This lecture focused on our up coming essay work and the topics we may want to consider as an option to write about, looked at few authors and books that are regarded as go material for writing and studying an essay. Highlighted the requirements of writing our essays from the amount of words at 3000 to making sure that the Harvard referencing we do is in the correct order and turning our in for check up on progress with essay work.
I have already considered all what we talked about and have chosen by question and the books that will be looked at, my main focus for my question my main focus is Orientalism and Stereotyping in animation and the link between this subject in real life and animated on screen. I have a rough idea of Harvard referencing and the order its arranged in, I will look into this more as I work on my essay and progress deeper into my idea.
Friday 30 October 2015
Sunday 25 October 2015
Establishing a research question
In this seminar we talked about formulating a question for our up and coming 3000 word essay this could be anything and must be able to link or compare to animation.
Form my question I have chosen the subject of stereotyping people in relation to real life, my following question is :
Why are stereotypes featured in animations and how are they perceived ?
I chose this subject because I strongly feel over the years that stereotyping has played a big part in TV and broadcasting, I would like to highlight the facts and my understanding of stereotypes and how people are generally perceived through animation as a media and the links draw through previous history, where it has steamed from and why, what are peoples perceptions of this issue.
I will be using the following books and article sources:
Articles:
- Berger, J. (1972) 'Ways of Seeing', Harmondsworth: Penguin.
- Marx, K. (1970 [1846]) 'The German Ideology', London: Lawrence and Wishart.
- Rancière, J. (1991) 'The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation', Stanford: Stanford UP
Books:
- Peter, R. (1996) Racism and the end for Anthropology African Images:Oxford: Berg
- Mark, C. (2002) Black identity in the 20th century:London: Hansib publications limited (1978, [1985]-[2003])
- Edward,W. (1978, [1985]-[2003]) Orientalism:London:penguin: Penguin Group
- Gen, D. (2000) Black visual culture:London: I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd
- James, D. and Ali, R. (1992, [2003]-[2005]) Race, Culture & Different:London: The open university
Form my question I have chosen the subject of stereotyping people in relation to real life, my following question is :
Why are stereotypes featured in animations and how are they perceived ?
I chose this subject because I strongly feel over the years that stereotyping has played a big part in TV and broadcasting, I would like to highlight the facts and my understanding of stereotypes and how people are generally perceived through animation as a media and the links draw through previous history, where it has steamed from and why, what are peoples perceptions of this issue.
I will be using the following books and article sources:
Articles:
- Berger, J. (1972) 'Ways of Seeing', Harmondsworth: Penguin.
- Marx, K. (1970 [1846]) 'The German Ideology', London: Lawrence and Wishart.
- Rancière, J. (1991) 'The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation', Stanford: Stanford UP
Books:
- Peter, R. (1996) Racism and the end for Anthropology African Images:Oxford: Berg
- Mark, C. (2002) Black identity in the 20th century:London: Hansib publications limited (1978, [1985]-[2003])
- Edward,W. (1978, [1985]-[2003]) Orientalism:London:penguin: Penguin Group
- Gen, D. (2000) Black visual culture:London: I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd
- James, D. and Ali, R. (1992, [2003]-[2005]) Race, Culture & Different:London: The open university
Thursday 15 October 2015
The flipped classroom
This talk was about educating and understanding how learning generally has an impact on people especially and the reason for the break down. We talked about how a french scientist called Jacques Ranciere talked about methods of teaching and how a writter called Louis Althussers who stated that people need people like him as a scinetist in society because the society is the only people who the general public can trust. We learn't about how the government in france changed society at the time and why there was a revolution, the students rose up against society because of the same factor to do with to day's in that students are always effect to the point of the changes in our education and we have no control over it. We talked about generally we have gotten to understand society of being broken down in classes and indivuality.
Animation used to be just hand drawn frame by frame traditionally but has now developed into something which requires even more work and has developed newer areas have created as types of animation e.g. 3D, stop motion. More rules begin to take place the more time beings to move on animation is change more and more every day, people have broken down animation into types e.g. Anime, Cartoon there are even general which distinguish animations from one another. ratings and classification are now fully placed on animation, they used to be unrated time going by because they were not as graphic and violent as they are now but that is said to do with time, times are changing and so is animation every day
Styles have developed a lot anime over a period of time has developed different types of anime categorised in genres e.g. shojo-(Romance), shonin-(action) which would be significant to generals western genres scubas; action, comedy,thriller etc.
Animation has to be classed because people would be lost with out Genres there is no form of identification of what type of animated film be would watch or even the idea of what it might be be like. The categories allow the artist to experiment with styles and give them a variety of ideas to work with and make the animation much more exciting because there is a range to choose from.
