Ideology In Wreck It Ralph

Wreck It Ralph Ideology & Grand Narrative

WIR presents 3 grand narratives, all ideology that is presented by a western and predominately american world. WIR follows modernistic ideology of Freedom, Christianity and Democracy.

Freedom

Characters from various games are allowed to cross over into other games, allowing them total freedom when the game is not being played. They do this via the extension lead that all games are plugged into. Characters can interact and play within other games but they must be careful as they will not re-spawn if they die. This presents freedom within a society and an overall democratic way of life, rules are presented and followed. A game must not cross over to another game when being played as this creates a scenario called 'Turbo', ultimately ending in the game being shut down.

Christianity 

Although boundaries between characters are deconstructed an overall reference and narrative to christianity is very prominent. The narrative is how ralph longs to be a hero and to do this he must sacrifice himself for the one he cares for and the whole arcade. This relates to the idea of Jesus sacrificing himself for a cause and what he believed was right, a western idea of a hero's path. This has been the ideological view of a hero in modern times, though Propps  theories we can show how a hero must always prevail.

Democracy/Anti-Monarchy

The third key 'Grand Narrative' is the idea of democracy and the collapsing of monarchs. American is the land of the free and home to brave and prides itself on its democratical way of life, much like WIR. ALthough in one game 'Sugar Rush' a monarchy is present an overall king/queen rule, they are elected but born or in this case coded into royalty. At the end when Vanellope the princess is transformed into the Queen she choses to resign and for the land of sugar rush to be equal and free, much like other games and of course like America. America are very anti-monarhcy and the narrative of a monarchy being broken down to form a democracy is the perfect ideology for a western world. 

All narratives and structures work to overall morality and ideological views that the American way of life is in fact the dream. The idea of freedom, willing to fight for your freedom and being able to have your say is the dream.

Dave Anqii Website Draft

http://awatt1995.wix.com/daveanqii

Here is the first draft of the website for Dave anqii, follow the link to see the published preview.

Music Video Edit

Here is my first go at a Music edit to 'Never Be Alone', it was a small project that focused around practising shot types and using multi-clipping in final cut.

Press Complaint

Upheld: Adjudication - A woman v The Sun

This is an example of an upheld complaint against theSun, The Sun has published an article on 'The Woman's' Brother whom of which was convicted of a high profile murder and detailed her with her full name. She claimed the sun had breached Clause 9, the Adjudication found that the Sun had broken Clause 9 which states that "relatives or friends of persons convicted or accused of crime should not generally be identified without their consent, unless they are genuinely relevant to the story"

 Not Upheld: Gary & Danielle Lineker v The Sun

This complaint was from Gary & Danielle Lineker against the Sun that they had harassed and breached privacy. The article was all around Gary Lineker leaving Twitter and the paper suspected it was due to other allegations made and wanted to follow it up. They made contact with Gary, his agent and family but it was not upheld as they did not break privacy and only contacted each individual once therefore it was not classed as harassment and was not upheld.

Theorists

Frankfurt School, Hyperdermic Needle:

'The Hypodermic Needle Theory suggests that the media ‘injects’ its messages straight into the audience with suggestions designed to trigger a specific desired response. The theory states the audience is entirely passive and is immediately affected by the media’s messages, as the Media’s hold over the public is so intense that the public is essentially unable to escape from its influence.'

From: http://keyconceptsc1.wordpress.com/2011/11/07/hypodermic-needle-model-tied-to-the-frankfurt-school/

Laura Mulvey:

Mulvey suggests that the audience view the films in two ways: voyeuristically and fetishistically. As audiences watch films without being watched by the characters they become onlookers of their lives. Therefore they become voyeurs of the people on screen. This can lead to two effects: objectification and narcissistic identification. Voyeurism involves turning the represented figure into a fetish so it becomes increasingly beautiful but more objectified.

From: http://mixsoph.blogspot.co.uk/2008/11/gaze-is-feminist-theory-developed-to.html

Andrew Goodwin:

4. Star-In-Text (Goodwin): puts the star as the focus of the video, emphasis the stars persona (Madonna)

5. Music videos demonstrate genre characteristics (rock in rock videos)

6. Relationship between lyrics and video + Relationship between music and visual 

7. Demands of the record label will include the need for lots of closes up of the artists etc..

8. Frequent reference to notion of looking (screens working screens, tvs, magazines etc) voyeuristic treatment of the female body 

9. Often intertextual reference to films, TV etc..

10. They are 'hyper-real', 'reality' and visual experience (jumbled)

Intertextiality

Charlotte Hatherley - Bastardo

We think that 'The Midnight Dogs' would be a good act to perform before Charlotte at a concert, this is because they cover the same genre.

https://myspace.com/themidnightdogs/music/songs

Radiohead - No surprises

Radiohead - No Surprises

Conceptual 

Lyrics and music relate.

All in one shot.
Lights flashing with the music
Lyrics backwards so he read them
Drowning in his sorrows - helplessness, human life is fragile
Reincarnation, going back to the beginning.
Self-Reflective

Breaking or re-enforcing conventions - breaking conventions as it is about suicide, carbon monoxide, lethal in certain does

Concept and music - The concept is being trapped, committing suicide, resembling life. slow pace and aery music.

Image - Depressive and emotional image, designed to attract a mature audience.

“self-reflective” - reflective on his life, reflection on his face, watching his life flash before his eyes. suicidal reflection, looking back on his life.

Notion of looking - Goodwin, we are looking through the glass at him. focusing on the star - Star in text - Hyper real.