Mambo No. 5 Disney Mashup

This project was based off of the idea of "remixing" and appropriative narratives. That can consist of taking pre-existing ideas or products and shaping them in a different way (through editing chronology or audio, overlaying different artifacts, or in some cases just changing authorship).

With three other classmates (Rachel Addoms, Kayla Stockdale, and Kylie Truscello), I was able to do not only a collaborative project, but an appropriative one. Two of these classmates, Kayla and Kylie, worked with me on my recent Pinterest project, so don't forget to check that out!

Our main goal in mind was to create something light-hearted that appealed to nostalgia and humor. We are all "90's babies" and that meant having some iconic entertainment in our childhoods. With that in mind, we chose to appropriate different dancing clips from both new and old animated Disney movies. The result in mind being a dance sequence, we needed a song that almost every person our age has heard a million times and still hasn't tired of it. We chose Lou Bega's "Mambo No. 5" (I know, basically the best dance song ever made).

Overlaying this song lined up perfectly with our video montage and it was actually a fun experience to polish our project up to make certain clips match the beat. We mostly used various YouTube videos and cut them to our liking on iMovie. A lot of our footage was from Tarzan's "Trashing the Camp" scene because of just how much their movements went with the song.

All in all, I could not be more pleased with the result and how easy it was working with my group. The video turned out cute, clean, and fulfilled our goal of nostalgic entertainment from our childhoods.