Thursday 28 September 2017

Making Of | Logo

Our group decided on picking one of Greta’s logo ideas among the other ideas of ours. I took it to the Illustrator and refined the line art. From that, I made a miniature version of it which we use in our blog as a blog link. After many of colour variations that Greta tried, we choose the pastel orange bird, with green, blue and purple  colours for the planets. I added the colors in Illustrator and made the header image for the blog. Also  the planet outlines of the logo were used for the blog’s background.

Collaboration Project | Blog Link

Perspectives | Key Words #2

  • Enlightened - learning the truth behind a once believed falsehood, showing understanding about things.
  • Ahistorical - not concerned with/or related to history, historical development, or tradition.
  • Irreducible - not able to reduce or to make smaller or simpler.
  • Objective - having one's opinion not influenced by emotions, but by hard facts.
  • Transparent - understandable, reliable.
  • Universal - holds true for everyone despite their race, sex and religion.
  • Definitive - final version of something that cannot be changed or improved.
  • Fixed - arranged or decided already and not able to be changed.
  • Structuralism - is about breaking something down to its components, examine what it is made of, how those things fit together and thereby understand how all the other things are assambled. In other words, get at the deep structure of that object:what is that essential thing that makes the object what it is and not something else. (One size fits all)
  • Modernism - seeks to find new forms of expression and rejects traditional or accepted ideas.
  • The Enlightenment Project -  is an attempt to explain and define the human being through science and trying to master it through usage of technology.
  • Poststructuralism - different to Sturcuralism, Poststructuralism believes in plurality of meaning, for example the meaning of a sentence is not absolute there are indefinite interpretations to it. In other words, Poststructuralism can be seen as a critique to Structuralism, emphasizing plurality of meaning and instability of concepts Structuralism uses to define society, language etc.
  • "The Unreliable Narrator" - a character who is telling the story not in complete accuracy due to problems with the character's mental state or maturity.

Saturday 23 September 2017

Perspectives | Key Words

  • High Modernism - is a form of modernity, characterized by an unfaltering confidence in science and technology as means to reorder the social and natural world.
  • Capitalism - is an economic system and an ideology based on private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.
  • Superabundance - an excessive amount of something that is beyond the required amount, possibly with negative effect. 
  • Disconnected -  to undo or break the connection of or between something.
  • Schizoid - characterized by a lack of interest in social relationships, a tendency towards a solitary or sheltered lifestyle, secretiveness, emotional coldness, detachment, and apathy.
  • Pop - popular culture of the time; including art, music, fashion.
  • Fragmentary - consisting of/or reduced to fragments; broken; disconnected; incomplete.
  • Eclectic nostalgia -  false sense of nostalgia and pleasant feeling resulting from a number elements that imitate the past.
  • Superficiality - displaying a lack of thoroughness or care, lack of depth in character or thought.
  • Simulacra - is a representation or imitation of a person or thing.
  • Flippant - lacking proper respect or seriousness.
  • Fabulation - to tell invented stories; create fables or stories filled with fantasy. (to relate an event as a fable.)
  • Pastiche - is a work of visual art, literature, theatre, or music that imitates the style or character of the work of one or more other artists.
  • Bricolage - is the construction or creation of a work from a diverse range of things that happen to be available, or a work created by mixed media.
  • Aleatory - of or relating to accidental causes; of luck or chance; unpredictable.
  • Depthless - beyond one's knowledge or capability.
  • Skeptical - doubtful about a particular thing.
  • Ambiguous -  lacking clearness or definiteness.
  • Innovative - tending to create, or introduce something new or different.
  • Obfuscation - to confuse, make something unclear.

Perspectives | Why Is "Kill Bill" Postmodern

"Kill Bill" Poster

Kill Bill: Volume 1  is a 2003 American martial arts film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. Is a well known film in postmodern society. However, why is this film postmodern?

1. Split Into Fragments - "Kill Bill" consists of many different shots and scenes from many other films.

2. Realism disappears - At first the movie takes place in a western country where the main character is involved in realistic fighting scenes. The longer the film continues the further away the in-film characters striveing away from reality. When they fight, they fly across the screen, and jump up without any gravity affection.

3. Changes film styles - Another technique used in "Kill Bill" is Anime scenes. This is a "High Art" Style and makes the audience aware that the world they are watching is artificial.

4. Non-Linear Nerrative - Nonlinear narratives often use flashbacks or flash forwards in which past or future events are revealed through memory or other methods during exposition of a current event. However, there are other ways to use nonlinear narrative in which the narrative flow doubles back on itself while appearing to move forward

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Contrapuntal Music -  The soundtrack in "Kill Bill"  uses Spaghetti Western music and this is a part of the film that references the different films that Tarantino uses for inspiration. Some of the scenes have not maching music, as some of the sound efects are cartoonish, spanish or western type, it keeps transmuting though out the film.