The Network Image

A network image is an image taken the speed across all forms of media, usually twitter, facebook and instagram. usually focusing on everyday situations and making them funny or readable to consumers. 

on average people spend 20+ minutes on facebook everyday, this may not seem lots but thats 121.6 hours/ 5 whole days a year. nothing can happen on social media without people finding out in 24hrs, nothing is a secret on social media in the 21st century. Vines and “memes” are very popular on social, they create a lot of attentions and views/likes.

Interactive Documentary

An interactive documentary is a document production that is different to the traditional forms of audio, video and photographic, it uses different multimedia tools. It creates a non-linear production the combines media tools, text, audio, video, animation, photography and graphics, making it different to any other documentary.

Over the generations the documentary genre has evolved, in the 21st century documentary are heavy pace and very realistic, its not just a series of images its live footage and interviews.

Technology has advanced to new ways, creating interactive documentaries, such as the Samsung Gear VR Oculus. The gadget allows the audiences to view the documentary as if they were there.

Gazing at Identity

In this lecture the discussion was on Psychoanalysis and the sexual gaze adverts attract. freud theory was also introduced into it, on how visual imagery can influence the consumers view, which connects the Laura Mulvey’s theory ‘The Male Gaze’, how men look at women? how women look at themselves? an d how women look at other women?. The gaze is all about women being processed and shown as objects in adverts. most adverts have the women looking at the male or the male only looking at the females body not face. 

 American appeal ran a campaign going on the gaze but which created an uproar by the public, they disagreed with the excessive nudity and thought it was unnecessary. it was referred to as pornographic. looking at the adverts myself i do agree the adverts have been made on a sexual intention. For example their “now open” advert with the model with her legs postponed open portrays that the copy is referring to her being open which is a sexual intention.

Henry Moore Institute - The Body Extended: Sculpture and Prosthetics

The exhibition explores how sculpture and medical science have expanded a grown over the years, originally starting in the first world war helping injured victims look and feel more like themselves. 

During the First World War prosthetics technology rapidly advanced. As shattered soldiers became a familiar sight in public life after 1914, both artists and surgeons alike sought to remake what had been lost. Sculptors Anna Coleman Ladd and Francis Derwent Wood worked directly with surgeons, creating facial masks for soldiers injured in the trenches.

The exhibition shows many examples of their work, their was a series of images that showed the process of them creating a half mask replacing soldiers eye socket, the would get photos of the solider to make the mask look as reality as possible.

Folk and Outsider Art

Outsider are is art that is created out of the boundaries of official cultures, usually self taught, mostly created by people with mental illnesses. Outside art is the equivalent for the french term “art brut”, meaning “raw” or “uncooked” art, used to describe art made by the mental patients. 

Van Gogh was an outsider of the arts at the start of his career, him himself had many metal illnesses.

examples of outsider artists and their work;

• Adolf Wolfli, was one of the first artiest to be assisted with outside art, he was the most influential outsider artist. His artworks were created at a mental asylum near Bern in Switzerland, where he spent rest of his life. He was sexually and physically abused as a child, his father also was a criminal and alcoholic that could of contributed to the reason he developed a mental illness. He worked on a pencil till it got to 5mm, he also had a fear of entry  spaces, which is portrayed in his work as he had no space that wasn't filled.   

• Lee Godie, photographer. She was homeless of 30 years, but choose to be homeless. lee did self portraits, she took the photos in a train station booth,. every “shoot” lee was a different character and would add something to every image with a pen. 

Mythologies - Roland Barthes

Mythologies is written in two sections. The first consists of a series of essays on myths and the use of the mythic language associated with a diverse range of images in popular culture. 

According to Barthes, myth is a form of signification. However myth is different from ordinary speech and language. Barthes follows de-Saussure's discussion regarding the nature of the linguistic signand he characterises myth a second class of signification. 

The second section of Roland Barthes' "Mythologies", titled "Myth Today", is a theoretical discussion of Barthes' program for myth analysis which is demonstrated in the first section of Mythologies. What Barthes terms as "myth" is in fact the manner in which a culture signifies and grants meaning to the world around it. According to Barthes, anything can be a myth, and he follows this approach throughout the examples in Mythologies.

Barthes' concept of myth seems similar or at least draws on the concept of ideology as formulated by Marx in The German Ideology. Ideology according to Barthes' version in "Myth Today" is not entirely concealed and is subject for scrutiny through its cultural manifestations. These manifestations, mythologies according to Barthes, present themselves as being "natural" and are therefore transparent. What Barthes is after in his analysis of mythologies is to reveal the ideological nature of culture's underling myth.

'Semiology has taught us that much has the task of giving an historical intentional a natural justification, and making contingency appear eternal.'

Visual Methodologies

Visual research methods are growing more popular as people find them more helpful and easier to construct their texts or media. In this book, Gillian Rose shows that everyone sees the world through their own eyes and we interoperate by our life experiences. When looking at an image or text we think what does it mean to us? or what is it trying to show visually. 

Colour 
Colour is crucial part of an image structure
1. Hue - it is the reference to the actual colours in a painting.
2. Saturation - it refers to the purity of the colour.
3. Value - it refer to the lightness or darkness of a colour.

Light:
'The light you can see in an image is clearly related to both its colours and its detentions. What types of lights reflect in a painting: candlelight, daylight, electric light - these will clearly affect the structure and appearance of the image.

Expressive Content:
'That is the 'evocation' in writing of the 'feel' of an image. To describe an image's expressive content as 'the combined effect of subject matter and visual form.'

Mise-en-scene: 
'What the shot involves, looking at what frame is used, placement of actors/models and that how it is shot concerns the structure of the shots themselves.'

Montage:
'Montage refers to how the shots of a film are put together; that is, how they are presented.

Sound:
'Sound is crucial to most moving images, especially films, music videos, adverts and tv. There are three types of sound: environmental, speech and music. Environmental are sound effects, whether 'real' or artificial. The music soundtrack of a movie is also fundamental to its effect. The source of the sound can be in or out of the frame.'

Content Analysis:
is a technique for systematically describing written, spoken or visual communication. It provides a quantitative (numerical) description. Many content analyses involve media - print (newspapers, magazines), television, video, movies, the Internet.

Semiology:
'Semiology offers a very full box of analytical tools for taking an image apart and taking how it works in relation to the broader systems of meaning. Semiology draws upon the work of several major social theorists.