Participation
Daft Punk allows people to participate within 'harder, better, faster, stronger' through the use of an app which gives the sound samples used by Daft punk so anyone could attempt to replicate their song.
Modification
DJ Shadow uses modification to mix many various different sound samples to create his own brand new song, through the use of DJ decks and scratching etc.
Authenticity Disrupted
Dan black uses his music and video to emphasise that it is a copy of something else, nearly every element within the music video and song has been copied, except from its song lyrics.
Originality
Dan Black and DJ Shadow can all be questioned about their originality, as although they all use other songs, which is unoriginal, they create brand new, never before heard music which could be called 'original'.
Does knowing how to make it, or making it easy to reproduce make it less impressive?
yes it does kind of because it makes everybody feel like they have the same amount of skill as daft punk for example in the app, however, not everyone does it because everyone can try to recreate the songs, however it will never be exactly the same as the original song.
Monday, 21 March 2011
Wednesday, 16 March 2011
The Death Of Uncool - iPod Shuffle
1. Bloc Party – Song For Clay (Disappear Here)
2. The Blackout – I Know You Are, But What Am I
3. Asher Roth – She Don’t Wanna Man
4. Marina & The Diamonds – Obsessions
5. Lady Gaga – Eh,Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)
6. 3OH!3 – Don’t Trust Me
7. Papa Roach – Days Of War
8. Panic At The Disco – But It’s Better If You Do
9. Forever The Sickest Kids – Breakdown
10. The All American Rejects – Dirty Little Secret
2. The Blackout – I Know You Are, But What Am I
3. Asher Roth – She Don’t Wanna Man
4. Marina & The Diamonds – Obsessions
5. Lady Gaga – Eh,Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)
6. 3OH!3 – Don’t Trust Me
7. Papa Roach – Days Of War
8. Panic At The Disco – But It’s Better If You Do
9. Forever The Sickest Kids – Breakdown
10. The All American Rejects – Dirty Little Secret
Sunday, 6 March 2011
Fight club; possibly weaved into this music video?
just a quick blog to say i was watching this music video and it weaves fight club video into it (i think)
and uses subliminal messaging and many other conventions shown within the film.
one of my favourite songs, and now ive found intertextuality within it.
enjoy!
and uses subliminal messaging and many other conventions shown within the film.
one of my favourite songs, and now ive found intertextuality within it.
enjoy!
Monday, 28 February 2011
why scott pilgrim failed
Scott pilgrim only got $10 million in earnings and made almost half of its total on opening night, whilst its $60 million budget is extremely out of grasp.
Here are 5 reasons for why it was such a box office flop.
People Over 30 Don't Get It
The movie's marketing was such an accurate representation of the film I think it's fair to say that most of the people who saw ads for it had a good idea of what they were going to see, And they didn't want to see it. In particular people over the age of 30 didn't want to see it. It's a movie about the kinds of individuals anyone over 30 with a job would like to see introduced to a cattle prod, watching a kid whine about how he has to be in bands and stuff and hang out a lot is a very accurate representation of this whole film. It looked like a movie about kids, for kids. However, the target audience wasn’t as good as it seems as you will see in my next point.
People Under 30 Don't Get It
While Scott Pilgrim is about teens and recent teens, the way it goes about telling its story isn't exactly teen friendly. The film is full of video game culture references. However, it’s evident right from the movie's first frame where the Universal Pictures logo is redone using 8-bit graphics, which look like they were created for the original NES, which is when the target audience wasn’t even born, which is a pretty major mistake. The movie's steeped not just in video games, but in classic video game references which kids probably aren't interested in and even if they were, almost certainly wouldn't get. However, even more references that only an older generation would get are included in the film, such as a Seinfeld scene and the desert sequence is a reference to Wayne's World 2. For most kids, the Atari 2600 is just something you get on a t-shirt, and if you reference Super Mario Bros. 2 in a movie, there's a pretty good chance they won't know what it is.
