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I played with final cut pro and found out how to edit videos so that only 1 colour stood out with everything other than the selected colour in black and white. The 1st section is my edit were the second section is the original version. 22/10/10

Modenism- is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes both a set of cultural tendencies and an array of associated cultural movement, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The term encompasses the activities and output of those who felt the "traditional" forms of art, architecture, literature, religious faith, social organization and daily life were becoming outdated in the new economic, social and political conditions of an emerging fully industrialized world.

Postmodernism- is a tendency in contemporary culture characterized by the rejection of objective truth and global cultural narrative. It emphasizes the role of language, power relations, and motivations; in particular it attacks the use of sharp classifications such as male versus female, straight versus gay, white versus black, and imperial versus colonial. Postmodernism has influenced many cultural fields, including literary criticisms, sociology, linguistics, architecture, visual arts, and music.

A postmodernist thought is an intentional departure from modernist approaches that had previously been dominant.

States that the presence of women in videos solely for presentation purposes to appeal to male nature rather than being used for narrative function.

Female on display is passive and objectified for a 'male gaze' regardless of the viewers gender.

Voyeuristic treatment of the female body in 'male' videos, and the use of dancers as adornments to the male ego.

The inclusion of women for display is a staple element in music videos across all genres.

Women connote 'to-be-looked-at-ness' and are merely objects of the 'male gaze'

-Verse 1-

Turn my mic up a bit

Yeah

Lets get in to it

Yeah …yo pep pep star

East London stand up ..north ..west ..south London stand up ..even up in the midlands ya dun kno

Oi oi and its not even a post code war

Its just how were living

I’m from where we mostly grown up in a council estate

Probably never seen the day when love cancels to hate

If you’re in the shubz iced out with jewels on display

Just believe there's a bunch of goons with tools on their way

That’s the way it’s always been that’s the way it will stay

Thugs make a bit of money but don't plan their escape

All in the biggest cars and.. Living with their marges

Feeling like a star till their yard gets raid

Laws don't mean a thing

From a place where the government aint took a step in so how the heck can they relate

Where babies have babies like fabolous says one in the hand, pram and one on the way

Thought your hurt man dam then this guy came

Showed her bait of change.. She’s forgotten your name

Failures never our thought now we've forgot you to blame

And we all had targets jus forgotten to aim

-Chorus-

This is were im from ..

And we might not be pretty always gritty living in the inner city L.N.D Still

It’s where I’m from

Yeah it’s where I’m from

Still it’s were I’m from

And it might not be pretty always gritty living in the inner city LND still

-Verse 2-

I’m from where light skin was the in thing

Now its shottas AC droppers with sick rings

Where even your tight bredrins might show a different side

If you glide ahead of them you never win

See it’s a basic equation

P's brings the status

You’re famous

Now welcome the haters

Any given day you can ask what’s the latest

You'll always hear the same thing coz nothing ever changes

Like he fell in love

She set him up

He got robbed retaliated and he got shot

Now he's locked up, box punching a clock

While she's probably out deer jumping the cock

It’s a lot

Round my zones

Divided by post codes

You could of been a different person if you lived across the road

It’s that serious

Bloody all periods

I know all my London dons are feeling this

-Chorus-

This is were I’m from..

And we might not be pretty always gritty living in the inner city L.N.D Still

It’s where I’m from

Uh it’s where I’m from

Yeah it’s were I’m from

And it might not be pretty always gritty living in the inner city H.A.C Still

Its where I’m from ..yeah its where I’m from

-Verse 3-

I’m from where there’s been a few success stories

But all the rest I tend to here bore me

You can either kick, spit, legit you’re way out of it

But when all three fails you catch a murder mile in it

Mouthing it

They’re going out of town with it shit

I got a few brothers that were down for it but went down for it

Know a few smart brothers uni or apprenticeships

Know they gotta make it happen

Though we are not meant to win

And not mentioning

Those who kill for there zones like they own it

When there’s youths with no homes shit

Leting on the postcodes don't make no sense

Don't make no pounds don't make no pence

But it’s the mentality

Treated like a mannequin

Don't shoot the messenger

My nigga and be mad at me

Greaze spreads in every spot like acne

Knee deeper you know how that be shit

-Chorus-

This is were I’m from ..

And we might not be pretty always gritty living in the inner city L.N.D Still

It’s where I’m from

Yeah it’s where I’m from

Look it’s were I’m from

And it might not be pretty always gritty living in the inner city L.N.D Still

Its where I’m from..yeah its where I’m from

YOU KNOW ITS WHERE I'M FROM!!

A narrative is a story that is created in a constructive format that describes a sequence of fictional or non-fictional events.

There are three main theories on narratives by Tzvetan Todorov, Vladimir Propp and Claude Levi-Strauss

Tzvetan Todorov theory of equilibrium:

All stories begin at equilibrium however it is then disrupted, which is set in a motion of events There is then a resolution which results in the creation of a new or different equilibrium.

The chain of events is as follows:

Equilibrium>Disturbance>Resolution>Re-Equilibrium

This is a narrative structure found in most Hollywood films.

Vladimir Propp

• Essentially interested in the narrative of folk tales and identified a theory about folk tales being similar in many ways.
• They were about the same struggle and had the same 'Stock Characters'
• He identified a theory about characters and actions as narrative functions; they provide a structure for the text.

His list of 'Stock Characters' consisted of:

1. The villain — struggles against the hero.
2. The donor — prepares the hero or gives the hero some magical object.
3. The (magical) helper — helps the hero in the quest.
4. The princess or prize — the hero deserves her throughout the story but is unable to marry her because of an unfair evil, usually because of the villain. the hero's journey is often ended when he marries the princess, thereby beating the villain.
5. Her father — gives the task to the hero, identifies the false hero, marries the hero, often sought for during the narrative. Propp noted that functionally, the princess and the father can not be clearly distinguished.
6. The dispatcher — character who makes the lack known and sends the hero off.
7. The hero or victim/seeker hero — reacts to the donor, weds the princess.
8. False hero — takes credit for the hero’s actions or tries to marry the princess.

Claude Levi-Strauss: Binary oppositions

Meanings, including narrative, depends on binary oppositions- he explores these in terms of underlying typical themes rather than events. Conflict helps to drive the narrative.

Man vs Woman

Old vs Young

Hero vs Villain

West vs East

Good vs Bad