Week 5 Stuff

Immediacy

An example I found of immediacy was the movie "Fight Club". You can't really replicate a movie like "Fight Club". I feel that the film draws in media and people because it literally is one of a kind. No one was expecting a movie like this, this is because of the huge twist towards the end of the movie. The process of this movie was obviously just filming it, but the film makers did a great job, there are many great camera angles in the film, some that make you want to rewind just to see again.



Hyper immediacy
A great example of hyper immediacy is the Marc Ecko Website, marcecko.com. The website looks so interesting at first, but theres just too much to look at. It leaves the user almost dumbfounded, not knowing what to click on first. I didn't find myself, "getting into", the website mentally, I was kind of bored actually and uninterested. The process of the website must have taken a while to complete. I think its a very impressive website in terms of skill, but there is simply too much content. I don't think the site works at all.


Remediation
My remediation idea was to use Grand Theft Auto. If you dont know anything about it, you can find it on my site, http://mywebspace.quinnipiac.edu/zpfreed/projects/250/gta/gta.html. The game is a fantastic form of remediation. It has roots from The Godfather movie series and many other books and media forms. Each game has a unique storyline and each world is based on real places. The most current game, GTA4 is based heavily on a New York City that Rockstar Games created.


Refashioning

There are so many characters that are remade and reused from time to time. Vampires are huge. The Blade series, Teenage Vampire, Nosferatu, all different recreations of vampires. There are so many other references in cartoons, food (Count Chocula, for one), books, and many other forms of media. Underworld uses them as well. Another thing that is reused is the "superhero" model. What I mean is, the freak accident that leads to someone becoming a superhero. Now, the freak accident isn't always a near death experience. Superman was a freak, from another world, while Spiderman was a normal boy that got bit by a mutant spider and almost died. The Fantastic Four were in a space accident and Kick Ass, from the self-titled movie, was just a kid that got bullied a lot.