Stereotypes

according to http://uktribes.com, my persona seems to fit under the stereotypes of Young Alts, due to the description given;


'They’ll read about or listen to a huge variety of bands and try Skater, Emo and even Urban fashions. They also love a lot of mainstream fashion and music. The Young Alts make for a largely safe and non-judgemental Tribe in which to experiment with all of these styles.As they advance into later years, Young Alts specialise and move into different Tribes, but while they are still deciding they are some of the most voracious consumers out there: music, magazines, clothes makeup and haircuts are all sampled and discarded with abandon.

Young Alts are wide eyed to the world and can be influenced by TV, radio and mainstream media. Some of them are still listening to their parents! Of course, the biggest influence is the playground and their friendship groups, and they constantly scour specialist magazines and the internet for news and clues about their favourite scenes.

Young Alts generally adopt their passions from Emos, Scene Kids, Indie Scenesters and Hipsters and rarely create a trend for themselves. Their huge buying power combined with this predictable nature makes them a hugely exciting market. Careful analysis of social media can put marketers ahead of the curve, as can access to Young Alt tastemakers like Zane Lowe.'

Why are some media products described as postmodern? essay plan

Intertextual references: film within a film e.g. inglorious basterds

Hyperreality – the arches on a mcdonalds ‘m’ It is just an ‘m’ yet it means good food due to the association with it.
Self-reflexivity: this involves the seemingly paradoxical combination of self-consciousness and some sort of historical grounding

Irony: Post modernism subverts conventions and negotiates contradictions through irony

Boundaries: Post modernism challenges the boundaries between genres, art forms, theory and art, high art and the mass media, blurring the boundaries of genres.

Constructs: Post modernism is actively involved in examining the constructs society creates including, but not exclusively, the following:

Nation: Post modernism examines the construction of nations/nationality and questions such constructions
Gender: Post modernism reassesses gender, the construction of gender, and the role of gender in cultural formations
Race: Post modernism questions and reassesses constructs of race
Sexuality: Post modernism questions and reassesses constructs of sexuality

POSTMODERNISM, QUESTIONS/CHALLENGES THE CONVENTIONS OF EVERYTHING.
It challenges, genre conventions, gender stereotypes, racial stereotypes, social stereotypes etc. For example, the conventions of what is right and what is wrong within society are blurred.
Scott Pilgrim
• Intertextual references of old games
• Action/love/adventure movie – blurs boundares – fits into more than one thing.
Kick-Ass
• Female hero – not stereotypical ‘damsel in distress’
• Soundtrack comprised of many other superhero film soundtracks put together.
• Little girl with guns/ killing people/swearing unrealism is realistic its unrealistic yet we believe it to be real else the film wouldn’t work

Kramers Theory

Jonathan Kramer
1. Is not simply a repudiation of modernism or its continuation, but has aspects of both a break and an extension
2. Is, on some level and in some way, ironic – Timbaland having animal sounds etc layered behind the track.
3. Does not respect boundaries between sonorities and procedures of the past and of the present
4. Challenges barriers between 'high' (classical) and 'low' (pop, rock, dance etc) styles e.g. Dan Black- Symphonies.
5. Shows disdain for the often-unquestioned value of structural unity – boundaries blurred.
6. Questions the mutual exclusivity of elitist (classical) and populist (pop) values – questions whether they merge together or not.
7. Avoids totalizing forms (e.g., does not want entire pieces to be tonal or serial or cast in a prescribed formal mold)
8. Considers music not as autonomous but as relevant to cultural, social, and political contexts – doesn’t just operate on its own, relevant within cultural, social and political things. E.g. charity singles, Diamonds - Sierra Leone
9. Includes quotations of or references to music of many traditions and cultures – taking elements from different cultures e.g. Kanye West – Drunk & Hot Girls and Can- Sing Swan Song
10. Considers technology not only as a way to preserve and transmit music but also as deeply implicated in the production and essence of music e.g. DJ Shadow, auto tune etc.
11. Embraces contradictions (different to what you expect)
12. Distrusts binary oppositions
13. Includes fragmentations and discontinuities e.g. sampling things, uses sound effect only once.
14. Encompasses pluralism and eclecticism
15. Presents multiple meanings and multiple temporalities
16. Locates meaning and even structure in listeners, more than in scores, performances, or composers – depends on how it relates to you as a person, different cultural expectations etc. has any meaning you want.

The Heartache and Lullabies mix

Title of the mix because all the songs are either about having fun or love or whatever, but most are very melodic like lullabies (apart from the odd one or two!







