Tuesday 28 January 2014

"Postmodern media manipulates time and space". To what extent does this definition apply to texts you have studied?

TASK 1:

  • Topic: Postmodernism

  • Aspect: Texts (film, music, games)

  • Viewpoint: Postmodernism manipulates time and space

  • Instruction: "To what extent..."





TASK 2


Opinion:

Completely agree with this statement due to the texts studied showing how time doesn't exist and that space can be manipulated. However it manipulates many things- time and space being just a snippet of what is manipulated.
(37 words)





TASK 3



Detailed plan:


-opinion
-past
-present
-future
-conclude

  1. Intro
    i.      Opinion; agree
    ii.     Fiske; pomo media makes people see things in the way media portray it, not from our own experiences.
    iii.   Derrida; nothing belongs anywhere with anything so therefore postmodern media can (and do) manipulate things such as time and space in order to make the audience think

  2.  Past (5 years)
    - Inception: no concept of time as everything happens at the same time, the time frames in the different films are all different even though they happen at the same time.
    The girl in it can manipulate space to how she wants it to look- can bend walls and create buildings and places etc
    - Inglorious Batsterds: wrong fonts for the wrong genres, wrong music in the wrong genres yet it works.
    The characters speak the native language which means that it is more believable (therefore not manipulating space as it is authentic). Does manipulate time as the ending isn't how the war actually ended.
  3. Music
    DJ Shadow- manipulating songs. Remixing old crap songs (cooking with gas) to make them sound funky and cool so that the public buys into it.
    Manipulating songs from different time periods so that it can sound better. "Tears" by Giorgio Moroder (1970's) was then sampled by DJ Shadow on Organ Donor from his album released in 1996
    Adverts
    Changing the music makes it relaxing and manipulates feelings regarding space
  4. Future
    Postmodernism will continue to develop and be used when manipulating time and space in order to make the audience think. The idea that things are now considered to be "like a movie" (friske) is now applied to everyday life and that will continue to happen as advancements happen in film and in technologies applied to everyday life.
  5. Conclusion
    Further depth and snappy brilliant closing line

TASK 4