Remediation is not a hard concept to grasp. Essentially it means that you would be taking elements from one form of media and then using those elements in another, for example; taking elements from games and putting them into films.
This is why Rob had us watch Run Lola Run in our last session with him, although I did not enjoy the film itself I found it easier to understand the concept of remediation.
The film borrowed many aspects from video games, such as when Lola dies and then is reborn at the start of the film, it’s as if she had spare lives, the fact that she does some things differently and so changes the outcome of some peoples’ lives shows that there are RPG elements of decision making that might influence the ending of something. Stuff like that.
A little bit after the session, and me complaining about how I didn’t think the film was good I started thinking about the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ music video for Californication. That music video has some very blatant inspirations from Video games. Mostly free-roam, sandbox games such as Grand Theft Auto and one particular scene reminded me of the game Crazy Taxi and another of a snowboarding game SSX Tricky.
But for some reason I was a little bit confused, did it count as remediation if it was so blatant? I mean, they weren’t actually running through, it was as though they were scenes from the game. Maybe it was inspired by games but not quite remediation yet.
Then I was confused further because I started thinking if Machinima would count as Remediation of a whole different nature, applying film elements to video games? I don’t even know. But I feel like I have grasped the concept to a certain extent.
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