Animation used to be just hand drawn frame by frame traditionally but has now developed into something which requires even more work and has developed newer areas have created as types of animation e.g. 3D, stop motion. More rules begin to take place the more time beings to move on animation is change more and more every day, people have broken down animation into types e.g. Anime, Cartoon there are even general which distinguish animations from one another. ratings and classification are now fully placed on animation, they used to be unrated time going by because they were not as graphic and violent as they are now but that is said to do with time, times are changing and so is animation every day
Styles have developed a lot anime over a period of time has developed different types of anime categorised in genres e.g. shojo-(Romance), shonin-(action) which would be significant to generals western genres scubas; action, comedy,thriller etc.
Animation has to be classed because people would be lost with out Genres there is no form of identification of what type of animated film be would watch or even the idea of what it might be be like. The categories allow the artist to experiment with styles and give them a variety of ideas to work with and make the animation much more exciting because there is a range to choose from.
Friday 9 October 2015
Seminar One - Animation and Authorship
The subject of todays seminar was authorship, have been working on developing an understanding of how it authorsip relates to animation. Five words intrudced during this seminar were; Formal, Deconstructive, Abstract, Re-narration, Paradigmatic, Primal, this session was about find ways of linking these words to authership and animation. After examining a Daffy Duck cartoon called "Duck Amuck" there was a talk about what makes the animation link to authorship and what features of being an author feed into this animation and the thought of it.
The general understanding of this topic is that (Barthes) agures for general readers and against the authors over the the understanding of written text by certain authors, Barthes highlights how Authors write based on their own interpritation or understanding, not considering the reader leaving them to question aspects of the Authors written work "who is speaking thus? is it the hero of the story bent on remaining ignorant" (Barthes, 1986). Barthes talks about the importance of understanding writting but how the writter does not allow the reader to do so, this relates to animation in some aspects because the writter and animator sahe the same roles as creators, the only differece between the two types of practicioners is that aniamtors work to communicate through moving imagery where as the writter communicates through text and characterises through description. The previous quote relates also to the animator because they area creators who work to express motion through fully functional characters and use these charatcers as a device for telling stories that the viewer should understand through watching, though the animators can prsent the viewers with non-sensical imagery sometimes which leaves the viewers to work out what they have previously watched instead of making them understand whilst they are watching.
Author is not really a import for the creation, the writting is what relates to the audience of readers, so there is no longer a focus on the writter but the impact the text leaves on the readers. The writter is a modern figure that creates a story to communicate through writting from their own prespective at the time relating to what was happening there and then "The author is a modern figure, it product of our society" (Barthes, 1986) this more or less states that the creation of a writter at the time that it is created can not have any serious affect depending on the secomstances at the time e.g. snow white and the seven dwaves relates to this statement because it involves animators creating a fictional female character that is presented as a female stereotype at the time of its creation in the past but to day would be regareded as a stereotype to general viewing public world wide because it has been notice and highlighted over time, people in the 1960's were not aware of the negatives presented based on women, where as in modern day society these points have been evaluated, studied and identified.
As mention in this previous paragraph the writter on a whole is responsible for the writting but is regarded as invisible by (Barthes) because he belives that Authors should not be th center of attention and people should focus more on the writting its self "For him, for us too, it is language which speaks, not the author" (Barthes, 1986). Animators are also responsible for the work they do but people don't pay any atention to them, the viewers are only interested in the animation and not the person who made it.
The full summary of the whole article along with the previous points is that all writting needs to be understood by the reader but in certain aspects the reader is not regarded or thought when the Author is creating a piece of text, book or article because the writer is creating based on there on vision and has not considered anyone outside of themselves. "There are no painters but most people who engage in painting among other activities" (Marx, K 1970) many people engage in watching an animtion or reading even though they are not animatiors or writers, general people might not be too interesting in reading or animating but still get into a habit of doing so in there spare time. This previous quote by Marx states that anyone can get involved in something easy even though they are not remotely interested or work relitively to the subject personally that they have decided to engage in.
The general understanding of this topic is that (Barthes) agures for general readers and against the authors over the the understanding of written text by certain authors, Barthes highlights how Authors write based on their own interpritation or understanding, not considering the reader leaving them to question aspects of the Authors written work "who is speaking thus? is it the hero of the story bent on remaining ignorant" (Barthes, 1986). Barthes talks about the importance of understanding writting but how the writter does not allow the reader to do so, this relates to animation in some aspects because the writter and animator sahe the same roles as creators, the only differece between the two types of practicioners is that aniamtors work to communicate through moving imagery where as the writter communicates through text and characterises through description. The previous quote relates also to the animator because they area creators who work to express motion through fully functional characters and use these charatcers as a device for telling stories that the viewer should understand through watching, though the animators can prsent the viewers with non-sensical imagery sometimes which leaves the viewers to work out what they have previously watched instead of making them understand whilst they are watching.
