Wednesday, 25 December 2013
Sunday, 1 December 2013
Wednesday, 27 November 2013
The male gauze
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYhaRcfCEkI
I Believe that Youtube is a good for of teaching as it is easily accessed at home and on phones. We would listen more to a youtube video than our teachers I would say as being teenagers we get distracted easily. Some very famous and favorite youtubers have talked about repeatable and school topics, giving us advice and information, because we have a liking to them we will listen and absorb this more, it is also tailored to our hum our and adapted so we don't lost interest.
-Shows examples from films we would have seen and actors we recognize
-Mixture of clips, images and speech
-Allows us to have our own interpretation before being taught straight up
-Younger speaker talking
-short and simple
-
I Believe that Youtube is a good for of teaching as it is easily accessed at home and on phones. We would listen more to a youtube video than our teachers I would say as being teenagers we get distracted easily. Some very famous and favorite youtubers have talked about repeatable and school topics, giving us advice and information, because we have a liking to them we will listen and absorb this more, it is also tailored to our hum our and adapted so we don't lost interest.
-Shows examples from films we would have seen and actors we recognize
-Mixture of clips, images and speech
-Allows us to have our own interpretation before being taught straight up
-Younger speaker talking
-short and simple
-
Wednesday, 16 October 2013
Tuesday, 3 September 2013
What is postmodernism?
What is postmodernism?
Postmodernism is hard to describe in
a defined dictionary term as it is such an open and subjective word which reflects
on what in fact it means. This is because it is always changing due to the modern
culture world we live in. Its main purpose is to emphasize on the role of power
relations in which it uses to classify labels, goths, emos, chavs. Stereotypes
on males and females and also moral queries on homosexual people. This has also
been described by Fredric Jameson as the “Dominate cult of late capitalism.”
It would be best described as a theory
of what is real and what fantasy is as fantasy can also refer to the media. As we
live in a place where everything is dominated by the media which has massive
influences on our everyday life without us even noticing. Examples of these are
the obsessions young generations have due to the social networking sites of
twitter, facebook and youtube, where the ‘sex appeal’ is the major concern upon
young teenagers and the idea to look ‘perfect’ is in everyone’s mind-set.
The term dates back to the 1870s
where it was use as a general theory of the historical movement, which was then
later used in 1949 to describe the frustration with modern construction that
lead to post-modern culture movement. However in this modern era the ideas that
are conjured into what post-modern is relates to a variety of things which
include, culture, love, marriage, social revolution. This is then often and
associated with unity, authority and certainly while the post modernism is more
towards t difference, and textuality.
A lot of post-modern writers fail
to see the rational side in which scientist
do when it foes to economics, politics, morality and society, especially with
Marxism and Freudianism. Its so open because of conservatism and relatisivn as
we cannot judge our own neighbourhoods from everyone’s point of view as each
will be different depending on their surroundings and experiences.
Modernism was also criticised for
being the subject of a perceived ideal perfection and attempt to create harmony
in peoples mind, as the critics of modernism argued that a perfect mind-set is subjective
to all as we each have our own view on the matter which is individual. Some
significant contributions to the topic come from top literary figures which include
Jorge
Luis Borges, William S. Burroughs, and Samuel Beckett. (Jorge
Luis Borges experimented in metafiction and magical realism, while William S.
Burroughs wrote the prototypical post-modern novel Naked Lunch and developed
the cut up method (similar to Tristan Tzara's "How to Make a Dadaist
Poem") to create other novels such as Nova Express. Samuel Beckett
attempted to escape the shadow of James Joyce by focusing on the failure of
language, schizophrenia, and humanity's inability to overcome its condition,
themes later to be explored in such works as Waiting for Godot.)
So to actually sum up what is post modernism is a lot harder
and broader than you think as one very small word can mean so much more as it
looks.
Thursday, 18 July 2013
Tuesday, 11 June 2013
Narratives
A study of narrative is dependant on an understanding of close reading techniques. Understanding of narrative is helpful across a range of achievement standards.
Narrative explores the way in media can tell a story in different ways, it is also strongly linked to the audience and the purpose of the text. The conventions that are used depend on the medium, as in film, timing would be important, as in magazines the article is of importance and the layout.
The narrative is also very personal, as to each person it can be interpreted differently.
For example in this picture, what do you think the story is? It would depend on the individuals culture background as well. The colour of it, as it is black and white adds age to it and also a different story. The body language, size, uniform will also show a difference and facial expression.
As well as this there are also many codes which we are expect. as in many famous triligie of films and Tv shows, we know certain things that act on a cue. In C.S.I Miami, The main character puts on his glasses, showing that the show is now beginning, we all know this before it actually happens, because it is a certian narrative that does not chance throughout.Other codes such as the enigma, symbol/ signs and cultural references are all used throughout media narratives.
Monday, 10 June 2013
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