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May 22nd, 2010 by Cornflakegirl

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This is the third post that I write about the new formats used to tell a story. If in the previous two posts, I talked about the blogs that become books and the books that inspired their own soundtrack; now I would like to talk about when music and image merge together to tell a story. If the musical theatre or movies are very old, I mean its shorter version: music videos. In about five minutes or even less, they introduce some characters, a plot and a surprising ending. The structure is similar to microfiction’s. These microfictions are very popular now because they are the best option for Internet. Nevertheless, both cases are not new, they started in their late sixties or early seventies.

I’ve chosen three music videos with very different music, subject and narrative form.

1. A-ha: Take on me
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The story is simple, it’s just a romantic love story with a tragic ending: two young people from two different worlds, met and fell in love. A bad guy tried to avoid their runaway together. Maybe it’s full with cliches but it’s easy, nice and when it was created, it was the best music video together with Thriller by Michael Jackson.

2. Rammstein: Du hast
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Between A-ha’s and Rammstein’s music videos, there had been many different more music videos with better tecniques and special effects. I’ve chosen this one because I like the song (quite different from A-ha’s one) and Rammstein is a band who makes very interesting videos with a story on it. They are quite polemic and transgressor. Du Hast and Engel are influenced by Quentin Tarantino and his movies Reservoir Dogs and From Dusk till dawn.

3. Nine inch nails: Pinion
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Last, this short video (just 1.23 minutes) without lyrics, almost without music shows us a sick nightmare that makes us wonder why is that man (or woman) there? How did s/he get there? Why this punishment? It’s a whole story by itself but it could a beginning or even an end of a longer story.

These three example are just a sample of what was done and is being done at the moment but there will be more and they will be different in all the possible ways. I suppose that one of the most insteresting option will be two or more art forms merged in just new, reloaded futuristic one. Always searching for the moment, the brevity and the impact in just few seconds. Where Internet is becoming vast and huge, the quality should stand up on its way.

 

When could we order art á la carte? Just focused on one consumer?

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Closer by NIN

May 16th, 2010 by Cornflakegirl

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Closer by Nine Inch Nails: A provocative sick song with a video even more disturbing. I can’t take them out of my mind.

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April and Poetry

May 8th, 2010 by Cornflakegirl

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During April, I’ve taken part of two poetry challenge: NaPoWriMo and PAD Challenge. In both cases, we should write poems from the provided prompts. At the beginning, I wasn’t sure if I could end it but I was finding it more interesting every day. Below you can read what I´ve learnt from this experience.

1. Poetry is a dying animal´s cry out.

2. It doesn’t matter how hard we try different forms, different subjects, we have a personal voice and it commands us.

3. The animal always comes backs to its place, it doesn’t matter how hard we try to change it.

4. Everybody has its own imagery although we were following the same prompt.

5. Deadlines are the perfect catalyst for inspiration.

6. The Quality comes out from Quality and Hard Working.

7. Perseverance is a doubled-edge weapon; commitment ties us and hard working tortures us, but it´s worth.

8. Like for narrative, reading is a must for learning to write.

9. If our experiences mark our character, they mark us as poets, as voices.

10. Writing poetry is open the eyes to a world that although it’s been with us for long time, always seems pretty new and surprising.

The challenge has been hard, tiring, difficult but highly rewarding. In November this challenge will start again but I don’t know if I will do it again or take part of NaNoWriMo (to write a novel in 30 days). However, after my exams in June, I’d like to enrol a poetry course or find a mentor. I have so much to learn and this challenge really encourage me to keep on working on my own voice.

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