By: Kristen English
For my Remix and Adaptation Project, I am going to take the song “My Shot” from Hamilton Act 1 and adapt it into a modern day blog with multiple entries and with the use of multimodal elements. I will create my own Blog through Wix and design the website to represent Hamilton’s persona and character in the show. The blog will consist of several different entries all attempting to portray the narrative described through the lyrics of “My Shot”. I will be writing as if I am Hamilton’s character in the show and tell the story from how I envision his point of view. I will also adapt the blog entries to have a modernized element to them and portray the narrative through the lens of a modern-day Alexander Hamilton.
I believe this project is going to require a bit of technical skills as it does require the creation of an entire blog website along with multiple blog entries to tell the story. Along with the technical skills required there is also a degree of creativity involved as I have to adapt the story told by Hamilton in “My Shot” to fit as a modern day story in society. I believe that this idea however is within the scope of the project as outlined by the rubric as I estimate that the entire creation and writing process of the blog should not take longer than 8-10 hours.
Overall I am super excited to begin to work on this project. I feel that this project fits my skills as a writer and allows me to be creative and make something new out of the song without having any musical abilities. I can foresee challenges however if I procrastinate and wait until the last minute to get started on the actual project. To keep myself on track I am setting daily reminders to work on the project bit by bit so that I will not wait until the very last minute and overwhelm myself. In conclusion, I am super excited to get started and cannot wait to see what creative ideas everyone else comes up with!
