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310MC: Research & Development

310MC: Research & Development. Taylor Boxall. Power, Memory & Spectacle. What are the above? Power: the possession of control or command over others; authority; ascendancy/ a deity; divinity: the heavenly powers/ great or marked ability to do or act; strength; might; force/

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310MC: Research & Development

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  1. 310MC: Research & Development Taylor Boxall

  2. Power, Memory & Spectacle • What are the above? • Power: the possession of control or command over others; authority; ascendancy/ a deity; divinity: the heavenly powers/ great or marked ability to do or act; strength; might; force/ • Memory: the mental capacity or faculty of retaining and reviving facts, events, impressions, etc., or of recalling or recognizing previous experiences./ a mental impression retained; a recollection: one's earliest memories. / Rhetoric. the step in the classical preparation of a speech in which the wording is memorized/ • Spectacle: lavishly produced performance/ thing exhibited/ anything presented to the sight or view, esp. something of a striking or impressive kind/ a public show or display, esp. on a large scale/ Please see www.dictionary.com or the physical version (available in paperback and hardback editions at all good book retailers) for more definitions...

  3. Foucault & The Gang • What did they say? • Foucault: ‘Power would no longer be dealing simply with legal subjects over whom the ultimate dominion was death, but with living beings, and the mastery it would be able to exercise over them would have to be applied at the level of life itself: it was the taking charge of life, more than the threat of death, that gave power its access even to the body’. Foucault, M. (1984) The Foucault Reader , ed. Paul Rainbow, New York, Pantheon and London, Penguin. • Barthes: ‘Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.’ Roland Barthes (1915-1980), French semiologist. inaugural lecture, Jan. 7, 1977, Collège de France; repr. In Barthes: Selected Writings (1982). Lecon (1978).

  4. Power, Memory & Spectacle • How can we know if our creations are powerful/memorable/a spectacle? • Primary research • For something to be any of the above, the success to which any of them are accomplished depends solely on those deeming it so. Opinion is subjective. Amount of People Who Say Humor Is A Key Factor When Remembering A Film/TV Show/Radio Show Number Of People 18-25, 26-35, 36-50, 50+ Age Groups

  5. Radio • Content Vs. Construction (Power) • The Sony Awards (a sound fix - prison radio association for electric radio Brixton) http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:AwAcICPFHkgJ:www.prisonradioassociation.org/library/documents/presspack/PRA-SONY_PRESS_STATEMENT_110509.doc+a+sound+fix+-+prison+radio+association+for+electric+radio+brixton&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=firefox-a • This won the Community Award at the Sony Awards 2009. Sadly there is no sound bite. • The Sony Awards (Words And Music: An American Landscape) http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00hwwrv/Words_and_Music_An_American_Landscape/ • This is just one programme from a series of the above title. The series was winner of the Music Award Programme category at this years Sony Awards (the Oscars of the Radio world). PLAY FROM START

  6. Radio • Serious Vs. Light (Memory) • Chris Evans (Top Tenuous) • http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00mz5nz

  7. Photography • Simplicity Vs. Complexity (Memory) Martin Schoeller From ‘Female Bodybuilders’

  8. Photography • Simplicity Vs. Complexity (Memory) Esther Teichmann Untitled from 'Mythologies', 2009

  9. Photography • Style/Genre Vs. Meaning (Power & Spectacle) (Salgado) Sebastião SalgadoRefugees in the Korem campEthiopia, 1984

  10. Photography • Style/Genre Vs. Meaning (Power & Spectacle) (LaChapelle) David LaChapelleJesus Is My Homeboy2008

  11. Film • Mainstream Vs. Indie (Power) (Critic response) • ‘Schindler’s List’ • ‘Trainspotting’

  12. Film • Intelligence Vs. Emotional Connection (Memory) • ‘Magnolia’ opening sequence • ‘’The Killing Fields’ end sequence

  13. Film • Effect Vs. Budget (Spectacle) • ‘Battlefield Earth: A Saga Of The Year 300’ had a budget of $44m and won 9 ‘worst of’ awards including 3 ‘worst film’ prizes. • ‘Colin’ was produced with a budget of £45 and won the Special Jury Award at the Revenant Film Fest 2008.

  14. Other • Holke79 – This Is Not A Reel

  15. Other • Never Hide Films – 100 People Per Minute Freestyle

  16. The Points (That I’ve Come Away With) • Any media product can be powerful, memorable or a spectacle, it simply depends on who it is deeming it to be so. • A spectacle of a product is likely to be memorable. A memorable piece is logically imbued with power. A powerful piece may very well be a spectacle in itself.

  17. My First Rough Ideas: Radio • Live studio audience for a game show • A show that works from listener count i.e. certain amounts of people have to have tuned in for certain things to happen or for the show to play at all.

  18. My First Rough Ideas: Photography • Experiment with the styles of genres i.e. Reportage shoot with elaborate lighting set-ups or a fashion shoot with a documentarian approach

  19. My First Rough Ideas: Film • Reservoir Dogs • meets • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles • The Shining • Trailer change of direction

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