The Walking Dead

By introducing The Walking Dead Remix of The Walking Dead Comics, Frank Darabont hoped to recreate the story of living off the bare minimum of what humans need to survive. Darabont had hoped to reintroduce the message of the comics, “Be thankful for what you have” (Peisner, para. 17). The Comics and the Remix - the TV Show – do have their differences, though; however, that is the point of a remix. Darabont changed events and certain details of the comics to try and draw more attention from a certain age group in hopes that they will be his future audience. An example of this is when a character by the name of Andrea – who is portrayed by Laurie Holden - died at the end of Season 3 in the TV Show episode, “Welcome to The Tombs,” by getting bitten on the neck by a zombie. She later ended up shooting herself to prevent being zombified herself; however, in the comics, she is very much alive and well. Darabont chose to change her role in the show by killing her off instead of leaving her alive like in the comics because he wanted to get a reaction out of people – he wanted his audience to talk about it with their friends so other people will find out about the show and start watching it, overall causing the show to which caused a mix reaction within the audience – some people were ecstatic, whereas some were extremely upset. This happens more often than one might think. Some authors remix things in hopes that the message of the original content will reach a wider audience, whereas other authors may just remix things just for pure entertainment.

In addition to those reasons, sometimes remixes are made for academic purposes. For example, if a student wanted to do his presentation on the uniqueness of music videos, he could include several in his presentation, as well as making his own music video using parts of the ones he had already included to make a whole new unique video. “Vidding – editing found footage from TV shows and movies to music – actually dates back some 40 years…” (Murray, para. 6). Vidding is included in The Walking Dead in multiple scenes, where they included music over possibly a sad scene, a fighting scene, or maybe a romance scene. An example of this is when Carl, a beloved character, shoots himself on season 8 episode 9, “Honour” to save him from becoming a zombie. The song played was “At the Bottom of Everything” by Bright Eyes. Remixes have been around for a decent amount of time, so there is no surprise that people have found plenty of ways to create them - The Walking Dead TV Show is just one of the millions that have been created.