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Tuesday, 15 October 2013
Manson essay
The video “The Dope show” is a
song featured on the ‘98 album mechanical animals by Marilyn Manson it is directed
by Paul Hunter. The song expertly utilises alienation and isolation as a theme
to illustrate postmodernism. Manson also employs intertextual and black humour
by referencing spin and making a parody of it, the audience are expected to
understand the joke and engage more with the video, as they feel like they
relate to him by their mutual share of interest of reading spin, which ties in
with the uses of gratification theory of self identification.
Manson uses a variety of personas
from the beginning till the end of the video. Manson
appears — red-haired, with his entire body, including prosthetic rubber breasts, covered in white latex paint — as an androgynous
extraterrestrial wandering around the Hollywood
Hills. He is captured, studied in a laboratory.
Manson stated in an interview that the media are so consumed by the look of an
artist and resort to being shallow rather than judging by talent, this could be
shown as a way of rebelling and not conoforming to the ideological views.
Sunday, 13 October 2013
Twerking her way to the top (Independent Research).
No such thing as bad press! Miley Cyrus twerks her way to top of BOTH UK singles and albums charts!
She has hit the headlines almost every day since her raunchy performance at the MTV Video Music Awards back in August.
And it seems there is no such thing as bad press for Miley Cyrus as the controversial pop star has gone straight in at number one on both the singles and album charts in the UK.
The 20-year-old is the first artist this year to do the Official Charts number one double - topping the singles chart with Wrecking Ball, and the albums chart with her new album Bangerz.
It comes not long after twerking - the dance move she showed off with the help of singer Robin Thicke during their much-talked-about act - was among a slew of new terms included in an update of the Oxford dictionary.
Reacting to the news of her doubly-whammy, Cyrus told OfficialCharts.com that she 'can't wait' to be back in the UK next month.
She added: ‘I truly appreciate the love I'm getting from the UK.’
The former Hannah Montana star only scored her first ever UK number one single little over two months ago with We Can't Stop.
Her previous highest charting album was 2010's Can't Be Tamed, which peaked at number eight.
Miley’s chart topping coincides with her hitting the headlines once again on Sunday after her partner in crime at the VMAs – Robin Thicke – laid all the blame on her.
In a clip from an upcoming episode of Oprah’s Next Chapter, the 36-year-old singer said he wasn’t aware of Miley’s raunchy antics.
He said: ‘Well, I was on stage, I didn’t see it, you know. So to me, I’m walking out towards Miley, I’m not thinking "sex," I’m thinking "fun”’.
Meanwhile, Eminem claimed this week's second highest new entry - and his 20th top 10 single as a lead artist - with Berzerk.
Conor Maynard debuted at number four with R U Crazy, and The Saturdays are new in at number five with Disco Love.
OneRepublic dropped from number one to three with Counting Stars.
Saul Milton and Will Kennard, aka Chase & Status, went in at number two in the albums chart with their third studio album, Brand New Machine.
Former X Factor star Lucy Spraggan is new in at number seven today with her major label debut Join The Club.
The singer's self-released album, Top Room At the Zoo, peaked at number 22 on the Official Albums Chart last September before she was asked to take it off sale by the show's producers.
Haim's album Days Are Gone has dropped from number one to number five on the chart, while the Arctic Monkeys are at three with AM and Kings of Leon's Mechanical Bull is at number four.
Sunday, 29 September 2013
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 .
Tuesday, 3 September 2013
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.
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/
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/
Sunday, 14 July 2013
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