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Cynthia Bian & Lei Wang
The video is a re-imagined Donald Duck cartoon remix constructed using 50 classic Walt Disney animated shorts and combined with Glenn Beck's radio.
The video criticizes the world-wide big issue happened around 2008: the Great Recession. The concept is accomplished in an effective way. The two sources feels like a particularly good pairing in showing the economic crisis situation and the society's disregard and indifferent at the same time.
The final shot here was a speaker shouting to the Donald Duck and asked him to get a job. It revealed the general situation in the U.S. during the great recession period at the beginning of 21 century. The adversities that Donald experienced was what a large amount of people experienced in the real world. They had nothing to do and no one would sympathize them. Their life turned upside-down, and they were hopelessness and despair.
By adding this shot here, the author provided audiences the same feeling with the Donald Duck: despair. The cc here described America’s serious situation about unemployment and the financial crisis.
The Donald Duck tried to find a new job, but it was useless. When he went to employment agency, people there told him no jobs available any more, he need to face the issue about unemployment.
The footprint on his hip showed that the Donald Duck has been dismissed from his original job. The shot reveals the situation that people who work hard cannot get respect from their boss and lose their job during the period of economics crisis from 2008.
As his frustration turned into despair, Donald discovered a seemingly "sympathetic" voice coming from his radio - that of Glenn Beck's. He believed the radio. However, at the end, Donald found out that the voice was not on his side and actually had great contempt for him and his situation. He was criticized from his inability to pay the house. This shot indicates a common social phenomenon nowadays that although a person is experiencing a extremely hard time, there is no one can understand him or her. All the responses the person get are negative.
No job, no salary. Donald got a notice of foreclosure telling him if he could not afford his house, he was not able to live there anymore. This shot demonstrated a common circumstance at that time in the reality as well.
After he lost his job, the newspaper he read told the truth: the unemployment rate is nearly 20%. The author remixes the original animation with new words adding on the newspaper to illustrate the serious problem at the time of financial crisis. Instead of letting the duck say that , the newspaper is the best way to tell the audience what the author wants to show.
The remix is combined with video and audio clips. It intervenes the public issue of the Great Recession. The overall message successfully come across. The audience of the video can be everyone, since all of us has experienced the economic crisis, especially for the people who suffered a lot from it. The remix should be characterized as mushup.
This video is pretty successful. The cartoon clips used expresses the main idea really well and the radio voice makes the remix thoughtful and is worth pondering on. Also, the use of tone and background music is very effective.