As a former AS student I am both thrilled and extactic to be continuing my work with Media Studies. Here are the first set of notes from my first lesson of A2.
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“The Journey” how have your skills expanded from AS?
1A:
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Postmodernism (meaning ‘after modernism, a reaction against
modernism’)
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Digital Technology
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Creativity
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Research and Planning
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Post Production
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Using conventions for red text
1B:
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Genre
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Narrative
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Representation
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Audience
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Class Notes
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Independence Research
Post modernism is a genre- a relevant theory. Post Modern/
modern texts have shared modern conventions- both challenge typical conventions
before them (modern rebelling). Modernism ridicules the past. ‘Pomo’ are
nostalgic toward old ways.
2 Hour Exam:
2 questions on coursework = 25 each = 50
Media question theory = 50
Total = 100
Section B Contemporary
Media Issues:
Subject: Post-Modernism genre
- Case Studies = films/video games/ TV/ music videos
- Issues and debates
- Own independent research
- Contemporary issues
- Audience and Industry
Pessimistic view on Pomo: Art is always to be repeated. Nothing
is original, for every idea has seemed to already have been taken.
Optimistic view on Pomo: Combing old elements to make something
unique altogether.
A Style and concept in the arts characterized by the
distrust of theories and ideologies and by the drawing of attention to
conventions.
Self-contradicting Irony
Post Modernism: How
to spot it:
-Irony
-Playing with conventions
-Black humour
-Intertextuality
- Pastiche
- Magic realism
- Different perspective
- Pushing the boundaries
H/W: My first
thoughts on how to define Post Modernism:
A late 20th
century style on where a form of art diminishes all regarding modernism,
defined by earlier styles and conventions
E.g. - The Simpsons is
classed Pomo.
