We made you paragraph - narrative

The video “We made you” by Eminem utilises intertextual references and pastiche to create a sense of disorientation and black humour. The fact that Eminem dresses in multiple personas i.e. dressing as a range of celebrates from men to women engages the audience more, as it’s refreshing to see something new and diverse. In most videos the Lyrics are extremely important to deciphering the meaning behind the video; however Eminem expertly uses the audience’s knowledge of pop culture in the video, so if we just view the video without the actual lyrics we would be able to understand what he is saying. The video itself has no narrative structure as the concept of the video is just to “Celebrity bash”, so there isn't an enigma in the video.  There is various iconography used to depict celebrities, i.e. the infamous shorts, boots and blonde hair of Jessica Simpson.

 

My course work video is A Thousand years by Christina Perri. The main theme of the video is love, I am going to utilise imagery and iconography to convey meaning through the use of couples of different ages. I plan to have a range of couples to show the diversity of romance. My main protagonist is going to be a child, as I want to depict and connote the innocence and virtue of love. I plan on making direct links to lyrics and make it link with the visual aspects aka the video, so when she is singing about years (Age), i am making a connection by having different  aged couples .

Essay on Post modernity

Post-modernism –
I define post modernism as pushing boundaries of human activity through art or any form of media , we are presented with celebrities who try depicting that through their outrageous style, a prime example is Lady gaga, who challenges the stereotype of a pop singer, she is very modern and pushes the threshold of fashion and the music industry, with her "out there" songs, she is very similar to Marilyn Manson.

How do  people define post-modernism? Well according to the theorist Charles Jencks it is “Post-modernism is fundamentally the eclectic mixture of any mixture of its immediate past, it is both the continuation of modernism and transcendence”.  I also decided to research the proper term in the Oxford dictionary, “A style by a distrust of theories and ideologies and by the drawing of attention to conventions”. Post modernists claim that in media saturated world, where we are constantly immersed in media, 24/7 - and on the move, at work, at home - the distinction between reality and the media representation of it becomes blurred and invisible to us. In other words, we no longer have any sense of the difference between real things and images of them, or real experiences and simulations of them. Media reality is the new reality.

Baudrillard (Born 1929 – 2007) wrote a philosophical treatise called simulacra and simulation. Simulacra and simulation is most known for its discussion of images, signs and how they relate to present day. Baudrillard claims that modern society has replaced all reality and meaning with symbols and signs and that the human experience is of a simulation of reality rather than reality itself..
Post-modernist film can be seen to voice the ideas of post-modernism through the cinematic medium. Post modernist film upsets the mainstream conventions of narrative structure and characterization and destroys (or, at least, toys with) the audiences suspension of disbelief to create a work in which a less recognizable internal logic forms the films mean of expression.
http://mediachs.edublogs.org/13-postmodern-media/