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Cinderella J.A.M

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from Cinderella J.A.M, 25.05.09

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THE REAL STORY OF CINDERELLA

So you think you know what Cinderella's all about?
Take another look at this simple 'Rags To Riches' tale, and come with us as we show you another side to this story from our childhood.

Fairytales through the ages have been built upon fear and anxiety and the need for control, on fixed gender roles and expectations, and more than anything on fantasy and escapism from the perceived cruelty and injustice in everyday living.

In these tales heroes are born, maidens are saved, princesses made overnight. In the tale of Cinderella your salvation lies in the beauty you were born with, your Prince Charming promising an escape from all your trouble and woes. But something just isn't quite right about all this.

Cinderella J.A.M sees over 50 original clips from archival footage remixed into 12 new and distinct pieces. Each piece becomes a fragment of a larger fabric, the underbelly of the classic Cinderella tale. Through our remixes we will show you another way to read Cinderella, another way to write Cinderella, and maybe then the truth of the tale will come to light.

Not every fairytale has a happy ending...

Produced by
Jenna Vickers
Angeline Lim
Miriam Wallace

>>Preliminary Research Paper

>>Research & Development Blog

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The list of works used in creating our pieces is outlined in each piece under the "Remixed With" link. Please visit our website for a full list of derivative works:
http://theevolutionof.tumblr.com/

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    12.06.09 — Natasha Mitchell

    (Note to wider public -

    (Note to wider public - these comments should be taken in the context of this being a university class exercise! These RMIT projects are very sophisticated, and we welcome much simpler and entirely amateur contributions to Gene Pool too!).

    Hi team (Jenna, Angeline, Miriam)

    This is a terrific idea...re-making/mutating/evolving the narrative of a popular fairy tale..especially one so laden with gender expectations etc - so much to explore there. I think/hope you'll spark ideas amongst other visitors to Gene Pool about the basis and possibilities of remixing.

    - really great use and sourcing of clips from http://archive.org . Some *superb* old footage here

    - I enjoyed your various personal explanations for the meaning of each remix in your blogs. Perhaps you could have linked directly to those underneath your videos in case people want to know more?

    I also liked having the deeper context provided by your framing statement, prelim research paper and the project blog (as well as your personal course blogs) - really gives an interesting sense of the underbelly of your project. Thanks for including those.

    Re: the background content - I could see you were really teasing out the evolution of social media platforms, networking sites, the Net etc, while you were trying to 'evolve' a theme for your project too. This is in an interesting back-story to observe in the making... (Personally for me, I reckon the idea or story is always key, and the platform is just a tool for realising, making or sharing the idea. And, that we can get caught up in the whiz bang novelties of new tools and lose sight of the dramatic delights of the core narrative. Eg. in the early days of the web, everyone made all their text flash and flicker just because they could. But I'm just thinking out loud there...after all, your whole project was to explore the theoretical basis of convergence culture too as you've done).

    Hope some others mutate your content and Cinderella stories here further in the Gene Pool!

    Thanks for contributing . Good luck with your next projects. Feel free to add your thoughts here too.

    Natasha Mitchell
    Presenter + science broadcaster - ABC Radio National
    http://abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind
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    Gene Pool coproducer

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    01.06.09 — Nicky

    HI Ange, Miriam and

    HI Ange, Miriam and Jenna,

    What a great project. I loved it. A great theme- very thought provoking- and a great use of remixing.
    It's interesting how 'fairytales' are presented to children, even today (I nannyed to young girls while I was at uni and they were obsessed with being princesses and idolised character like Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty), without much though of the underlying message being conveyed- they're just accepted as classic fables- but are these really the messages we want our children to learn?

    Nicky Phillips
    Producer ABC Radio National Science Unit

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    25.05.09 — John Jacobs

    Great project! Thanks for

    Great project!

    Thanks for sharing it and making the remixes. I really got a lot out of them. It's so good to see coherent body of work remixed from Archive.org sources. The Cindarella theme is so wonderful for your line of social critique, opening up in so many directions.

    I am interested to learn what you can do with the Tumblr platform. I am always keen to enable layered multi author story telling and whould be very interestred to see further remixes of your work, to that end you might consider making it explicit that you can download your mixes at Vimeo. For me as a viwer this wan't immediately clear. But that could also be just something I'm obsessed with. Anyway it's a great project thanks for sharing it. Cheers John

    John Jacobs
    Pool >> Audience experience & Community contact

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    25.05.09 — Cinderella J.A.M

    Hello John, thanks for

    Hello John, thanks for dropping by! We've addressed your feedback and included a clear link to the video downloads page and clear instructions, so that we can pass on the remix culture ;) The link to the initial research project is fixed now too.
    Cheers! - ange

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