Week 1

This week i have  chosen the song 'Hopeless Wanderer' by Mumford and Sons. I thought this song was a pretty good insight on how to lip-syncing would be in an actual music video. However this music video is very comical and funny.

This video was directed by Sam Jones and was made in 2013. The video stars sone of the upcoming actors and comedians

Intertextuality

Intertextuality is an area of postmodernism.

The main concept behind it is the influence a text has on another, and the similarities between the two. One feature of intertextuality is pastiche, which is denying the existence of the original form.

One music video that uses intertextuality is the recent 'Treasure' by Bruno Mars



This video, despite being released in 2013, is styled just like and an intertextual reference to a music video from the 1970s with the costumes, setting and the camera filter among others. In this case intertextuality could be used to have a wider range of audience, because it will remind the older audience of when they were a kid, this is shown by the post-production (editing) by it being similar to what they recognise. Because it is recognisable and they know the main sorce makes it intertextuality and Post-modern. If someone had not seen the main sorce then it wouldn't be post-mondern to them or intertextuality.  
Here is an example of the original text:



The film 'Moulin Rouge' is a Postmodern text, and has features of Intertextuality.
Throughout the film there are various montages of music from the last 50 years such as The Beatles, Nirvana and David Bowie. The film takes place at the turn of the 20th century before this music had been released so is a Pastiche to the music played then as well as to Bollywood films and their style.

Example...

Theorists of intertextuality problematize the status of 'authorship', treating the writer of a text as the orchestrator of what Roland Barthes refers to as the 'already-written' rather than as its originator. This is stating that something we may think is new or recent my have been already done, also that nothing is original. 

Parody and Pastiche

Parody - A Parody is a work that mimics in an absurd or ridiculous way the conventions and style of another work - in order to derive ridicule, ironic comment or affectionate fun. 

Pastiche - is the imitation of another text, work, artist or period. 

Both Parody and Pastiche are work of the Post-modernist theorist Fredrick Jamison, Fredrick Jamison argues that nothing is original in postmodernism and that everything uses another as a stimulus.He once described postmodernism as the spatialization of culture under the pressure of organised capitalism. 

Example of Parody

Original image by Leonardo Da Vinci                                           
             The Mona Lisa
          Circa 1503 - 1507










 Duchamps Parody of the Mona                                       
Lisa adds a Goatee and a mustache 






Example Of Pastiche 

Rizzle Kicks 

Chris Cunningham

Chris Cunningham created the music video 'frozen' for the hit singer Madonna, Chris in his early years had worked with short films and also making them . While producing short films he was asked to do work in music production. He had used his talents and skills to produce some of the most well known videos today. When starting work in the music business he had worked with Warp records. The first video that I had looked at that was produced by Chris cunningham was Madonna frozen, the second video that I will be looking will be by 'Aphex twins'. In my opinion I think that most of the videos that he will involved with are focused on one point. Horror, gothic, dark and deep emotion.In his short movie career he had mainly produced dark films. Examples of these are Alien 3, Alien and Rubber Johnny. All of these films are aimed at a specific crowd, dark and twisted. He also shows this in his music videos, an example of this is in the two music videos, Madonna frozen and Aphex twins come to daddy. In the music videos they contain many different edits and cuts, but they are not shown in the video - this makes it look like it was simple and took no effort.In the video above it shows Chris Cunningham's style, it shows the dark, creepy and emotional. The overall video is about the darkness and the emotion. This is shown by the children in the video, edits and the actors.The video below is another example of Chris Cunningham's work, the video is Madonna Frozen. Again in the video it shows the dark and emotion that is involved with the producer. Chris Cunningham has a pattern that he follows when making videos.

lip syncing

This morning I had performed the 'lip syncing task', in this task I had to lip sync a song from the band 'Foo Fighters'. The song that I had lip synced with two others was learn to fly, I found this task not so challenging, however the other two people felt ashamed  and couldn't do the lip syncing.

Simulation - Simulations generally come in three styles: live, virtual and constructive. A simulation also may be a combination of two or more styles.



Simulacra - Something that replaces reality with its representation. Jean Baudrillard in "The Precession of Simulacra"


Hyper reality -hyperreality is generally defined as a condition in which what is real and what is fiction are blended together so that there is no clear distinction between where one ends and the other begins.