The representation of men in films from the 1940's to the 1980's in films

The Representations of Men in Films From the 1940[1]

Creativity

Taken from Media Magazine blog.

One of the possible areas you could be asked about in the exam is creativity. The projects you have undertaken will hopefully have felt like an opportunity to display your creativity, but you will need the chance to discuss what you understand by creativity and what it might mean to be creative.

The assignment options at AS and A2 all offer constraints for your work, whether it be making pages for a music magazine, the opening of a film or the packaging for an album; one of the reasons why you aren't offered total free choice is because people often find that working within constraints gives them something to exercise their creativity, whereas total freedom can sometimes make it really difficult to know where to start. It's why genre can be interesting- how has something been created which fits with certain structures and rules but plays around with them to give us something a little bit different?

The word 'creative' has many meanings- the most democratic meaning would really suggest that any act of making something (even making an idea) might be seen as a creative act. In more elitist versions of the term, it is reserved for those who are seen as highly skilled or original (famous artists, musicians, film-makers etc). an interesting third alternative is to think about how creativity can be an unconscious, random or collaborative act that becomes more than the sum of its parts.

CD meme pool cover

This is the album cover I created by following the creativity exercise. It has shown me that through random ideas and things that have been created by someone else, or by picking a random name and picture you can create something new and interesting. It has also allowed me to use photoshop more, and this has allowed me to explore the program more.

Creativity Exercise

A great shared site for creative random art with some effort is on Flickr with the shared CD meme pool. This is a game where you create a CD cover for an imaginary band and upload it to Flickr; the trick is you have to create it from 'found' materials, again following a set of rules.


1. Generate a name for your band by using WikiPedia's random page selector tool, and using the first article title on whichever page pops up. No matter how weird or lame that band name sounds.

2. Generate an album title by cutting and pasting the last four words of the final quote on whichever page appears when you click on the quotationspage's random quote selector tool. No matter what those four words turn out to be.

3. Finally, visit Flickr's Most Interesting page -- a random selection of some of the interesting things discovered on Flickr within the last 7 days -- and download the third picture on that page. (Even better: Click on this link to get a Flickr photo that's licensed under Creative Commons.) Again -- no cheating! You must use the photo, no matter how you feel about it.

4. Using Photoshop (or whatever method you prefer), put all of these elements together and create your very own CD cover, then upload it to the CD memepool

Applying Jonathan Kramer's Post Modern Music Theory

1.Destinys Child-Get on the bus (Timbaland)
2.Stockhausen-Helicoter String Quartet
3.Alvin Lucier-I Am Sitting in a Room
4.Weird Al Yankovic-Smells like Nirvana
5.your choice

Destinys Child-Get on the bus (Timbaland)


Stockhausen-Helicoter String Quartet


Alvin Lucier-I Am Sitting in a Room


Weird Al Yankovic-Smells like Nirvana

"Weird Al" Yankovic - Smells Like Nirvana Video @ Vidly.net

Bloodhound Gang-Ralph Wiggum

Jonathan Kramer's Posmodern Music Theory

Kramer's Theory
While postmodernism is a difficult concept to define rigorously, it
is possible to characterize postmodern music by the some or all of the
following traits. It
1. is not simply a repudiation of modernism or its continuation, but
has aspects of both,
2. is, on some level and in some way, ironic;
3. does not respect boundaries between sonorities and procedures of
the past and of the present;
4. seeks to break down barriers between "highbrow" and "lowbrow"
styles;
5. shows disdain for the often unquestioned value of structural unity;
6. refuses to accept the distinction between elitist and populist values;
7. avoids totalizing forms (e.g., does not allow an entire piece to be
tonal or serial or cast in a prescribed formal mold);
8. includes quotations of or references to music of many traditions
and cultures;
9. embraces contradictions;
10. distrusts binary oppositions;
11. includes fragmentations and discontinuities;
12. encompasses pluralism and eclecticism;
13. presents multiple meanings and multiple temporalities;
14. locates meaning and even structure in