While creating my mashup assignment, I realized 2 major things. 1 being that it may seem easy just to put together a bunch of stuff together about a certain topic. The second being, in the topic you are creating a mashup about, there are sub-levels to that topic and you can recognize them as you are creating the mashup.
Putting together a mashup is not just putting random stuff together in a random order with random meanings. That is chaos. I realized while creating mine, about love, that you couldn't just put completely random things in no specific order, there is a meaning behind what you are doing and just adding something just anywhere ruins that.
I also realized while creating my mashup of love, that the different types of love should be incorporated into my mashup. Their is more than 1 type of love and these sub-levels helped me sort out and order my mashup for it to make sense. My recognition of this really allowed me to understand and to organize myself and how I will try to structure my mashup. Structuring the mashup is what gives it it's meaning, it is what gives the mashup a purpose. Otherwise, it would just be words and pictures scrambled together with no sense behind it at all.
Although the mashup was hard and time-consuming. It was one of the better assignments I've done for a book in a English class. I really enjoyed the freedom of use of things. I also enjoyed the whole, "not writing a paper" thing. I would actually enjoy doing this type of project instead of a essay or paper any day. I am glad that we were able to do this assignment because I really did not want to write another 1000 word essay.
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