Author is not really a import for the creation, the writting is what relates to the audience of readers, so there is no longer a focus on the writter but the impact the text leaves on the readers. The writter is a modern figure that creates a story to communicate through writting from their own prespective at the time relating to what was happening there and then "The author is a modern figure, it product of our society" (Barthes, 1986) this more or less states that the creation of a writter at the time that it is created can not have any serious affect depending on the secomstances at the time e.g. snow white and the seven dwaves relates to this statement because it involves animators creating a fictional female character that is presented as a female stereotype at the time of its creation in the past but to day would be regareded as a stereotype to general viewing public world wide because it has been notice and highlighted over time, people in the 1960's were not aware of the negatives presented based on women, where as in modern day society these points have been evaluated, studied and identified.
As mention in this previous paragraph the writter on a whole is responsible for the writting but is regarded as invisible by (Barthes) because he belives that Authors should not be th center of attention and people should focus more on the writting its self "For him, for us too, it is language which speaks, not the author" (Barthes, 1986). Animators are also responsible for the work they do but people don't pay any atention to them, the viewers are only interested in the animation and not the person who made it.
The full summary of the whole article along with the previous points is that all writting needs to be understood by the reader but in certain aspects the reader is not regarded or thought when the Author is creating a piece of text, book or article because the writer is creating based on there on vision and has not considered anyone outside of themselves. "There are no painters but most people who engage in painting among other activities" (Marx, K 1970) many people engage in watching an animtion or reading even though they are not animatiors or writers, general people might not be too interesting in reading or animating but still get into a habit of doing so in there spare time. This previous quote by Marx states that anyone can get involved in something easy even though they are not remotely interested or work relitively to the subject personally that they have decided to engage in.
Thursday 8 October 2015
Research & Epistemology-part 1
To day we talked about about the importance of Context of practice, the main focus was the aspect of research and why it is very important for me as an art practitioner to focus mainly on research before producing my own finalised project out come. The talk was very in depth about the cycle of researching and the different ways information could be presented, from this lecture I have learnt that research is an informative source that I am able to learn from by failing to gather correct information, this is said to help us as designers to learn the right and wrong way of how to research. It is said that is's better for art practitioners to fail now so that we learn quickly from our mistakes, There are cycles relating to research as a professional skill demonstrating stage by stage on how research must be done . Planning is an important factor that builds research it give me a set layout to work out what relates to my brief and helps me identify what needs to be researched. Research must be relative, if not the source of information could be non useful to chosen specialism, I understood clearly what was talked about and the seriousness of making sure I understood the difference between primary and secondary research. Few examples of methodical ways of researching were mentioned, primary is your own personal provided information based on highlighted subject area chosen and developed by you and secondary research is information collected and represented through analysis as a problem solver.
I feel the point of this lecture was to get me to understand the right way of researching and to explain the usefulness of planning and how it can help young artist like me achieve more knowledge and understanding, research is important and demonstrates awareness of my own practice, helps generate ideas and inspires. Research is useful for finding out factual information to help build your personal knowledge and understanding, I personally think this information has opened my eyes more to researching and has help me understand that it takes more than just taking any source to find information and that I always need to take research step by step if I am to gain knowledge of my chosen profession because rushing to gather information means I am not focused on the right and relative sources for research.
This diagram is showing that research takes a lot of observation, analysis, reflecting and planning before anyone can gather information because research is all about understanding and If you personally don't have any understanding you don't develop any knowledge on you practice or research.
I feel the point of this lecture was to get me to understand the right way of researching and to explain the usefulness of planning and how it can help young artist like me achieve more knowledge and understanding, research is important and demonstrates awareness of my own practice, helps generate ideas and inspires. Research is useful for finding out factual information to help build your personal knowledge and understanding, I personally think this information has opened my eyes more to researching and has help me understand that it takes more than just taking any source to find information and that I always need to take research step by step if I am to gain knowledge of my chosen profession because rushing to gather information means I am not focused on the right and relative sources for research.
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| Diagram of Planning research |
This diagram is showing that research takes a lot of observation, analysis, reflecting and planning before anyone can gather information because research is all about understanding and If you personally don't have any understanding you don't develop any knowledge on you practice or research.
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