Semiology

Lang-Moving Image

Media Language

Ides Relevant to Coursework

Quotations in which i agree with:


"The making of the new and the re arranging of the old" (Bentley 1997)

I completely agree with this theory as in our media coursework we did both, re arrange the old aspects and examples that we looked at and then evolved them to create our own idea.

"There is no absolute judgement [on creativity] All judgements are comparisons of one thing with another." (Donald Larning)

I agree with this quote by Donald Larning, who is to judge whether somebody else's work is creative or not? It is down to their though process and the effort and mind set they put into it. However copies of other work i would consider not to be creative and then therefore we are able to see that the creator/ person has not gathered that idea themselves. We as a class did this with our own pieces of coursework.


Quotations in which i disagree with:


"Technology has taken all the creativity out of media production"

Disagree, there are elements to media products still that people have created and are new. Unfortunately these elements are still then put forward and re-created by others who are inspired, as a task in the lead up to our media coursework pieces, we did infact look and take inspiration from other media texts and incorprit into our own work.
"Creativity results from the interaction of a system composed of threeelements: a culture that contains symbolic rules, a person who brings noveltyinto the symbolic domain, and a field of experts who recognise and validatethe innovation." (Csikszentmihalyi 1996)

I disagree with this statement as you don't have to be an expert to be creative, and there is most certainly not three elements that you HAVE to follow to compose the system of 'creativty', surely creativity is in fact something spontaneous and not focused on too much. I did not follow a particular pattern when making my coursework, i did however change aspects and mixed the conventions around to make a creative piece of media coursework.

Theories and Ideas

 "A process needed for problem solving...not a special gift enjoyed by a few buta common ability possessed by most people" (Jones 1993)

In some respects i agree with this quotation as creativity is not a gift but more like a talent or mind set that you may or may not have. However most people do have it as each individual may be creative in respects to different things or talents.


"A project that is too well planned lacks opportunities for spontaneity and creativity."

I partly agree with this theory, although our coursework was researched, we didn't necessary plan the idea but more to the point refine it through a drafts.

"Media producers can learn nothing from studying the conventions of old texts"

I disagree with this statement as we can only introduce new elements with old elements to gather creativity and also, old elements of media will be reflective of the media in dependant on the subject.

The creation of bringing something new into existence-"This particular understanding of creativity involves the physical making of something, leading to some form of communication, expression or revelation." (David Gauntlett)

 I agree with this quote as although you think something through when coming up with a piece of creativity, you also in one way or another physically make it, expressing it through communication to relevance.

"If creativity is not inherent in human mental powers and is, in fact, social and  situational, then technological developments may well be linked to advances in the creativity of individual users" (Banaji, Burn and Buckingham, 2006).

Disagree, creativity is nor inherited or developed from technologies else there would be no new ideas in relation to the technologies. You also shouldn't need to depend on your parents to weather they are creative, if anything they would encourage you more and inspire if creative themselves.

Micro Elements

What choices did you make in terms of the following in order to communicate your meaning to audience (mode of address and persuasion)?

 

Media Language:

Mise-En-Scene
AS Coursework

A2 Courdsework

Camerawork
AS Coursework

A2 Courdsework

Editing
AS Coursework

A2 Courdsework
Sound
AS Coursework

A2 Courdsework

AS And A2 Coursework Examples

Draft A2

Final A2

Draft AS

Final AS