Promoting Media Revision

Promoting Media Revision Homework

The organisations that regulate the following media forms:

• Film - British Board of Film Classification

• TV and Radio - Ofcom

• Advertising - Advertising Standards Authority

• Newspapers and Magazines - Video Standards Council

• Video Games - Games Rating Authority and Video Standards Council

What is a postmodernist film? What features does it include?

A postmodernist film a late 20th century style and concept that is characterised by a mixing of different artistic styles and media, and a general distrust of theories.

Postmodernism involves breaking down barriers, for example taking little bits of everything and putting it all together.

Postmodernist films are known to challenge mainstream conventions of narrative structures, while also destroying the audience's disbelief. This creates a film that has conventional elements, but the storyline and narrative are not mainstream.

Features:

• Pastiche - work that imitates that of another work or artist.

• Hyperreality - an image or stimulation that distorts reality, or depicts something that is not real, but then forms a reality.

• Time-bending - using time travel to shape reality

• Irony - when something is meant to be cynically mocked and not taken seriously.

• Intertextuality - linking the work to a different film, text or book.

How is The Lego Movie a postmodernist film?

The first way that The Lego Movie is a postmodernist film is because it has the pastiche and intertextuality features. The Lego Movie is has a very similar plot to 'The Matrix' film, which is an action/adventure sci-fi film with an age rating of 15 by the BBFC. Both of the plots are about a plain, unexpected hero that is then 'destined' to be "The One". He teams up with someone that should have been "The One" but was overlooked due to the protagonist (Emmet) of the story. It ends up that the prophecy was false and it takes the shattering of the hero's reality to realize that they can fulfill the prophecy, and they return to their world to become it. This is pastiche and intertextuality because the work of The Lego Movie's may be imitating The Matrix's as they are very similar.

Another way The Lego Movie is a postmodernist film is that it contains hyperreality elements. The majority of The Lego Movie is made of LEGO in different LEGO worlds. Throughout the film, the audience experiences these worlds, however at the end of the film, the audience is brought back to a human reality that concludes the film. This makes The Lego Movie a postmodernist film because the majority of the film depicts something that is not real (the LEGO worlds), and then forms a reality.