Theorists - Dubord, Baudrillard & Foucault

This moodboard explains a bit about each theorist's idea.

Tron

Tron is similar to Wreck It Ralph because when the character steps out of the game into their reality, it is still hyper real to the audience and a simulated version of them.

Simulated Reality

To What Extent Is Wreck It Ralph Post Modern?

This clip of Wreck It Ralph holds some elements of Post Modernism in it. Firstly, Felix wins a medal in his game as he is the 'good guy', so Ralph decides that he also wants to win one to prove that he can be a good guy too, so he is going against the structure of the bad guys being only bad, and stepping outside of this boundary as he wants to be different. This breaks the structure of a modern text as there has always been a line between the good and bad characters in films.

A traditional value is where he goes back to his game, where the rest of the characters are having a party without him, which is a stereotypical value for the bad guy to be discluded and neglected from everyone else. He feels sad and lonely so wants to be good instead of staying bad which is unconventional.

The Pac Man game where they held their meeting is normal life for them, inside a game, however we see it as a simulated. They walk out of the game and return to ‘reality’ but the audience still this as simulated as they are still game characters, but its real for them when they step outside a game. Intertextual references are included in this clip when all of the bad characters from each game are meeting together inside one game, which is blurring the boundaries of all the different genres of the games together. Also, Ralph takes an 8 bit cherry out of the Pac Man game, and it turns to ‘real life’ once it has been brought out of the game, but this is still animated for us. This also creates a nostalgic feel for the audience as they recognize this as one of the games main features.

Another traditional value is where everyone runs away from him in the ‘Game Central Station’ as he is bad and no body likes him. However even though he is, he breaks and goes against this convention when he gives Q bert (a character from an unplugged game) the cherry he just obtained,so he is breaking the trait of being bad and doing something nice for someone else. This is also taking the cherry feature from the Pac Man game and blurring it with another game which had been unplugged, like it is giving something away.  

Clip 5 - To what extent is WIR Post-Modern?

Wreck It Ralph - Modernity vs Post-modernity

8 Bit Version Of Myself

This is my 8 bit version of myself.

Retro is a style which creates nostalgia via images that simulate feelings of remembrance and warmth about a product from a different decade/ time period.

Wreck It Ralph Intertextual Reference Moodboard

This moodboard shows all of the different elements of old retro games have been included in the film 'Wreck It Ralph'.

Wreck It Ralph Intertextual Moodboard

Lady Gaga Telephone Moodboard

- The titles show up on the screen like it's a movie, so this is an intertextual reference to films. They appear at the beginning and the end.

- Voyeurism is also used throughout as there is a CCTV camera shown in the prison so it's as if you are looking through 2 different screens. This is the same for the laptop screen and the TV screen, its also intertextual as the internet has been used for a dating site, and the TV is showing a news channel.

- There is a mobile phone shown, relating to the song title telephone and a phone company, Virgin is shown on the screen, another intertexual reference to phones and networks.

- Also it's as if Lady Gaga is on a TV cooking programme as the is making a sandwich and the recipe is up on the screen and there is a logo 'Poison TV' which is hyper real as its like 1 media form inside a another one etc.

- All the body guards are women and the prisoners are mainly women suggesting its quite feminist based and female based. Also they are all in little clothing suggesting the male gaze has been applied.

- At one point Gaga is dressed up as a leopard, which is hyper real as she is only in a costume however you relate her to the characteristics of one as she is acting like one.

Nicki Minaj Dress Up

 

Pink and yellow are bright, stand out and child friendly colours - references back to Minaj's Barbie persona. Helps make her seem fun and bubbly and encourages younger target audience to take notice of her.

White sparkly top makes her appear glamorous and posh and important, portraying the image that she has some importance within the music industry.  White could represent the image of purity and innocence like Barbie, contrary to the style and image portrayed to the public via her music and video and photoshoot campaigns which are much more revealing and controversial.

Sunglasses present an idea of mystery and unknown - reflects the idea of many different personas. Which character is behind the sunglasses today?!

 Crazy hair style and hyperbole costume style portrays the idea of hyper reality and other worldly. Is she from this planet? Who really is she? Good USP. 

Lady Gaga - Paparazzi

Intertextual References: 

• Vertigo and Alfred Hitchcock's use of 'Icy Blondes' in his films PASTICHE
• Sunset Boulevard (similar storyline) PASTICHE
• Minnie Mouse HYPER-REAL/ BRICOLAGE - Fake character, reworked into one of Gaga's style for a new audience, also NOSTALGIA
• Visual and narrative references to Chicago PASTICHE
• Entire video is a BRICOLAGE