AUDIENCE ESSAY

Audience Essay

SECOND DRAFT ESSAY

PM MEDIA

VOODOO CHILD

1b media

ARTIST RESEARCH TASK

"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

Postmodern Media Manipulates Time and Space

PASTICHE AND HOMAGE

• HOMAGE: Making your work deliberately like someone elses work as a way of paying tribute/paying respect to their work. In a good way. For example, Lady Gaga making her music deliberately like Madonnas in order to show respect to her as an artist and fellow musician.
• PASTICHE: Deliberately taking the piss out of other peoples work by using the worst bits to prove a point of how bad it is. For example, Scary Movie using bad bits of bad films and putting it together to make a comical and humorous.

CONTRADICTION

Post modernism is a contradiction. 

"Everything is equal and there is no absolutes" < an absolute statement regarding absolutes.

DAFT PUNK

Have the ability to take something old and transform it into something new and current. Therefore making the music they sample ageless. Daft Punk (French House duo) are heavily influenced by the music genre 'Disco' which became extremely popular before quickly becoming unpopular again due to the cheesiness of the sound. Daft Punk took disco and incorporated music from the 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's into their music making Disco sound modern as well as the music sampled within the songs.

DAFT PUNK IMAGE- HOW THEY COPY. HOMAGE.

This image which I have created shows some of the ways which Daft Punk have copied some features of space based cartoons in their video for "One More Time"

• Albator 84
• Interstellar 5555-  numbers
• Cheesiness- big grin (shown in the image)
• Ulysses 31
• Interstellar 5555- numbers
• Blue aliens
• Theme tune- similar to the sound
• Battle of the Planets
• "Campness"

"DEATH OF UNCOOL" PLAYLIST

1. UNIVERSALLY SPEAKING- Red Hot Chilli Peppers- rock

2. SEXY BACK- Justin Timberlake- pop/r&b

3. I'M NOT THE ONE- The Black Keys- rock

4. TURQUOISE- Kilo Kish- alt hip hop

5. THE QUEEN IS DEAD- The Smiths- indie/rock

6. HEARTBEAT- Scouting For Girls- indie/pop

7. DON'T SAVE ME- Haim- rock

8. SHOOT THE RUNNER- Kasabian- rock

9. ONE MORE TIME- Daft Punk- electronic

10. HEART ATTACK- One Direction- pop

11. GIRLS-  Calvin Harris- electro house

12. THE GLORY- Kanye West- hip hop