Week 7 Lecture Notes:




 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Week 3 - Barbara Bolt's essay 'The Magic is in Handling'

 This reading was predominantly about 'practice-led research' and the benefits of learning as you go, rather than having a dedicated time to prepare before you start your practice. Practice-led research is a process where the 'theory emerges from the reflexive practice at the same time that the practice is informed by theory.', in some sense it is a mutually beneficial process for both areas of the practice as they grow together.  Within the reading there is an argument from Martin Heidegger 'In being and Time' where he states 'we do not come to 'know' the world theoretically through contemplative knowledge in the first instance. Rather, we come to know the world theoretically only after we have come to understand it through handling'. This is seen extremely often, even at University. In our course it's all good learning about the different theories, but you only truly learn and understand them, when you finally put them into practice yoursel...
Read more

Week 4 Montage - Battleship Potempkin - Odessa Steps scene (Einsenstein 1925)

Image
This here is a successful use of a montage sequence with the scene cutting from the boys reaction to two different people. In the first scene we see the women twirling her umbrella and smiling, and from this we see the reaction of the boy look concerned. At this moment we are unaware why his face is like this as there is nothing signifying to the audience that we should be concerned. But with the use of editing, we cut to the image of the limbless man waving, which gives some explanation to the viewer to possibly why he feels uncomfortable to wave. Later on we see the boy is somewhat forced to wave and this begins to create some questions for the viewer.  The most important thing to understand form this is with the use of a montage you have the possibility to lose geographical location and because of this the viewer has to question what the individual is looking at. This is a good tool to use in your work, as it allows for each viewer to have a different view of the scene. It is no...
Read more

Week 2 Reading - Phoebe-Jane Boyd's recent Guardian commentary on "sexy selfies"

 This article explores the history of women being presented in a sexual manner as an explanation to why we have seen this transfer into today's common selfies. A quote used in this reading by Berger is used as a historical look on this matter: 'men look at women. Women look at themselves being looked at'. This gives some explanation to why throughout history we have seen a frequent depiction of women in this way, for male pleasure.  This articles overall explanation for the posting of sexual selfies is that it is an 'evolutionary game' and the winners 'maximise their lot in life'. Of course this is somewhat reductionist as it implies that the attention of a man is the only thing to strive for, as with it you have 'won' in life. But, this idea stems from the history of it all, where this was true. So it is possible to argue that those ideologies have been inheritably passed onto to todays society, therefore giving an explanation for why so many female...
Read more