Pastiche Exercise 1
http://flavorwire.com/411724/50-things-you-didnt-know-about-the-wizard-of-oz/
http://www.pettipond.com/frou_tv.htm
Unfortunately I could not find the clip on youtube, but I bought the episode on iTunes to reference and i tried to screen record it while I was watching the scene it but it only got the audio, but it is still a pretty decent representation of what is going on!
1. This pastiche is a reworking of the past because “That’s So Raven”, a Disney Channel original sitcom that went from January 2003-November 2007, remade the story of the 1939 classic film “The Wizard of Oz” to fit into their own plot. In the episode called “Soup to Nuts”, Raven is faking sick to avoid being punished for spilling beads all over the floor by accident and having her principal with a bad back slip on them. When she’s home, her Dad feeds her this extremely spicy soup that makes her a little delusional. While she is watching TV she flips the channel on to what looks like is the Wizard of Oz, but she is Dorothy, and Eddie, Chelsea, and Cory are the scarecrow, tinman, and lion. Similar to the film, they walk into Oz’s lair with the remains of the Witch of the Wicked West, when they see “Oz” as a floating head, played by her dad. Eventually they discover that Oz is just a man on an elliptical machine behind a curtain speaking into a microphone. Then the Wicked Witch of the West comes in, played by her principal, and when she tries to melt him with water, he doesn’t. This popular TV show like many others took a well-known storyline of the past and made it their own for entertainment purposes.
2. This is definitely a pastiche with a parody because it takes what actually happens from the original movie and keeps it to a certain point, but makes certain parts funny. For example, at the end of the original movie Dorothy pours water on the witch and she melts. At the end of this scene, Raven as Dorothy pours water on her principal as the witch and steam rises as if he is melting like in the movie but he remains there and says “I’m not melting” instead of “I’m melting” while he flicks water from his hands onto her. Raven then says “Water on weave, I’M melting, I’m melting!” This is a perfect example of how this episode makes it a parody by taking the melting scene and then having Raven be the one that melts because he got water on her hair weave. Attached is the scene if you would like to reference it.
3. This work questions the status of the original because it kind of makes fun of it and does it to their own standards. A lot of TV shows do this, where they take a piece of a former popular concept and makes a parody of it. Also, the technology in 2003-2007 was much better than what they had in the 1930’s so it makes it a lot more presentable and brings it to life a little more.
Pastiche Exercise 2
1. The individual graphs and the website as a whole are pastiches because they are taking formal formats for graphs, charts, and visual representations and making their content about silly things. For example, in this format of a pie chart, we can see that it isn’t measuring anything substantial, but what you did with a ruler when you were a kid: measuring and work in blue or spinning it around a pencil in orange, and almost the whole chart is orange. This is a reworking of the past because you wouldn’t have seen jokes like this or things making fun of formal formats like these several years ago, so this time period has definitely found a way to rework the past formal formats and make it their own.
2. This pastiche is definitely a parody because it almost mimicking the original formats and making them into a joke. Other examples I found are “Parents With Toddlers Can’t Have It All” representing that parents with toddlers have very little chance of not being stressed all the time, and also “The Scale of Awkwardness”, which measures awkwardness on a scale of awkward to “mad awks”.
3. This work questions the original because you would never see a professional looking graph or chart measuring silly stuff like this in the past. These kinds of formats you would normally see in a classroom or a professional presentation measuring whatever was being studied or tested, not something like a ruler being used for helicopter blades or the scale of awkwardness.
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