Concepts

So its got to a stage now when im in dire need of actually needing to put some of my ideas into action, however, as usual i have several other things that need to be completed within the same time scale. It is now, as im sure you are all well aware, getting very close to christmas and thankfully i have no more deadlines untill after new years. This does not mean that i have no work to be getting on with as in the first two weeks of January i have several deadlines including this one. With this in mind plus the fact that the members of Clanvid have gone to there respective families for this festive time means that it is difficult to achieve very much. With these limitations in mind i have decided to dedicate some time to researching political videos and accumulating a series of video clips from which i will hopefully be able to create a montage that i can combine with recordings of myself to create my final piece. The trouble i have found with this is choosing the form my piece will take and deciding on the target of my piece. Currently i am torn between two concepts and ideas, one being a brass eye style of performance in which i will directly attack and make allogations against a politician and/or a political party or a mock interview that uses clip me asking questions mixed in with video clips of politicians in order to create the answers. I will ponder this over the next few days and will report on my progress.

Politics

So by now hopefully you will have had a chance to check out our group blog and you tube channel and will know that i am in charge of creating a politically charged performance. Here are just a few videos i will take inspiration from.

Back to the group project

So back to my earlier post on the group project i will be under taking soon. Earlier in the term we looked at what makes a worthwhile performance and whilst everyone seemed to have an answer not very many of them seemed to agree. When i joined with Clem and Keenan to form Clan Vid this was the main issue of interest that we had covered in class. We came to the conclusion that the relevance of a performance was directly related to how effectively it reaches its target audience. So for example a piece aimed at children will be no good if it can only be accessed via a news site. and a news article for middle aged men wont achieve anything if it is posted on the CITV site.
For this reason we decided to create several pieces all of which are aimed at different audiences, the list of different styles and target audiences can be found on our group blog.

Attention Economy?

This post is slightly jared from my previous post but please stick with it. In today's seminar we looked at an article by Richard Lanham in which he discusses the 'Attention Economy'.

Economics...studies the allocation of scarce resources....we live in an "information economy". But information is not in short supply in the new information economy. We#re drowning in it. What we lack is human attention to make sense of it all. It will be easier to find our place in the new regime if we think of it as an economy of attention. Attention is the economy in short supply.

In this article he discusses that people attention is what the people are bidding for in today's mediated society. He is a member of rhetoric which harks back to the ancient Greeks when politicians used to take techniques from actors so that they could capture the peoples attention in public addresses. He expresses a belief that if modern companies were to follow in this stead and increasingly use performance to bring attention to their product they would be able to secure a chunk of the 'attention economy'. So perhaps theatrical performance has a larger part to play in today's information rich society than it may first appear.

Project update

So... im not quite sure where to start with this post, its been quite a while since i last added anything and a lot has changed in that time. Most relevantly to this blog my group project is now fully underway and gathering pace. The project consist of creating a performance, as part of group, that has relevance to the module content.
I am a member of a group going under the name of Clan Vid, as you can see to the right of the screen you can see links to our blog and our very own You Tube channel. We are using our You Tube channel to track our progress via video diary's, which in themselves will contribute to our project as an aspect of our performance.
With tour performance well and truely in the pipeline it is time for this blog to change its direction, whilst it will still comment on the content of the coarse i am going to use it as a place to show my personnal research and oppinions of our work.
Please do follow the links to explore our plans and let me know your oppinions.
Peace out!