King Edward VI College Student wins 2 Awards @ WJEC Moving Image Awards 2015

Film, Media and Photography student Matt Sedgley was the major winner at the WJEC Moving Image Awards 2015 at  BFI’s London Southbank event on Friday 11th December.

Matt won 2 Awards at the event: (There were 734 entries)

Best Music Video 2015

Overall Winner 2015

"The standard of work submitted was once again exceptionally high, making it extremely difficult for the judges to shortlist. I have been overwhelmed by the volume and quality of entries this year.” Jeremy Points, Head of Creative Media Arts

You can watch Matt’s award winning video below:

Pictures from the event can be seen below:

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Lizzie Pickering, ex Ch4 producer and now film producing, passed on Matt's video to Philip Selway from Radiohead (whom Matt had cited as band who had inspired him) and got the following congratulations!

  

Hi Matt

Congratulations on your award - really well deserved. You capture the energy and personality of the band brilliantly. Radiohead once did a video in a disused swimming pool for a song called Anyone Can Play Guitar - yours is better!

All the best

Philip

FM4: Postmodern Theory - Useful Notes/Site

This extract on Postmodernism and Consumer Society provides some useful quotes that may be applied to many of the topics for A2 Film and Media this year. 'Fight Club' (FM4) is the most obvious text but these concepts can be applied to other examples of Film/Television/Music throughout the year. Getting to grips with this type of theory and applying it to those examples will set your answers apart from other students who rely upon more descriptive responses.

Working with Frederic Jameson's categories (Postmodernism and Consumer Society)

(1) "the transformation of reality into images" (cf. Debord and Baudrillard)

(2) "the fragmentation of time into a series of perpetual presents"

"the erosion of the older distinction between high culture and so-called mass or popular culture" (Jameson).

Pastiche and parody of multiple styles: old forms of "content" become mere "styles"

stylistic masks, image styles, without present content: the meaning is in the mimicry

"in a world in which stylistic innovation is no longer possible, all that is left is to imitate dead styles, to speak through the masks and with the voices of the styles in the imaginary museum" (Jameson).

No individualism or individual style, voice, expressive identity. All signifiers circulate and recirculate prior and existing images and styles.

The postmodern in advertising: attempts to provide illusions of individualism (ads for jeans, cars, etc.) through images that define possible subject positions or create desired positions (being the one who's cool, hip, sexy, desirable, sophisticated...).

"our advertising...is fed by postmodernism in all the arts and is inconceivable without it" (Jameson)

For more useful notes on postmodern theory visit here.

FM4/MS4: Postmodern Theory - 'Fight Club'/'The Matrix'

Postmodern Ideas

1. We no longer have any sense of the difference between real things and images of them, or real experiences and simulations of them.

2. The distinction between media and reality has collapsed, and we now live in a ‘reality’ defined by images and representations – a state of simulacrum.

3. Postmodernism rejects the idea that any media product or text is of any greater value than another. All judgments of value are merely taste.

4. Culture ‘eats itself’ and there is no longer anything new to produce or distribute.

5. All ideas of ‘the truth’ are just competing claims – or discourses – and what we believe to be the truth at any point is merely the ‘winning’ discourse.

6. Postmodern texts are said to be intertextual and self-referential – they break the rules of realism to explore the nature of their own status as constructed texts.

7. In the postmodern world, media texts make visible and challenge ideas of truth and reality, removing the illusion that stories, texts or images can ever accurately or neutrally reproduce reality or truth