Postmodernism.

By understanding and researching various Umv's and Memes, it lead us onto discussing postmodernism and its effects. Postmodernism is a difficult concept to define, mainly because it is intended as a rejection of conventional reality, and tends to be defined in terms of what it is not. By giving it a definition, the concept is conforming to conventions which means the whole meaning is contradicted! Instead we came up with some postmodernism ideas to help us with our own video..

• Postmodern media is between us and reality, and the stages in between are usually mediated. We can sometimes forget what is media and what is reality. For example..Fair ground simulations and 2nd life; the virtual game that pays resulting in a change in the individuals real life. http://secondlife.com/
• Modernsim= Questioning reality, drama, art etc. Postmodernism= Representation and reality mixed together.
• Postmodernism constantly reminds you that it isn't realist and is over constructed. Not like coming out of the cinema..Postmodernism stops the merge of media and reality.
• No Escapism feeling. e.g. Run Lola Run with three alternative endings.

" Postmodernism has always been there, others think it is a new way of thinking"- Strinati 1995

• Postmodernism rejects rules that one media product or text is greater than another e.g. Jaqueline Wilson V Shakespeare.
• Postmodernists stand by the idea that anything can be art and "Culture eats itself" as there is no longer anything new to produce or distribute.
• We live in a reality that is defined by images and representations; SIMULACRUM.

By understanding post-modernism we could discuss whether we were blurring reality in our own video and in a sense we would be. Our idea was Tony Blair being represented as the villian (Todorov) and the children were being the victims in an overexaggerated way, however in reality know "children" were sent to war by Tony Blair, only young men, and even then it wasn't Tony Blair alone who sent them, it was a whole government, and in some cases, the soldiers probably were willing to go into war.