Video Begins with image of people in lit movie theater -
lights dim with following quote
"in the end light is always the key protaganist - light itself is glamorous" Vincent Peters http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK-e9zzWw-0
show screen with image of Jean Harlow
-Voice over -
"Cult of celebrity created an atmosphere of illusion breeding a cult of cultural consumers - the audiences saw themselves as a part of a homogonous culture
para-social relationship with celebs helped cure the feelings of alienation of industrial life
Play clip - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zQe-lVm7L4 Harlow saying in the future machinery take over everything
Transition to living room - On TV set same old images
Andy Warhol-15 minutes of fame comes on the TV
Fame became about getting your time - We were all alone but we all had a chance
show image of sleeping person with old screen stars displayed on them (Technolust if I can get permission)
Voice over "The Mood Is Changing"--back to living room change lighting-ambient lighting
Show crowds of people texting - using computers - iphone etc.
twitter interrupt sleep clip ---http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zljqn5eOUc
Image of person creating an image of self comparing to old movie star
Voice Over -We become producers of our selves - of ourselves as celebritys images
Use clips from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AxLyS4fj0E
"ego is attachment to things around 5.30 "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VDjXix6ONk
Lilly Allen on Celeb Culture - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLKhnKPgGRI
sped up video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uls7Rnq-puc
Our images desire a home
"invisible man clip asking for a room"
Clip of Hive----http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HplsGiSmnJI
Voice Over-
Our images of ourselves find home in glass houses - online we are exposed
"what gives a glass house a sense of place..."http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A18pzPVp29A
Read Chaucer House of fame poem excerpt
clip play image of dragonfly in jar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMnbu98AmqI
"its all been created as a sense of illusion" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A18pzPVp29A
"Cixous - on - why talk about cities - everything needs a stage, city is a theatre first 30 sec"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDbHLMKkps4
City of Ambience plays in background
As the city changes - their is translation "continue cixous quote translation resignifies the signifier"
Lonely Girl 15 response
FAme- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTJHjuhCYos -
Anonymous appears telling us that we have a faulty foundation
"faulty foundation of the ego mock him demand his qualifications"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VDjXix6ONk
Bowie - - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpOlaLTXP4E
Can we create something new?
Ambient Intimacy
----talking about this---image of networks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PU--GqGPFk - voice "ambient intimacy - twitter greater ability to stay in touch network - cultivate loose ties form new relationships draw anaology to the village"
Currently working but will post now so can get feedback etc.
Video Clips To Used for Ideas/Video-
Quote "the light itself..." at 1 min at 1.50 protaganist is light
"isnt it enough entertaining people - i'm miserable - those people are my friends"
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/alison_jackson_looks_at_celebrity.html
Showing posts with label illusion. Show all posts
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Sunday, April 5, 2009
3 paragraphs
3 paragraphs for group paper 1st draft
American society is a society of immigrants, a group of people displaced from their home. This led to a mass experience of feeling lonely and displaced. Hollywood films served as the form of entertainment which created a 'cult of celebrity'. Film actors performed to an audience of the masses. Their personality was a home with only windows that looked out on the world with no door by which audiences could enter. A 'parasocial' relationship between audience and celebrity was formed through the illusion of face-to-face communication (Horton & Wohl 1956). As Walter Benjamin wrote in 1936 accompanying the cult of celebrity was the cult of audience in which individuals began to see themselves as a collective group of media consumers. Fans related with Hollywood celebrities through attempting to unveil the celeb, consuming information about their private lives and writing fan letters. (MEGAN)
"The celebrity is a person who is well known for his well-knownness" wrote Daniel Boorstin in 1962. Enter the internet age and we find a shift from media consumers to media producers, the viewer changes to user, and a shifting in mediation of self occurs. Micro-celebrity arises in the YouTube era of user-created content and viral videos. Andy Warhol stated that everyone will have 15 minutes of fame. The internet displaces celebrity from the notion of time to networks, “fame is no longer about getting 15 minutes, its about becoming famous to 15 people” (Hammock 2008). (MEGAN)
The 'illusion of intimacy' formed through parasocietal relationships between audience and actor changes to 'ambient intimacy' in the age of Web 2.0. The mood shifts and now the user creates themselves as celebrities. Through creating personas on facebook, twitter, avatars in second life individuals create images of themselves experiencing themselves as celebrities. This leads to a sense of ambience, a feeling associated with the particularity of a place. A feeling of being at home in the unfamiliar world of instant communication. This happens through following others, one gains a sense of ambient awareness as Thompson (2008) writes creates a feeling of being physically near someone, picking up on their moods through a sense of presence. (MEGAN)
Benjamin, Walter. (2008). The Work of Art in the age of its technological reproductibility and other writings on media.
. Jennings, M. and dohertty, B. and Levin, T. (Eds. Jephcott, Lingstone, Eiland (trans). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Boorstin, D. (1962). The Image, or What Happened to the American Dream. New York: Atheneum.
Donald Horton and Richard Wohl, 'Mass Communication and Parasocial Interaction: Observations on Intimacy at a Distance', Psychiatry 19: 215-29, 1956
American society is a society of immigrants, a group of people displaced from their home. This led to a mass experience of feeling lonely and displaced. Hollywood films served as the form of entertainment which created a 'cult of celebrity'. Film actors performed to an audience of the masses. Their personality was a home with only windows that looked out on the world with no door by which audiences could enter. A 'parasocial' relationship between audience and celebrity was formed through the illusion of face-to-face communication (Horton & Wohl 1956). As Walter Benjamin wrote in 1936 accompanying the cult of celebrity was the cult of audience in which individuals began to see themselves as a collective group of media consumers. Fans related with Hollywood celebrities through attempting to unveil the celeb, consuming information about their private lives and writing fan letters. (MEGAN)
"The celebrity is a person who is well known for his well-knownness" wrote Daniel Boorstin in 1962. Enter the internet age and we find a shift from media consumers to media producers, the viewer changes to user, and a shifting in mediation of self occurs. Micro-celebrity arises in the YouTube era of user-created content and viral videos. Andy Warhol stated that everyone will have 15 minutes of fame. The internet displaces celebrity from the notion of time to networks, “fame is no longer about getting 15 minutes, its about becoming famous to 15 people” (Hammock 2008). (MEGAN)
The 'illusion of intimacy' formed through parasocietal relationships between audience and actor changes to 'ambient intimacy' in the age of Web 2.0. The mood shifts and now the user creates themselves as celebrities. Through creating personas on facebook, twitter, avatars in second life individuals create images of themselves experiencing themselves as celebrities. This leads to a sense of ambience, a feeling associated with the particularity of a place. A feeling of being at home in the unfamiliar world of instant communication. This happens through following others, one gains a sense of ambient awareness as Thompson (2008) writes creates a feeling of being physically near someone, picking up on their moods through a sense of presence. (MEGAN)
Benjamin, Walter. (2008). The Work of Art in the age of its technological reproductibility and other writings on media.
. Jennings, M. and dohertty, B. and Levin, T. (Eds. Jephcott, Lingstone, Eiland (trans). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Boorstin, D. (1962). The Image, or What Happened to the American Dream. New York: Atheneum.
Donald Horton and Richard Wohl, 'Mass Communication and Parasocial Interaction: Observations on Intimacy at a Distance', Psychiatry 19: 215-29, 1956
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