Geeks Don't Get It
Scott Pilgrim is not exactly a geek film. This is a movie about a slacker musician who's biggest problem is choosing which of the two ‘hot’ girls he's dating he most wants to sleep with. He spends his nights hanging out at cool clubs where he rocks out on stage and his days planning another balls to the wall brawl with an enemy. This is a movie about guys who are in bands, not geeks sitting around in their parents' basements playing World of Warcraft. It doesn't have any geeks in it and, apparently, none of them showed up to see it either. Odds are most geeks simply didn't get the appeal of a movie about cool guys with guitars pretending to like video games and stayed home with an actual video game called Starcraft II.
People Hate Michael Cera
There's a reason this viral video containing a collection of shots in which Michael Cera gets punched in the face was insanely popular, and no it isn't because people were excited about Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. While he has his fans, people hate Michael Cera. In particular they hate that he always plays the same character and he did it again in Scott Pilgrim. Which is another reason it flopped, too many people hate the leading man.
Scott Pilgrim Is A Musical Without Songs
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is a musical. Not because of the indie-rock soundtrack, there aren't really many songs in the film and there's definitely no dancing. Instead what Edgar Wright has done is take the musical format and apply it to, fighting. In a musical characters break into song and dance whenever there's something too big to be expressed by words. Scott Pilgrim uses its fights in the same way. Scott Pilgrim fights whenever there's something too big to express with dialogue, something too important to simply say. It's through these elaborate, colorful, fights that Scott's personality changes and grows. It's because of his fights that he eventually realizes he lacks self-respect, and when he gets some, that's part of a fight too. Except musicals aren't for everyone. the same things which people hate about musicals are present in the trailers and, whether they knew it or not, probably had a hand in keeping them away. Some people simply don't get musicals. Normally that's ok since there's a dedicated crowd of moviegoers who do get it, and show up for a musical anyway, but the musical moviegoer isn't showing up for a fight movie and neither did anyone else.
There were big expectations for Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, but only from the handful of people who'd already seen it. But it was always a movie without a specific audience. It's a broad movie built on a lot of different niche elements, and as much as we'd like to believe moviegoers are open-minded enough to step outside their comfort zone, most of the time they won't. The mistake was in thinking that all the different audiences Scott Pilgrim speaks to were the same audience, when they're not.
People say it's become cool to be a geek. That's not true. People have just started applying the word geek to cool people. Hipsters aren't geeks and geeks aren't rock musicians and rock musicians aren't old school gamers and aging gamers don't like musicals. In a perfect world none of that would matter and people would simply show up to the theater and be blown away by the innovative level of creativity on display in Scott Pilgrim, but you have to get them there first.
Maybe Universal could have lied more in the marketing, but it's hard to fault them for being honest about the movie they had to offer. They were proud of Edgar Wright's work, and advertised it accordingly. Deadline says Universal knew it would flop, but they also knew it was good, and simply didn't care. Perhaps they're banking on it finding new life as a massive cult hit on DVD, and that's exactly what it deserves to be. Scott Pilgrim's a flop and it'll take a minor miracle to turn that around before theater owners give up and stop showing it. But maybe, if it's lucky, Pilgrim will find new life somewhere down the road as a must-see Netflix rental. Whether they're potheads or nerds, ravers or comic book readers, they'll thank you for it. It's Scott Pilgrim fans vs. the World.
Here are 5 reasons for why it was such a box office flop.
People Over 30 Don't Get It
The movie's marketing was such an accurate representation of the film I think it's fair to say that most of the people who saw ads for it had a good idea of what they were going to see, And they didn't want to see it. In particular people over the age of 30 didn't want to see it. It's a movie about the kinds of individuals anyone over 30 with a job would like to see introduced to a cattle prod, watching a kid whine about how he has to be in bands and stuff and hang out a lot is a very accurate representation of this whole film. It looked like a movie about kids, for kids. However, the target audience wasn’t as good as it seems as you will see in my next point.
