This lesson was split into 2 sections, we firstly exploed postmodernism in relation to both high and low culture. We started off by brain-storming aspects of high culture while finding the opposite in relation to low culture.
Postmodernism is typically a mixture of High and Low culture
Low culture: Pop music, Football, ITV, TV (in general, Tabloids
High culture: Classical music, Opera, Polo, BBC, theatre, Broadsheet, Ballet
We then went on to investigate Texts that referenced both high/low culture that also included modernist/posmodernist traits. The first text we looked at was Dixon of Doc green (BBC 1950's - 1970'). - The first thing we noticed was that the main character 'Dixon' spoke to the camera head on therefor adressing the aduience directly, which in itself is a very modernist trait as it is not tyring to hide the fact that it is not 'reality', much like some aspects of 'fly on the wall' documentaries. We also looked at Tarantino's Pulp fiction. We firstly noticed that the opening is a pastiche of 'the good the bad and the ugly'the begining credits included the same colours, fonts and quick transitions. As we watched on we noticted that there were various refrences to aspects of low culture such as: night clubs, fast food, popular culture and TV game shows.
The second part of the lesson was spent experimenting with podcasting. We used a free recording program called audacity and became familiar with how it worked, as we plan to use podcasting with a presentation as a way to evaluate our projects.
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