Nelly Luckett : BA (Hons) Computer Animation Arts, UCA Rochester

This week’s lecture was on Hyper reality. Research Simulacra and simulation - Jean Baudrillard David Boyle - Authenticity Definitions Pornification  - the increasing occurrence and acceptance of sexual themes and explicit imagery in popular or mainstream culture (3rd Order) Hyper realism  - particularly highly realistic, to the point of being more real than real Simulation - imitation of a situation or process Simulacra  - an image or representation of someone or something Fake news  - false stories that appear on the news, internet or in other media, usually to influence politics or opinions Simulacra and Simulation is a philosophical treatise by Jean Baudrillard Human experience - simulation of reality rather than reality itself An individual in a postmodern world is an entity influenced by media, technological experience, and the hyper real “We live, not inside reality, but inside our representations of it.” Hyper reality makes co...

This week’s lecture was on Ouroborus or story loops. Definitions Ouroborus - a circular symbol of a snake or dragon devouring its own tail, standing for infinity Meta  - talks about its own category Metafiction - fiction about fiction Metanarratives  - philosophies mentioned before Metafiction - fiction which is self-consciously reflects upon its own nature, modes of production etc. Mise en abyme  - “placing into infinity” or “placing into the abyss” Intertextuality - the shaping of a text’s meaning by another text The 4th wall - a performance convention in which an invisible, imagined wall separates actors from the audience. While the audience can see through this “wall”, the actors act as if they cannot.  Metafiction was coined in 1970 as experimental texts that broke with the tradition of literary realism Mise en abyme is commonly used to describe standing between two mirrors to create infinite images. It is used in deconstruction to describe...

Todays lecture was on a theory called the Derrida virus. Research Jaques Derrida - philosopher Nikos A Salingaros- The Derrida Virus, 2003 Christopher Butler - Postmodernism: A very short introduction Judith Butler - Gender is performative Definitions Ideology  - a systematic body of concepts especially about human life or culture Binary Opinions - one thing OR another (eg. M/F, X/Y, Straight/Gay, White/Black Normativity - phenomenon in human societies of designating some actions or outcomes as good or desirable or permissible, and others as bad or undesirable or impermissible Binary Opposition - A pair of mutually-exclusive signifiers in a paradigm set representing categories which are logically opposed and which together define a complete universe of discourse.  Deconstruction  - a method of critical analysis of philosophical and literary language which emphasises the internal workings of language and conceptual systems, the relational quality o...

This lecture was based around the debate of who owns a piece of work that has been released to the public. Publications to research Roland Barthes Cassette boy - youtuber - chops together politicians and news segments. Definitions The Canon - cultural products generally accepted as ‘superior’ or more significant than other examples in the same field.  DWEMs - Dead White European Males - unfairly dominate the “high” arts - “male, pale and stale” Sweding - recreation of feature films on a low budget - obsurdety Authors and critics give fixed meanings and ideas Audience tells culture what it means by imprinting and do-creating the work. “The Birth of the Reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author” Opens popular participation and democratic determinations of cultural value.  Consumers recombine new materials created by author CGI reproductions of celebrities - death of Author of self. Clauses in Wills about not being able to use likenes...

Exploitation films have been around since the beginning of film itself. Originally these films would have been presented in Circus tents, and would pick up on morality tales to get audiences out and make them feel better about their lives. The banning of film companies owning cinemas really marked the turn around for exploitation films. Exploitation met A list films to create entirely new genres and opportunities. Mad Max (1979) for many was a highly influential and game changing film. In keeping with it’s B movie roots, the film was directed by George Miller. He was not a qualified, or highly experienced filmmaker, but rather a medical doctor and a short-film experimenter. He made the film using highly experimental and groundbreaking methods. The film also arrived in the middle of a massive period of change for Australian filmmaking. R rated films had only been introduced to the country in 1970, so many of the national filmmakers were beginning to explore what this meant for film...

The animation we are currently working on in class is using a Charlie Chaplin section as reference. So far we have only put the extremes in, however I feel that this is already starting to look as it should, just lacking easing and some of the finer movements.