MIXTAPE

Title: Life in a Timetable

Primary School
Yellow Submarine – The Beatles (used to make my Dad play it to me on guitar so I could sing along)What Can I Do - The Corrs (Used to listen to them in the car when we drove my Dad to the airport (he worked away all the time, so it was quite often))
Rollercoaster - B*Witched (First tape I bought)
Don’t Stop Movin’ – S Club 7 (First concert I went to)
Superstar – Jamelia (Performed a dance to this at Year 6 Leavers church service)

High School
SOS – Rihanna (Activity week in year 7)
Gold Digger – Kanye West Ft. Jamie Foxx (Private joke)
Thanks For The Memories – Fall Out Boy (Was obsessed with them during  year 8)

Grammar School
The Writer – Ellie Goulding (Reminds me of who I was friends with in year 10)
Hey Soul Sister – Train (Reminds me of a friend)
One Night In October – Little Comets (A2 MEDIA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
One Thing – One Direction (My family (a.k.a Meg & Harry & Uncle Joe))

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Modernism And Postmodernism

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BlaBla

http://blabla.nfb.ca/

This website is most probably the strangest website I have ever come across in my existing life. There is no set storyline to the 'story' at all, although each scene is represented as a chapter.
I have used screencast-o-matic to produce a video of the website's features, the movements simply involve the user clicking on the screen, or moving the mouse around the screen:




There is one character involved in the video, although multiple copies of the character are used and produced throughout the website story.
I can not explain the website in any way, it is completely pointless. The postmodern aspect of the webpage is that it's interactive and pointless, similar to the post-modern game, Desert Bus (which unfortunately I have not yet played due to it not being able to be used on a Mac, and rarely using a PC).

Arcade Fire: lyrics page

This is a screenshot of Arcade Fire's website 'lyrics' page; the page is unique as when the user clicks on a word it becomes an image. Despite this making the lyrics harder to read, the visual aspect is postmodern as it is unlike anything traditional.

The Flight of the Conchords

 The first intertextual references are during 'Sugar lumps' scene in the chosen episode of Flight of the Conchords. The combined references include: Kelis - Milkshake; Black Eyed Peas - My Humps; and the Fresh Prince of Bel Air theme tune. The song Sugar lumps is a parody of all three of these original songs, in terms of postmodernism this is called a pastiche; a pastiche is where a postmodern artist deliberately makes fun of an existing product. The song title 'Sugar lumps' is a typically crude way of substituting rude or inappropriate words with something innocent, this technique was previously used in Kelis' song 'Milkshake'.
 There were two separate references to the film 'Midnight Cowboy' within another scene of the episode; Midnight Cowboy is a very famous scene with a well-known phrase in it, 'I'm walkin' here, I'm walkin'.' This exact line is used in the 'New Cup' episode of Flight of the Conchords when one of the lead characters, Brett, tries to encourage a woman to keep on walking after she turned down Brett's offering of Jermaine as her jigalo for the night. The use of this line shows homage to Midnight Cowboy as Brett uses it in a similar situation to in the film itself; an intertextual reference in the form of homage shows respect to the existing product. The second Midnight Cowboy reference was as Jermaine tells Brett to dress in a cowboy hat and shorts, as this may help him gain more customers as a jigalo; in the film, Midnight Cowboy, the man dressed as a cowboy is in fact a jigalo.
 Another intertextual reference is from the music video for the song, 'Roxanne' by The Police. Brett performs a song towards the end of the episode about prostitution, which is the same topic as Roxanne; there are also red lights behind Brett as he sings in each location, this is also a feature of The Police's video.

Arcade Fire: music videos

http://www.beonlineb.com/

To interact with this website the user must move the mouse around on their computer to make the hands of the singer move around, or his whole head to disappear, bar his eyes. The background of the webpage is plain black and the only visible parts of the singer are his two hands and his head. The entire video is in a low saturated colour balance; this blends with the slow tone of the song.

http://www.sprawl2.com/

To interact on this webpage, you have to either physically move around, or click your mouse on the video. The user has the ability to physically move around because the webpage can be linked up to a webcam/microphone device; the device can either be in-built, or detached from the computer.
The video itself features multiple characters dancing in different locations and clothing; the beat of the dancing always matches the tempo of the song and style of music on each verse/chorus/instrumental. The background of the webpage is the same as the previous webpage, plain black with the focal point directly on the video and characters. This website is different to any other music video as the characters only dance if the user clicks or moves around, if the user just stands still then multiple gif-style images play over and over.

http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/

This website was the strangest one of all. The way the user interacts with the webpage is by entering an address of the place they grew up in; new windows open and show a Google Map Street View and aerial view of the chosen address. New windows close and open by themselves as the runner goes further and further down the street, the runner is also visible on the aerial view as if he is actually there, in the town.
The webpage then asks you to write a letter to the 'old you that used to live there' and the user can type their letter on a separate window; birds then fly across the letter into the next window which is an aerial view of the chosen address. The website itself can become personal if the address entered into the webpage is found by Google; I think the postmodern aspect of this is that you can interact with the music video by adding a personal edge, this is completely different to all other music videos and ignores traditional music video conventions.

Analyse one of your coursework products in relation to genre.

A2 Media Theory - Analyse one of your products with reference to genre