Realism

So realism is pretty straight forwards. It is exactly what it says. Its a close resemblement to what is real. Phoography was the first medium or form of realism in a form of art, rather than paintings which can be very decieving. A man called "andre bazin" said humanity has a "mummy complex" meaning a urge to freeze time and to capture and store reality. This is because photgraphy is proof, its scientific and copies reality.


However with realism comes non-realism where 3d is used and is becoming more and more realistic with character features using probably a photographas a base to edit and transform into creatures.

There are 2 viewson realism, art reflects and art tranforms. There are 2 types of media that relate to realism. The first is immediacy, where it makes you forget about the media you are using, wether its film, photography etc. To want immediacy is to want to be away from realism and forgetting what your looking at isnt really there.

The other type is hypermedicy is the in a way the opposite to immediacy where it uses technology to make you beleive what you are looking at is real. To disguise an object in a way. I found this slightly hard to understand and find it hard to write about.

Sructuralism & binary oppositions.

So last thursday the lecture was on sructuralism, which is pretty much straight forward. Its to see structure, shapes according to what we automaticly think of. It is how we create and interperate. By focusin on the "opposites" we as humans can only define what something is by knowing what isnt. These are known as "binay opposites".

-Jacques derrida is a man who developed the technique of post-structuraism, also known as deconstruction. This is whre binary oppositions come in. examples of binary opposition are:

good- evil
light-dark
sky-land
old-young
male-female.

All these example help show how we question opposition. However we know what is old and young. however some are no so straight forwards and these are called "zone of anomaly."
These are the one that dont fit in the catagory so fluid. This is simply because we see some on a scale in a way and can only notice what it is from how far away from the catagory it is. for example:

human-non human. - there are films where you have vampires and zombies. Are they closer towards human or non human. Its a question where everyone has their own view on. I personally believe it could be closer to human but there is a process to get to human stage. Therefor it stays in "zone of anomaly".