1) Trouble by NeverShoutNever! (Reminds me of highschool and my first girlfriend)
2) Miss Sobriety by Cute Is What We Aim For (Reminds me of growing up and going separate ways with friends)
3) Lying Is The Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off by Panic! At The Disco (reminds me of my teenage years so far)
4) Forever And Always by Bullet For My Valentine (falling in love and forgetting the complications)
5) If it Means a Lot to You by A Day To Remember (summer ’09)
6) Remembering Sunday (live) by All Time Low (how in life nothing goes the way its supposed to )
7) Fireworks by You Me At Six (reminds me of losing people who I was really close to)
8) Cute Without The 'E' (Cut From The Team) by Taking Back Sunday (being stabbed in the back)
9) Small Talk by Saving Aimee We're The Good Guys (I sung this in the microphone at the bands concert! unforgettable)
10) (I Used To Make Out With) Medusa by Bring Me The Horizon (destresses me through its raw sound)
11) Dammit by Blink 182 (reminds me of Reading festival & my childhood memorys)
12) Blunt Cruisin' by Asher Roth (good times with the lads)
13) Young by Hollywood Undead (feeling like society is against my generation)
14) Let's Hang The Landlord by The King Blues (fun filled punk rock song!)
15) I Love College by Asher Roth (summer ’10)
16) Last Train Home by Lostprophets (is like a backing track to every good memory)

“How have your research and planning skills progressed and allowed you to make more creative decisions?”

At A level, my research and planning skills have progressed and allowed me to make more creative decisions, which can be seen from looking at my AS music magazine foundation portfolio and my A2 music video blog.
At AS, I used many things for my research and planning, which I have improved upon and added to at A2. In AS I used Youtube to find the style of music artists to incorporate into my music magazine, therefore giving it a more authentic and realistic feel. I used Blogger to present my work in an easily interpreted way so my peers and teachers could evaluate my ideas and comment on them, thus using web 2.0 to help improve my final piece of work. Within my blog, I used slideshare to share my slideshow presentations on my blog to also let people see what I was doing and to give feedback on. I used Tubechop to show specific parts of footage so that I could interpret the style into my own work and see if other people agreed that it would enhance my work, and to add to my knowledge, I used Wikipedia and Google in the way of the DIKY Triangle by Tim O’ Reilly, I gained data from Google and Wikipedia, extracted information that was relevant to my task, gained the knowledge for example of specific style conventions of a genre of music, and used my wisdom to understand it and use my knowledge within my work to create a realistic looking music magazine.
However, at A2, I used these same methods, and various others, showing a very articulated knowledge of research and planning which allowed me to make more creative decisions. My use of youtube, to gain understanding of conventions for my music video let me have the knowledge to question and subvert those conventions to make my music video more creative and interesting, and I used google and wikipedia turning my knowledge from the previous year of usage of these tools into wisdom as I learnt to incorporate more of my researched knowledge into my music video enhancing it greatly. I used blogger not only to gain feedback, but to see other peoples ideas and plans for their media products and though how the could enhance my own, along with the addition of using widgets on my blog for example the weather forecast to tell me when it was a good day to shoot my video and pictures. The introduction of my Macbook Pro led to even faster and simpler compiling of knowledge through the internet and its simplicity, with the added bonus of professional editing programs to enhance and add to the creativeness of my research, letting me make animatics simply by the use of iMovie to create the effect of the type of music video I was creating.
Web 2.0 was a great influence on my planning and research, as interaction on websites such as Facebook, twitter and blogger all allowed a variety of peers to help enhance my ideas and offer other ones, to broaden my creative skills, by introducing new ways of adapting data and challenging it for effect within specific media conventions, which links into the UGC (user Generated Content) in which ‘amateur comment is now taken as seriously as information created by the professionals’ Andrew Keenan

4. What does the notion of creative teaching and learning imply?

In order to be creative, we have to know what to do to make it creative. For example we were told to make a music video to fit or challenge stereotypical conventions by choosing the song, shots and the whole video making it very creative. Therefore I believe that creativity has to be started by some guidelines that aren’t not very creative to make something very creative.

3. Is creativity an inevitable social good, invariably progressive, harmonious and collaborative; or is it capable of disruption, political critique a

Creativity seems capable of disruption and even anti social outcomes. For example Hitler was creative at killing many people very fast, this could be viewed as creative however it is not a good thing. Creativity is also as much individual as it is collective, as I worked independently on my music video, and was still successful in being creative and making my music video.