Postmodernism is a shortcut to mass audience
Simpson (artwork)
Postmodernism is
-taking the traditional and changing elements to make it new.
-Changing forms e.g. Art to cartoons
-Playful, Ironic, Humorous
-Refers to the past
-Tradition + Present
-Pride and Prejustice AND ZOMBIES?
- Plays with reality
What is postmodernist?
Nobody really knows
Playful interpretations of cultural works from the past
Intertextuality
Reinventing
Mixing of style and influences
Distrust/rejection of past ideas
Examples within music videos
CYCLE - Experimental-Cannon-Postmodern-Experimental etc..
Blues to Beatles 1960's Sergeant Pepper to Electronic- Mobe? uses Gospel and post modernises it
Establish the trends
Works with those trends to fix them into our cultural understanding
Look at the trends, laughs at them, pokes them with a big stick and adds something new
CREATING A NEW EXPERIMENTAL STAGE?!?!?! WHATTT
Short silent films ->Full length talky movies -> music videos referencing film
Becomes new by referring to the old
KEEP CALM AND........
The band wagon + Smooth Criminal
Flash dance + Its Raining Men
Dracula + Everybody
Homage - diamonds or a girls best friend
Pastiche - Top Gun + Will Young Switch It On-
Parody
Courtney - this is progressing fairly well but there's still room for improvement - remember how important it is to maximise your marks on R&P.
ReplyDeleteYou still need posts on: inspirations and an analysis of the song structure / timings; try to show how you are developing your ideas. Also make sure that you use a wide range of presentational devices - moovly, prezi, etc - don't just rely on text.
At present this is just into band 3 / C