Remediation

Remediation is the representation of one media in another. a good example of remediation is the Resident evil series of games which have also been made into films.

There have also been many other examples of similar crossovers. We were shown a good example of such by watching the german film Run Lola Run, in which the main character, Lola, is basically running the whole way through the film in order to get money to her boyfriend Manni and stop him robbing a store.

The main part of the film is divided in three "runs". Each run starts from the same situation but develops differently and has a different outcome. Each run contains various flash-forward sequences, showing how the lives of the people that Lola bumps into develop after the encounter. In each run, those people are affected in different ways.

During the first sequence of event lola is too late getting to Manni and she ends up getting shot by the police after they rob the store, in this sequence she learns how to turn the safety off the pistol.

In the second sequence of event she makes it in time but doesnt get the money that they need. Lola and the Manni see each other in the distance only to see the him get hit by an ambulance (ironic i know).

Then onto the thiiiird  sequence of events. In this sequence Lola manages to win the 100,000 marks at a casino then runs to meet her boyfriend manni and they basically live happily ever after.

After watching the film we went on to discuss that many of us thought that without the concept of "respawning" that we speculated came from games, the film would not have come to be.