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/ Week 11 – Lectorial Reflection /

  By samanthabeniacbrooks • May 20, 2015 ,

‘ The Remix and the Glitch’

Notes I took during the class:

  • The remix & the glitch – breaking things to get at the art
  • There is no such thing as an original idea
  • Remix in pre-digital era was done by the ‘DJ’
  • There were artists that released music specifically for clubs
  • Mash-ups can promote other music.
  • Culture builds on the past and the past always tries to control future

Rip! A remix manifesto – 4:40 -12:15

– Biggie Small – The Notorious B.I.G. –

– Jackson 5 – I want you back

– Lil’ Kim –

– DMX

– B.O.B – nothing on you

– U2

– Get Low (Lil Jon)

 

When thinking about the idea of remixing, I think it is important to consider the fact that these remixes have been created by taking old material and creating something completely new with potentially a different purpose. Does this then make it a breach of copyright if it is just taken to create something new and different?

I believe it is so impossible to not copy anything.. and in my opinion copyright is sometimes a joke. You cannot expect every single human on this earth to come up with something completely new that is not related to anything else.. that’s a ridiculous idea.

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/ Week 8 – Lectorial Reflection /

  By samanthabeniacbrooks • April 28, 2015 , ,

wk8    Narrative//Non-Narrative

In this lecture we discussed Narrative and Non-Narrative. I have never heard of non-narrative before so it was incredibly insightful.

Narrative is any kind of retelling of events and is ‘everything’.

When considering narrative, we must consider:

Causality – cause and effect – Perth to Broome, you must be in Perth to get to Broome. A logical progression from one event to the next.

Character Development: Any kind of story we know of, character development takes time – its rare for us to know exactly who a character is and what their motivations are straight away. They must be presented with a number of situations in which the character must deal with. Allows a character to form from a blank canvas with events.

Plot: Chronological sequence of events in narrative. A person carrying out the action, the action itself and the person it is being carried out with/for.

Resolution:

An end.

“The stuff of story is alive and intangible”

Joseph Campbell; ‘modern myth’ or the ‘heroes journey’ – a pattern of narrative identified in many stories throughout the world.

We were then required to complete an in Class activity where we discussed the Hunger Games and the emotional highs (i.e. Katniss and Peeta winning the games)/lows (Rue dying) and the characters mapped according to prominence (Katniss then Peeta).

Repeated representations set up a pattern of expectations – if we the audience see something enough, we recognise the signs and assume what will happen next.

 

Non-narrative: no main story-line (that is typical or is something that we can assume), no speaking, the characters are just objects.

 

We watched a non-narrative film that had no main-storyline but also had elements of narrative (i.e. headings).

 

This lecture was interesting as often I overlook the importance of narrative as often it comes naturally as we experience it in our every day lives.