Definitions –

• Postmodernism – A mixing of different art forms, media and style which therefore, corrupts and breaks stereotypes and theories. Developed in the mid/ late 20th century  across philosophy, the arts, architecture, and criticism; postmodernism focuses on the individual.

• Pastiche – Pastiche work can be seen as a parody of a piece of work as it does imitate certain aspects in order to recreate it. However, unlike parodies, Pastiche works aim to celebrate the original work rather than mock it.

• Bricolage  – The creation of a piece of media or art from multiple things that are (at the time) available. A creation through the use of mixed media or a diverse range of things.

• Intertextuality  – The shaping of a texts meaning based upon/ sharing other texts. This is common especially with pieces of media from the same genre due to the shared code and conventions.

• Implosion – Implosion is similar to the idea of ‘internal contradictions’ in Marxism. It refers to a tendency to collapse arising from the system’s own dynamics – the internal collapsing of all the energy of the real.

• cultural appropriation – Similar to stereotypes, cultural appropriation is the adoption of an element or elements of one culture by members of another culture. This can be controversial when members of a dominant culture appropriate from disadvantaged minority cultures.

In relation to my music video –

My overall finished music video can be seen as a pastiche work as I have been inspired by and taken techniques from my style models – other music videos. In addition, my video will have some bricolage aspects due to the combination of props/ characters/ location and camera settings; variables/ satellites that if changed can adjust the whole meaning of my video. As my video will fall into multiple genres due to their sharing of typical codes and conventions some intertextuality would be expected as this allows the audience to relate to the video more due to the familiarity.

In relation to my Style Models –

Intertextuality is clear in all of my style models through the lyrics which relate to popular or well known metaphors/ editing techniques.