People Under 30 Don't Get It
While Scott Pilgrim is about teens and recent teens, the way it goes about telling its story isn't exactly teen friendly. The film is full of video game culture references. However, it’s evident right from the movie's first frame where the Universal Pictures logo is redone using 8-bit graphics, which look like they were created for the original NES, which is when the target audience wasn’t even born, which is a pretty major mistake. The movie's steeped not just in video games, but in classic video game references which kids probably aren't interested in and even if they were, almost certainly wouldn't get. However, even more references that only an older generation would get are included in the film, such as a Seinfeld scene and the desert sequence is a reference to Wayne's World 2. For most kids, the Atari 2600 is just something you get on a t-shirt, and if you reference Super Mario Bros. 2 in a movie, there's a pretty good chance they won't know what it is.
Geeks Don't Get It
Scott Pilgrim is not exactly a geek film. This is a movie about a slacker musician who's biggest problem is choosing which of the two ‘hot’ girls he's dating he most wants to sleep with. He spends his nights hanging out at cool clubs where he rocks out on stage and his days planning another balls to the wall brawl with an enemy. This is a movie about guys who are in bands, not geeks sitting around in their parents' basements playing World of Warcraft. It doesn't have any geeks in it and, apparently, none of them showed up to see it either. Odds are most geeks simply didn't get the appeal of a movie about cool guys with guitars pretending to like video games and stayed home with an actual video game called Starcraft II.
People Hate Michael Cera
There's a reason this viral video containing a collection of shots in which Michael Cera gets punched in the face was insanely popular, and no it isn't because people were excited about Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. While he has his fans, people hate Michael Cera. In particular they hate that he always plays the same character and he did it again in Scott Pilgrim. Which is another reason it flopped, too many people hate the leading man.
Scott Pilgrim Is A Musical Without Songs
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is a musical. Not because of the indie-rock soundtrack, there aren't really many songs in the film and there's definitely no dancing. Instead what Edgar Wright has done is take the musical format and apply it to, fighting. In a musical characters break into song and dance whenever there's something too big to be expressed by words. Scott Pilgrim uses its fights in the same way. Scott Pilgrim fights whenever there's something too big to express with dialogue, something too important to simply say. It's through these elaborate, colorful, fights that Scott's personality changes and grows. It's because of his fights that he eventually realizes he lacks self-respect, and when he gets some, that's part of a fight too. Except musicals aren't for everyone. the same things which people hate about musicals are present in the trailers and, whether they knew it or not, probably had a hand in keeping them away. Some people simply don't get musicals. Normally that's ok since there's a dedicated crowd of moviegoers who do get it, and show up for a musical anyway, but the musical moviegoer isn't showing up for a fight movie and neither did anyone else.
There were big expectations for Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, but only from the handful of people who'd already seen it. But it was always a movie without a specific audience. It's a broad movie built on a lot of different niche elements, and as much as we'd like to believe moviegoers are open-minded enough to step outside their comfort zone, most of the time they won't. The mistake was in thinking that all the different audiences Scott Pilgrim speaks to were the same audience, when they're not.
People say it's become cool to be a geek. That's not true. People have just started applying the word geek to cool people. Hipsters aren't geeks and geeks aren't rock musicians and rock musicians aren't old school gamers and aging gamers don't like musicals. In a perfect world none of that would matter and people would simply show up to the theater and be blown away by the innovative level of creativity on display in Scott Pilgrim, but you have to get them there first.
Maybe Universal could have lied more in the marketing, but it's hard to fault them for being honest about the movie they had to offer. They were proud of Edgar Wright's work, and advertised it accordingly. Deadline says Universal knew it would flop, but they also knew it was good, and simply didn't care. Perhaps they're banking on it finding new life as a massive cult hit on DVD, and that's exactly what it deserves to be. Scott Pilgrim's a flop and it'll take a minor miracle to turn that around before theater owners give up and stop showing it. But maybe, if it's lucky, Pilgrim will find new life somewhere down the road as a must-see Netflix rental. Whether they're potheads or nerds, ravers or comic book readers, they'll thank you for it. It's Scott Pilgrim fans vs. the World.
