A2 Theory
Tuesday, 11 February 2014
Tuesday, 28 January 2014
First Postmodern Question Plan.
"Postmodern media manipulate time and space". To what extent does this definition apply to texts you have studied?"
Task One - My opinion in 26 words.
Postmodernism media manipulates everything. Time and space within 'Inglorious Basterds' and 'Inception' manipulates time and space within film; postmodernism media has the potential to manipulate everything.
Task One - My opinion in 26 words.
Postmodernism media manipulates everything. Time and space within 'Inglorious Basterds' and 'Inception' manipulates time and space within film; postmodernism media has the potential to manipulate everything.
Wednesday, 15 January 2014
Lesson Six Homework - Uncool Playlist
Fuck - Bring Me The Horizon (Heavy Metal)
What Did You Expect? - Neck Deep (Alternative)
Circle The Drain - Katy Perry (Pop)
Last Friday Night - Katy Perry (Pop)
Home/Sick - Heart In Hand (Rock)
Destabalise - Enter Shikari (Rock)
Jumping Ship - Counterparts (Rock)
Far Q - Lower Than Atlantis (Alternative)
Warrior - Blitz Kids (Alternative)
Blessed With A Curse - Bring Me The Horizon (Heavy Metal)
Deadliest Catch - Lower Than Atlantis (Alternative)
Call Me Hopeless, But Not Romantic - Mayday Parade (Alternative)
The postmodern meaning to my uncool playlist
There is no "cool" anymore, it is impossible to be "cool", people are too opinionative for there to be a right and a wrong in what is "cool". My playlist to someone else may seem unusual or different and not of their taste, but it is not "uncool". The phrase "cool" is unusable anymore as it has lost all of its meaning due to it being over analysed and used. Some may associate myself to have an unusual playlist as there are Heavy Metal Songs as well as Pop Songs.
Due to music being so easy to reach with online streaming, YouTube and iTunes, it is easy to have no knowledge of any music genres as being separate. It is entirely possible for everyone to be interested in all music genres and not generalising them into categories and sub-categories. Would it not have been for the internet enabling me to reach out to find more genres, then I would still just be a fan of Pop music, and only like specific artists and it would be very difficult for my knowledge and understanding of music to expand.
What Did You Expect? - Neck Deep (Alternative)
Circle The Drain - Katy Perry (Pop)
Last Friday Night - Katy Perry (Pop)
Home/Sick - Heart In Hand (Rock)
Destabalise - Enter Shikari (Rock)
Jumping Ship - Counterparts (Rock)
Far Q - Lower Than Atlantis (Alternative)
Warrior - Blitz Kids (Alternative)
Blessed With A Curse - Bring Me The Horizon (Heavy Metal)
Deadliest Catch - Lower Than Atlantis (Alternative)
Call Me Hopeless, But Not Romantic - Mayday Parade (Alternative)
The postmodern meaning to my uncool playlist
There is no "cool" anymore, it is impossible to be "cool", people are too opinionative for there to be a right and a wrong in what is "cool". My playlist to someone else may seem unusual or different and not of their taste, but it is not "uncool". The phrase "cool" is unusable anymore as it has lost all of its meaning due to it being over analysed and used. Some may associate myself to have an unusual playlist as there are Heavy Metal Songs as well as Pop Songs.
Due to music being so easy to reach with online streaming, YouTube and iTunes, it is easy to have no knowledge of any music genres as being separate. It is entirely possible for everyone to be interested in all music genres and not generalising them into categories and sub-categories. Would it not have been for the internet enabling me to reach out to find more genres, then I would still just be a fan of Pop music, and only like specific artists and it would be very difficult for my knowledge and understanding of music to expand.
Lesson Four, Five and Six - Inception
Post Modern elements of inception
·
Intertextual references
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Refers to itself, constant links from other
parts in the film.
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Sai Tao at the other side of the table to Comp
at the beginning of the film and end.
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Several people waking up in the Sea at different
times.
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The room code, Females phone number and Safe
code all being the same number.
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Paradox’s (two conflicting ideas which cannot
co-exist) The stairs, and not knowing if they are asleep or awake.
·
Textual reference, the old man at the end
linking to a Hospital in another film.
·
There are 6
Grand Narratives within the film and all of them interconnect and show
different genres, which is what makes it postmodern.
·
He questions what time is. Time is not linear.
Time has just happened. Time is an event. A fallacy. Everything has already
happened.
·
Simulacrum.
·
The original cut shows that the spinning top
falls over whereas in the final cut it is left as a cliff hanger.
·
The film has no depth.
Lesson Three - Homework
I shall embed the videos in ASAP
Three – The Pony
Cadburys – The Eyebrows
O2 – Be More Dog
Postmodernism in adverts involves not showing the product,
creating an image of something completely different to what you would expect
for the product of the advertisement. It involves being weird for the sake of
being weird, creating something which will make people remember it. Therefore
when they talk about it with their peers and therefore they receive free
advertising through word of mouth.
Jean-Francois Lyotard
“Lyotard
rejected what he called the “grand narratives” or universal “meta-narratives.”
Principally, the grand narratives refer to the great theories of history, science, religion, politics. For example, Lyotard rejects the ideas that everything is knowable by science or that as history moves forward in time, humanity makes progress. He would reject universal political ‘solutions’ such as communism or capitalism. He also rejects the idea of absolute freedom.
In studying media texts it is possible also to apply this thinking to a rejection of the Western moralistic narratives of Hollywood film where good triumphs over evil, or where violence and exploitation are suppressed for the sake of public decency.
Lyotard favours ‘micronarratives’ that can go in any direction, that reflect diversity, that are unpredictable.”
Principally, the grand narratives refer to the great theories of history, science, religion, politics. For example, Lyotard rejects the ideas that everything is knowable by science or that as history moves forward in time, humanity makes progress. He would reject universal political ‘solutions’ such as communism or capitalism. He also rejects the idea of absolute freedom.
In studying media texts it is possible also to apply this thinking to a rejection of the Western moralistic narratives of Hollywood film where good triumphs over evil, or where violence and exploitation are suppressed for the sake of public decency.
Lyotard favours ‘micronarratives’ that can go in any direction, that reflect diversity, that are unpredictable.”
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