Music Never Dies

I took the time to pick an assemblage that really reflected the success of songs throughout the course of an entire year. For that reason, I chose a mashup produced by Daniel Kim in 2015 called Pop Danthology. Daniel Kim took the top hits that were most popular in that year and created a remix that encompassed them all together. To accompany the audio, he included the music video in the same order as in the audio to in order to create a visual aspect for the audience. To transform this already amazing assemblage, I decided to create a more visual medium by presenting all the song’s album covers. I presented them in a checkered format so you could visually see each song that was included in the mashup. The arrangement was largely based on the color palette on each cover so that too many similar colors were not contained in the same area.
This project truly encompassed what it means to compose, because I had to carefully decided on how I wanted to shift the focus of the original assemblage, but present it in a new format. Writing in general just presents one’s ideas in a condensed manner while composing is more focused on making careful decisions that affects a texts rhetorical situation. These assemblages truly showcase the different manners we can communicate information. Both texts convey the same top hits, however, one is visual while the other is auditory so it appeals differently to the same audience. Everyone understands information in different ways so each text can convey to the audience’s preference of mediums.

            To create this composition, I had to keep in mind many of the class’ key terms. Assemblage of course, but also design, genre, network, and exigence all came together to help me determine how to transform the original assemblage. I had to take each of these terms into consideration so I could create something with a clear rhetoric. It is important to see that reuse and design can create new texts that still convey different, yet similar meanings. Design has a huge impact in how an audience receives information and this project was very reflective of that.

Original Assemblage:
https://www.facebook.com/canadankim/videos/10153192511846596/
https://www.facebook.com/canadankim/videos/10153192535696596/

Transformed Assemblage:
  

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