By Adair Garrett
For my Remix and Adaptation Project, I would like to make my remix or adaptation focus on either the detainment of immigrant children. After much deliberation and mild levels of stress, I decided that I would apply some of what I discovered in my research to allow me to express the news today in the context of the early United States. I am planning on doing by drawing from different songs throughout mostly the first act (since that is the act with more revolution-heavy ideas) to create letters between Hamilton and Ann Mitchell from the perspective of a young Alexander Hamilton who has been detained at the border.
My concerns for this project include being inconsiderate because I’m addressing problems that I have and will never face in my own life. Although I am considering alternatives means in the creation of my project, I do not want to change my topic because I cannot stop thinking about it and would like to express my frustration in a creative outlet like this. The alternatives that I have considered in my brainstorm for this project include: one long letter (instead of a collection of letters), one news story from the time of Hamilton’s early travel (eighteenth century), or creating a brief newspaper (or short collection of newspapers) with a mix of modern news and the information revealed throughout the musical Hamilton.
I’m also concerned about making this project as interesting to others as it is to me. I would like to include more multimodal elements but I am not sure which I would want to include as of now, and I want to make it appealing to an audience but I do not want to make light of the situation I’m trying to portray.
I will be doing a lot of research into stories of immigrant children as well as working with formatting and templates online to find the best way to communicate the creation I have in mind. I am hoping to do this to create an argument about the hypocrisy of the American government in recent decisions regarding immigrant children by contrasting the founding fathers’ news and ideas to the laws in our country today
Another one of my concerns is to offend people with my implications, but I’ll attempt to keep my research and project focused on only factual information to prevent bias from causing offense.
I’m far from being the only person who sees the hypocrisy. I will research other groups and their publications to make my project as effective for my argument as possible.
