in an introductory television studies class i wanted to pick a show we hadn t watched in class procedural series with an network of ancillary content surrounding it and settled on castle abc i had made a decision at the beginning of the semester to design the paper assignment around an episode that aired within a week of students beginning to write both in terms of accessibility available on hulu and network website and so that they would be engaging with the rhythms and temporalities of broadcasting and the release of ancillary web content alongside other fans of the show for those not familiar with the show castle is a police procedural focused on a male mystery writer shadowing a female detective and this particular episode was focused on a masked vigilante who had taken on the identity of a comic book hero lone vengeance there were two primary approaches to take with this assignment which broadly asked them to analyze the intertextual intersections between the episode and various examples of ancillary web content and then consider fan engagement or what this ancillary content offered fans first they could examine what this content said about shifts within the television industry in terms of transmedia branding and horizontal integration most of my students framed this analysis around the derrick storm graphic novel disney abc marvel ownership and its not so subtle appearance in the episode also timed to the release of the episode selections of the graphic novel were released on the official castle site and the full graphic novel was released 2 days after this episode aired second approach to this assignment was to consider how television text and paratext inform each other and what function this relationship serves for audiences through an examination of the blog written by the series title character though it appears that this is veering into a paper about webcomics or transmedia storytelling more broadly and abandoning a discussion of television as a result i think it s useful to consider the slippages between series and serialized television and consider what these ancillary texts have to tell us about the valuation of television fans within convergence culture these digital extensions also tell us a great deal about shifts within the television industry my presentation provocation was meant to suggest how we might incorporate these new forms of multiplatform flow into our conversations with students about television form history industry and audiences teaching comics studies friday 3 23 from 12 15 2pm participants drew morton scott bukatman suzanne scott greg smith james thompson and matt yockey i have to say i was thrilled with how this workshop went and honored to be part of such a rich panel having met with the newly formed comic studies sig the night before i was thrilled to see a packed house for this panel clearly comics are being taught across disciplines and with different emphases and i thoroughly enjoyed swapping experiences with both the panelists and participants from the audience my own contribution to this conversation was to suggest theory praxis assignments for students offering some impressive examples created by students in my comic book culture class at uc santa cruz including a comic created to accompany a term paper focusing on the representation of women in comics and a short film attempting to replicate with comic book aesthetics sample assignments by other scholars that i would incorporate into future comic classes with attribution naturally and tools that might help students create their own comics with limited artistic experience so enjoy and feel free to ask me more detailed questions about either of these workshops or the ideas contained in these prezi presentations comments leave a comment tags comic studies pedagogy praxis scms television studies categories uncategorized scms sdcc 27 03 2012 here i sit precisely 48 hours after arriving home from the annual society for cinema and media studies conference in boston scratchy throat drinking tea and running through kleenex like it s going out of style con crud has claimed another victim it feels an awful lot like late july during thursday s gendering fandom panel paul booth made a passing remark on the twitter backchannel that got me thinking is there really such a difference between scms and sdcc where do we draw the line between conference and convention we can partially credit the historic park place hotel for allowing this analogy to worm its way into my brain after all anyone who has braved the floor of the expo hall at sdcc knew exactly how to navigate those narrow body jammed hallways between panels hint it s all about the elbows once i started thinking about it i noticed some other interesting parallels panel overflow and camping no hall h worthy drama here but my roommate did storm back into our room around 11 05am on saturday morning complaining that people had camped out through the early panel substitute that warhol paper i needed to see with the dr who panel and you see where i m going with this underground information exchanges regarding party locations and access arguably more people have tried to get into the usc party than flynn s arcade over the past few years fan art from my workshop on teaching comic studies thanks dan carino passionate analytical defenses of indiana jones 4 kingdom of the crystal skull courtesy of janet staiger panel envy the grass exclusive footage foucault reference is always greener swag from university presses nina huntemann rightly noted to me that it won t really be comic con until someone creates a stunt to promote a book they re releasing so if your study of race and representation in zombie horror has a 2013 publication date just let me know i m fully prepared to collect some likeminded scholars for a zombie walk around chicago on your behalf all joking aside there s something to be said about how we navigate scms as fans of particular scholars media texts disciplines approach our own work as fans and or perform our fannish investments detachment in that space chime in on parallels i may have missed i somehow doubt that cosplay was involved if only but i d be curious to hear from others who have noticed similarities in terms how we do don t perform our identities as media consumers and fans for those who feel comfortable embracing the designation in the conference space we populate as media scholars author s note i love the week after the annual society for cinema and media studies conference when all my favorite academics blog eloquently written impressions and analyses some from the official scms conference bloggers are already up as always i left scms intellectually invigorated reconnected with old friends and colleagues and introduced to incredible scholars a serious post about my takeaways from scms12 and my workshops will follow after i get rid of the crud comments leave a comment categories uncategorized happy femshepfriday everyone 10 02 2012 just a quick follow up to my prior post regarding bioware s beauty contest marketing fail for their mass effect 3 promotional campaign well the trailer s finally here and female gamers everywhere should be breathing a collective sigh of relief of course just because the trailer isn t a condescending nightmare doesn t mean it won t be analyzed and i fully intend to collect those posts here so if you come across any commentary e g why renegade femshep what s the significance of bioware creating a second round of voting to arrive at this redheaded iteration after the blonde trumped all in the initial facebook vote debacle etc please send it my way in comments the response on twitter which you can follow at femshepfriday has been overwhelmingly positive and here are some of the more interesting ones i ve collected today the theme of the majority of the tweets thus far seems to be my shep is rather than a response to the trailer speaking to the fact that ultimately no shep be it fem or bro will ever sufficiently capture the game s best feature choice i d be curious to hear if players project their own iteration of shep onto bioware s promotional marketing materials responses analyses good overview of the events leading up to today s trailer launch via gamezone she has arrived more love for mass effect 3 s female shepard via savegame 2010 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