Various terms of Postmodernism in media:

Pastiche: A form of insulting or making a humourous rip-off of another media text. (Taking the p**s.)
E.g. Hobo with a shot gun is a pastiche of various old 1980's action movies.
E.g. Spaceballs and Robot chicken towards primarily the Star Wars franchise.
E.g. The One direction song about the members being gay.
E.g. Maybe Paul was this to E.T.

Homage: A more serious form of using features from another media text. Sometimes a tribute or show of respect for this text.
E.g. Inglorious basterds to war films, despite none of its features (music or text) being very fitting.
E.g. Arguably, Percy Jackson to Harry Potter.
E.g. Gold Digga to I got a woman to It must be jesus in music. Each song seems to have serious sentiment behind it, while paying tribute to a previous great song of a past generation.

Pathos: Where a media text is effective in achieving what its aim is...
E.g. Inglorious basterds is this, despite its clear mis-use of correct music or text.

Bathos: Where a media text is intentionally bad...
E.g. Hobo with a shotgun. (A copy of a copy of a copy of something that never existed to begin with. Designed to be bad in every way.)

Creativity practice question 2:

media creativity question by JackKerryASMedia

Creativity practice question 1:

Here is my first essay practice based on creativity. Apologies for lack of neat writing. I timed myself and had to write fast. Also, I accidentally scanned the last page twice. Just ignore that.

media creativity question by JackKerryASMedia

Postmodernism: Lesson 3.

What have I learned?

Levi Strauss considers 4 things when you might create something:

-          Addition.

-          Deletion.

-          Subtraction.

-          Transformation.

Also:

Some examples of how music bands stolen from various other media sources. An example of this would be the group Daft Punk from France which stolen from various other media texts, including some classic music videos of other genres, as well as cartoons from the 1970’s which contained a similar standard of art design.

A short written exercise we did was where we considered the main elements of the concept of postmodernism such as the illogical equation of '5 + 5 = 1' and we tried to determine what postmodernism was in short...

Postmodernism: Lesson 2.

This lesson, we focused on how postmodernism was formed, including the rise of postmodernism among people when they became too aware of their ruthless efficiency to kill. The following piece of paper shows notes I taken while learning about the infamous reaction to modernism...

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Postmodernism: Lesson 1.

What we learned:

Intertextuality: Where a media text uses a feature from another media text to create a new layer of meaning.

E.g. Apocalypse Now uses the Vagner song from Birth of a nation to create a hidden meaning of racism.

Bricolage: Where a media text uses a referentiality taken from another media text to create a new meaning.

E.g. British gas advert used Vagner song too but not necessarily for a racist purpose.

10 or 11 creativity quotes:

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

Steve Jobs

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.
Ray Bradbury

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
Abdul Kalam

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Albert Einstein

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
Bill Gates

Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
Edward de Bono

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity. 
T. S. Eliot

President Obama's view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people!
Mitt Romney

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.
Jimmy Buffett

I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.
David Walliams

Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life.
William Shatner

CD Cover: Random production.

Using Pete's blog, an examiner, I was able to produce an album cover using 'random' uses of creativity:



This image is one I used following a creative process involving random selection of features. I used name generators for both the title of the band and the title of the album, I then used a random image generator to selected the used picture. Compare this random selection of features to my actual album cover from my a2 coursework:

Which is better? That is the debate relevant here. One involved lots of planning. The other had none whatsoever. But the difference in quality?