Contexts of Practice - 6th January - BCOP

Wednesday 6th January 2016 

Contexts of Practice                                   Module: BCOP                         Lectures: Lucy Leake

Introduction to monsters

Existing fairytales: Little Red riding hood - looking at the representation of the wolf

Identified the key elements of Little Red Riding Hood - The colour red what does this signify, blood, mortality, love, lust, danger etc. 

The mother and child relationship - Overly protective, makes me think that she hasn't told her daughter enough about the outside world, doesn't know what dangers lurk around in the woods. 

Have a read of Bluebeard, originally written by Charles Perrault (19th Century), it contains three distinctive motifs, a secret chamber, curiosity and keys. 

Find some examples of different ways that fairytales have been interpreted in popular culture.... games? Films Music? Ads? Old stories used again and again in different ways, targeted at different people/demographics. 

Auteur - A film director whose personal influence and artistic control over his or her films, they are so great that they are recognisable to know who the author is when watching films, film by the same author will share common themes or techniques, expressing and individual style or vision. So if you know the types of themes, techniques and styles that certain authors use, if a film uses the same ones then you would immediately be triggered into thinking who the author was going to be.

Look at a fairytale that has been reinterpreted in popular culture.

My chosen example of a fairytale: 

I looked into the fairytale called The water of life, the main plot for it was two sons who go in search of "The Water of Life, advised by a little old man, the two need to find a cure for the king (their fathers) as he is sick. I came up with the idea of using my footage of a river flowing as a way of portraying the journey of not only the "The Water of Life" but also it could be used to show the journey of the kings sons as they go on an adventure to collect "The Water of Life". I added in lots of metaphors as well as I wanted to use words to describe the waters texture and power, clean, fast flowing at places and it meanders and trickles down the valley in a lot of places, all of the video footage shows different parts of rivers/streams within the woodlands.

Myself and Dan then got a small quote to conclude the river by talking about the way rivers move, personifies the truth, this sounded like a great line to use to describe the wisdom behind the river.

Here is a link to the short film that I created to re-interpret a specific fairytale called "The Water of Life" This is the link to the video on my Vimeo channel.

"The Water of Life" Short Film from Luke Curno on Vimeo.