Monday, 14 February 2011
Kick-Ass Soundtrack
1."Stand Up" - The Prodigy
2."Kick Ass (Radio Edit)" - Mika vs. RedOne
3."Can't Go Back" - Primal Scream
4."There's a Pot Brewin'" - The Little Ones
5."Omen" - The Prodigy
6."Make Me Wanna Die" - The Pretty Reckless
7."Banana Splits (Kick-Ass Film Version)" - The Dickies
8."Starry Eyed" - Ellie Goulding
9."This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us" - Sparks
10."We're All In Love" -The New York Dolls
11."Bongo Song" - Zongamin
12."Per Qualche Dollaro in Più (For a Few Dollars More)"- Ennio Morricone
13."Bad Reputation" - The Hit Girls
14."An American Trilogy"-Elvis Presley
2."Kick Ass (Radio Edit)" - Mika vs. RedOne
3."Can't Go Back" - Primal Scream
4."There's a Pot Brewin'" - The Little Ones
5."Omen" - The Prodigy
6."Make Me Wanna Die" - The Pretty Reckless
7."Banana Splits (Kick-Ass Film Version)" - The Dickies
8."Starry Eyed" - Ellie Goulding
9."This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us" - Sparks
10."We're All In Love" -The New York Dolls
11."Bongo Song" - Zongamin
12."Per Qualche Dollaro in Più (For a Few Dollars More)"- Ennio Morricone
13."Bad Reputation" - The Hit Girls
14."An American Trilogy"-Elvis Presley
Monday, 7 February 2011
Pluralism and relativism
Pluralism is a belief that there is no one answer to anything, which is much like postmodernism. There are two types of pluralism:
Firstly there is Normative pluralism/relativism (or nihilism) is the acceptance of all narratives, expressions and norms, claiming that no one is better than all the others, which is a very bleak view.
Secondly, (the view we have looked at) there is a kind of postmodernism which is pluralist in the sense that it accepts different views, without denying that something is better than other things. For example accepting someone’s view, but not agreeing with it. It is this second kind, which allows some form of rebuttal to criticisms of Postmodernism (like those put forward by Jameson) and perhaps stops it being so annoyingly smug a theory.
Firstly there is Normative pluralism/relativism (or nihilism) is the acceptance of all narratives, expressions and norms, claiming that no one is better than all the others, which is a very bleak view.
Secondly, (the view we have looked at) there is a kind of postmodernism which is pluralist in the sense that it accepts different views, without denying that something is better than other things. For example accepting someone’s view, but not agreeing with it. It is this second kind, which allows some form of rebuttal to criticisms of Postmodernism (like those put forward by Jameson) and perhaps stops it being so annoyingly smug a theory.
Hollywood Grand Narratives
Remember Marshall McLuhan view that 'the medium is the message', this is certainly the case with Hollywood cinema. In terms of medium, film genre serves as the medium
There is a view that only 7 narratives exist
Overcoming the Monster A terrifying, all-powerful, life-threatening monster whom the hero must confront in a fight to the death. An example of this plot is seen in Beowulf, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Dracula.
Rags to Riches Someone who has seemed to the world quite commonplace is shown to have been hiding a second, more exceptional self within. Think the ugly duckling, Jane Eyre and Clark Kent.
The Quest From the moment the hero learns of the priceless goal, he sets out on a hazardous journey to reach it. Examples are seen in The Odyssey, The Aeneid, The Count of Monte Cristo, and Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Voyage and Return The hero or heroine and a few companions travel out of the familiar surroundings into another world completely cut off from the first. While it is at first marvellous, there is a sense of increasing peril. After a dramatic escape, they return to the familiar world where they began. Alice in Wonderland and The Time Machine are obvious examples; but Brideshead Revisited and Gone with the Wind also embody this basic plotline.
