Genre

Post-Modern Audience Theories

a ‘postmodern’ blurring of boundaries between industrial practices, technologies, and cultural forms -Participatory Media: With participatory media, the boundaries between audiences and creators become blurred and often invisible.

Micro Essays: Creativity

In my opinion I think I was creative throughout my AS coursework and my A2 coursework, for instance in my group’s thriller we incorporated a psychotic main character who’s makeup was erratic, a soundtrack which was eerie and a decrepit public toilet in order to create the thriller convention of suspense and mystery, and for mine and my partner’s music video we used a church for one of our locations in order to create the religious image of our band, accompanied by various camera angles and camera shots such as through the wall and a dolly zoom, which allowed us to portray our band and protagonist in innovative ways.

Without technology we would not have had the resources in order to research during our pre-production stage, shoot during our production stage or manipulate out footage or photographs using Final Cut Pro and Photoshop in our post-production and hence we would not have a thriller, music video or campaign. Furthermore, without technology the presentation of the research and planning would not have been as creative and would have been presented on the modern pen and paper, therefore technology, in my opinion did enhance my creativity.

What ideas did you communicate and what stylistic techniques did you use? How did you relate it to your interests/vision of identity? Meaning

In both of my production’s, our target audience was male and female, which made our audience wider. For instance in AS, even though we had a female lead character, she was transgender and therefore was a representation of both a boy and girl, and due to her masculine personality and feminine looks, she appealed to a male audience also.

Was this original or did you add something extra to as original media text?

Would you take any creative skills into future projects or have you been influenced to engage these skills in any other projects?

Homework Task 5 - Exam Content Plan

Task 5.

Exam content plan
Respond to each of the prompts using only images or video clips relevant to our Media Case Study Texts, Theorists, Theories etc (Society of the Spectacle geddit?)

This is your essay's 'list of Ingredients'...remember No Words, only Visuals.

What is Postmodern Media (after or collapsing Modernism, empty, no belief in progress o meaning)

1. Give examples of aspects of Postmodern Style (Jameson)

2. Give examples of aspects of Postmodernity Historical/Structural (Lyotard (POST-Modern)

3. Give examples of aspects of Postmodern Theory (Baudrillard, Dubord, Foucault)

4. Which 3 Theorists will you reference - and what theories

Jameson - Cultural recycling

 Jean Baudrillard - Simulacra and Simulation

 Jean-Francis Lyotard - Metanarratives


5. Which 2 or 3 different media forms and what approach makes them Postmodern

6. Compare 3 ways they are similarly and differently Postmodern

7. Give example of an earlier Postmodern Media Text (Intertextual references for our Case Studies?) 

8. How we have moved on from then to your contemporary text?

9. An example of a prediction for the future of Postmodern Media based on one of the Case Studies - where are we headed (Black Mirror?)

Homework Task 3 - 15 Million Merits - Intertextual References

Homework Task 2 - Gaga/Wreck-It Ralph Linked to Theorists

Homework Task 4 - Extranormal - Lyotard

Homework Task 1 - White Bear