Post Modernism

 

Timelines:

• Pre modernism: Everything and anything you've ever known comes from god.

• Modernism: Everything and anything you've ever known does not only come from god but can also be explained by humans and science.

• Post modernism: Completely negates the previous 2 theories and says that nothing is true or false or ever completed and that it depends on the person that views something.

Key words:

• Objective natural reality
• Absolute reality

Post modernism theory:

An intellectual position or mode of discourse known as postmodernism is characterized by skepticism toward the "grand narratives" connected to modernism, opposition to ideas of epistemic certainty or the stability of meaning, and emphasis on the function of ideology in upholding socio-political power structures.

Key words:

• Parody: Referencing a film to make fun of it
• Homage: Referencing a film to honor it 
• Pastiche: Referencing a spesific scene from another film for entertainment or to honor
• Satire: Making something look hilarious in order to humble or embarrass it's targets 
• Irony: When something that you least suspected happens
• Fractured narrative: broken narrative [v]
• Intertextuality: Referencing other media products
• Bricolage: Copying the style of a film or media product
• Loss of reality: Surrealism [v]
• Common theme: A common theme in movies

Baudrillard's theory of reality:

 

Jean Baudrillard

According to Baudrillard, human experience is a simulation of reality since symbols and signs have taken the place of all reality and meaning in today's society.

Due to the utter hegemony of the ruling system, there is rarely any room for protest or resistance in Baudrillard's interpretation of postmodernity: "Everywhere, constantly, the system is too strong: hegemonic."

Key word:

• Heighten reality: Paying close attention to every detail heightens realism. One can see every flaw, including scars, skin pores, wrinkles, and discolorations, in a photograph. These might appear realistic in a typical portrait, but with 50% less detail, they might even be airbrushed out.

• Hyper reality: The idea of hyperreality was first put out by Jean Baudrillard and describes how awareness cannot tell the difference between reality and a simulation of reality. In societies with modern technology, this is increasingly noticeable.

• Simulation: It is no longer a matter of imitation, replication, or even parody when it comes to postmodern simulation and simulacra, according to Baudrillard. It is a matter of substituting the real for the real by using its indicators.

• Simulacra/Simulacrum: Nothing exists, doesn't exist or never existed at all

• Technological convergence: Converting technology to the real world

• Documentary: A documentary or documentary film is a non-fiction film intended to "record reality, primarily for education, educational purposes, or to preserve the historical record.

• Mockumentary: A mockumentary, fake documentary, or Docu-comedy is a type of film or television show that depicts fictional events, but is presented as a documentary. These works are often used to analyze or comment on current events and issues using fictional settings, or to parody the documentary format itself.
  

• Reality TV: Reality television is a genre of ostensibly unscripted television programs that chronicle real-life situations, often featuring unknown individuals and non-professional actors.

• Scripted reality: Scripted reality in television and entertainment is a subgenre of reality television in which some or all of the content is created or pre-coordinated by a production company.

• Augmented reality: Augmented reality is an interactive experience that combines the real world with computer-generated content. Content can span multiple sensory modalities such as visual, auditory, tactile, somatosensory, and olfactory

Case study:

Master Chef Season 11

Master chef is a reality TV show that shows cooking enthusiasts from all over the US compete against one another in weekly competitions to enhance their culinary abilities and claim the title of top chef. This show was created by Gordon Ramsay, Graham Eliot and Joe Bastianich on July 27, 2010 and is still aired until know with a new season that just aired around 25th May. 

This is considered a reality TV show due to the fact that most of the events that happened within master chef is mostly non-scripted, they show the cooks actually cook a dish right in front of the judges with a timer present, they also had interviews with said cooks in between the action happening within the series. The Tv show also featured some slight "tweaks" such as better lighting impossibly high camera angles  (at least for humans to film) and the addition of music and specials effects to make some scenes a bit funnier or more serious.

Minecraft Earth

The augmented reality and location-based sandbox game named Minecraft. Minecraft Earth was created by Mojang Studios and released by Xbox Game Studios. It was initially released on Android and iOS in May 2019 and was a spin-off of the video game Minecraft.

You'll walk about outside in Minecraft Earth and collect building resource blocks by tapping them. It's a nice move by Mojang to refer to objects you win by tapping them as "Tappables." The "Tappables" are now part of your inventory, where you can utilize them later to construct objects.

Case study practice:

Analyze the key characteristics of postmodern media

Jean Baudrillard had developed on the theory of postmodernism in where he said that nothing is original but instead a copy of another copy, he also mentioned how media nowadays don't have any truth to them, along with introducing the concept of reality, heightened reality and hyper reality.

According to Jean Baudrillard media can be separated into two types of reality, heighten reality and hyper reality. heighten reality is where they used real footage but edit the sound or lighting to create a sense of meaning to the audience, an example of this is the recording of the world cup (2022) in where they used live footage of the match but they control the camera to make the audience see what they want us to see. Hyper reality on the other hand, uses scripted footage and scenarios along with scene editing, as nothing there is real but instead scripted, an example of this is Keeping Up With The Kardashians (2009-present) in where we get to see their "daily lives" but it is clearly scripted, as the background sound and lighting are edited along with the scenes, for example no one wakes up from bed with make up. Baudrillard also concluded that people much preferred to watch media in the form of a simulation.