Comedy Following a general chaos of misunderstanding, the characters tie themselves and each other into a knot that seems almost unbearable; however, to universal relief, everyone and everything gets sorted out, bringing about the happy ending. Shakespeare’s comedies come to mind, as do Jane Austen’s perfect novels.
Tragedy A character through some flaw or lack of self-understanding is increasingly drawn into a fatal course of action which leads inexorably to disaster. King Lear, Madame Bovary, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Bonnie and Clyde—all flagrantly tragic.
Rebirth There is a mounting sense of threat as a dark force approaches the hero until it emerges completely, holding the hero in its deadly grip. Only after a time, when it seems that the dark force has triumphed, does the reversal take place. The hero is redeemed, usually through the life-giving power of love. Many fairy tales take this shape; also, works like Silas Marner and It’s a Wonderful Life.
Jean-François Lyotard
Lyotard rejected what he called the “grand narratives” or universal “meta-narratives.”
Basically, the grand narratives (big stories) refer to the great theories of history, science, religion, politics. For example, Lyotard rejects the ideas that everything is knowable by science or that as history moves forward in time, humanity makes progress, and therefore he also rejects that everyone follows one of three grand narratives, and introduced the idea of micronarratives.
Lyotard favours ‘micronarratives’ (little stories) that can go in any direction, that reflect diversity, that are unpredictable, which show that everyone is different and everyone has their own stories.
There is a view that only 7 narratives exist
Overcoming the Monster A terrifying, all-powerful, life-threatening monster whom the hero must confront in a fight to the death. An example of this plot is seen in Beowulf, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Dracula.
Rags to Riches Someone who has seemed to the world quite commonplace is shown to have been hiding a second, more exceptional self within. Think the ugly duckling, Jane Eyre and Clark Kent.
The Quest From the moment the hero learns of the priceless goal, he sets out on a hazardous journey to reach it. Examples are seen in The Odyssey, The Aeneid, The Count of Monte Cristo, and Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Voyage and Return The hero or heroine and a few companions travel out of the familiar surroundings into another world completely cut off from the first. While it is at first marvellous, there is a sense of increasing peril. After a dramatic escape, they return to the familiar world where they began. Alice in Wonderland and The Time Machine are obvious examples; but Brideshead Revisited and Gone with the Wind also embody this basic plotline.
Comedy Following a general chaos of misunderstanding, the characters tie themselves and each other into a knot that seems almost unbearable; however, to universal relief, everyone and everything gets sorted out, bringing about the happy ending. Shakespeare’s comedies come to mind, as do Jane Austen’s perfect novels.
Tragedy A character through some flaw or lack of self-understanding is increasingly drawn into a fatal course of action which leads inexorably to disaster. King Lear, Madame Bovary, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Bonnie and Clyde—all flagrantly tragic.
Rebirth There is a mounting sense of threat as a dark force approaches the hero until it emerges completely, holding the hero in its deadly grip. Only after a time, when it seems that the dark force has triumphed, does the reversal take place. The hero is redeemed, usually through the life-giving power of love. Many fairy tales take this shape; also, works like Silas Marner and It’s a Wonderful Life.
Jean-François Lyotard
Lyotard rejected what he called the “grand narratives” or universal “meta-narratives.”
Basically, the grand narratives (big stories) refer to the great theories of history, science, religion, politics. For example, Lyotard rejects the ideas that everything is knowable by science or that as history moves forward in time, humanity makes progress, and therefore he also rejects that everyone follows one of three grand narratives, and introduced the idea of micronarratives.
Lyotard favours ‘micronarratives’ (little stories) that can go in any direction, that reflect diversity, that are unpredictable, which show that everyone is different and everyone has their own stories.
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