From the OCR syllabus, not CIE:
REFLECTION ON AS COURSEWORK
- I went into this production quite naively on how creative I could be with the storyline, I see myself as a storyteller, all aspects of Media Studies
- The main conflict for me was always between creative expression and fear about whether it might bring down my grades, also the distribution aspect
- However despite my teacher and in my opinion slightly conservative (not as socially aware/interested) Media students giving me feedback to change the storyline to a heterosexual romance as well as to a very stereotypical nerdy/popular boy romance (makes me vomit)
- Was extremely restricted due to the USE OF CONVENTIONS
- In terms of media language (Mise-en-scene) I enjoyed setting up the room of the protagonist.
HOPES
- I Hope to be able to further my writing skills through creating lyrics
- The whole multimedia nature of the promo package to expand my horizons within the cross-media creative industries, and will have many more opportunities to be creative as I'm not just working one medium as in AS with film, but in film, print and web
- To use new DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES as possible
- The more thorough, stronger and earlier my RESEARCH is, the quicker I can get round to applying it creativity and PLANNING my media products
USEFUL LINKS:
- ProdEval Advice on Creativity, the rest are from the same blog.
- Characteristics of a Music Video; (bite-sized chunks of theory!)
- Web 2.0 + Fan-made vids: Applying YOUR work; (any Q1a answer should cite web 2.0)
- PoMo by louderthanwar blog; (accessible guide to this very key concept)
- POMO Slasher sitcom Holliston @ FearNet.com;
- POMO/NARRATIVE: HI v POP Cul: Austen v TOWIE!; (neat comparison of TOWIE + Jane Austen)
- POMO/CREATIVITY: Warhol's impact and vision; (not JUST about his visual style: his groundbreaking use of looooong takes; prediction of today's we-media [everyone will have their 15 mins of fame]; pertinent to working within a group, his concept of factory production by a team but bearing one artist's [auteur...] name)
- Creativity + MANGeR: Everything is a Remix?;
- CREATIVITY: Tyranny of Genre; (snippet: 'The phrase "tyranny of genre" comes from genre theorist Richard Coe, who wrote that "the 'tyranny of genre' is normally taken to signify how generic structures constrain individual creativity"')
- Does slow pace = boring?; (pace was an issue for you all at AS and A2, linked to aud feedback + genre conventions: are you virtually forced to surrender to market/audience/genre demands for fast pace?). I was forced by the exam criteria to pick a track that had a change of pace of editing, I would have preferred to do a track which was slow.
- Creativity sans la femme + Bechdel Test; feminist Bechdel flags up the tawdry way women are used in film, but also consider the wider lack of women in prominent positions: were you influenced by any female directors, for example, of film/video? Feminism is a theory you should address for this topic. To what extent are the conventions you've used sourced from male practitioners? Sexist? Or does post-feminist thinking end such debates? Has gender effected your approach (useful also to consider if you worked within a mix gender group)?
- Creativity, Narrative: Coens;
- Coens on using Final Cut for Oscar-nommed True Grit;
- Creativity and R+P: Monsters; here's an $800k debut feature by a director who struggled to get financing because he didn't have a full script - like Loach. Leigh etc Gareth Edwards wanted to organically develop his script with his cast during the shoot. Indeed, he hired non-actors as he travelled (entire crew in ONE car!) on location...
- Cultural Imperialism; Is Britishnesss subsumed by dominant American tropes - and do S.Eng rep'ns overwhelmingly dominate UK media output; are your text/s normative or perhaps counter-hegemonic (challenging these normative representations, challenging whats seen as common sense and above questioning?). Have you managed a distinctive UK/Northern/Yorkshire/Ilkley 'voice' or have you overwhelmingly followed patterns laid down by US + London producers?
- The 'Britishness' of your work; rom-com eg but can be applied across the board. How does your nationality come through in your work - or is it simply 'globalised' (perhaps even Americanised? see above post)
- Creativity: Gauntlett + Csikszentmihalyi; snippet: 'Some writers on creativity, such as Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, even suggest that creativity is a phenomenon which only occurs in a social context and cannot be understood, or even recognised, in isolation'
- Metz's theory of genre cycles
- Research the audience expectations of a music vid did you venture outside the typical expectations in any way?
WIKI
I'm not an original thinker, what I'm probably best at doing is synthesising those things in society or culture (another postmodernism blur) that I find rivetingly exciting, and I guess what I end up doing is refracting those things and producing some kind of glob of how it is that we live in this particular time.
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