Contexts of Practice BCOP100 - 7th October

Wednesday 7th October 2015

Course Module - BCOP100                     Contexts of practice                  Lecture - Lucy Leake

Practise of Looking

Images on a daily basis, open the realms of popular culture and are produced for a variety of media.

Roland Barths - Images have 2 levels of meaning.

Dennotive - Picture of an apple

Connative - it's a red apple, colour signifies love and danger

Miche Foucault "things we do are learned, regulate our own behaviour, we obey laws

Leprosy - Hidden              Plague (1665) - Watched

CCTV - We are captured in everyday life on many camera's either in shops, on the streets and so we looked into CCTV, however we are never sure that the camera is turned on or whether it is watching us, but it does make people think twice about doing things, regulating your own behaviour.

Surveillance is about looking, have mixed meaning.

(l'accordeur) The Piano Tuner - Oliver Treiner

Unexpected - Really well thought off (the shots towards the start were happy and warm - reflected through the choices of lighting).

Pretty intense - Perfect ending, the way that it ended created both tension/suspence. The scenes when put together gave a representational space, colours were really deep, enhancing the mood, gave the feel that he was central to the film, everything happened around him from his P.O.V. For example the women dancing around him as he was playing the piano, it helped to show imagery, everyone wanted him as they felt like they could do what they wanted without being watched as they thought he was blind.

We talked as a class about our blogs, the aims and objectives for the notes that we make, we were lectured by Lucy, she gave the brief for this WHOLE module and the 4 different types of projects that we have to create which all sounded interesting.

We were advised to create a separate post on our blogs where we should create a list of our references used throughout the module i.e. work being referred too, cinematography, films, books and quotes etc.

Later on that afternoon, I got out of the library the book 'Practises of Looking' - An introduction to visual culture - by Marita Sturken/Lisa Cartwright.

References

The Piano Tuner (2010) Directed by Olivier Treiner [Short Film]. USA: N/A

• Sturken, M, & Cartwright, L. (2009). Practices of looking: An introduction to visual culture. New York: Oxford University Press.