- Realism is an aesthetic construct (a created 'look') put together by conventions that are agreed upon at any one time. This 'vision of the future' was an 80's-based sense of realism...
- There is no single 'realism', different cultures and contexts produce different forms.
Key terms:
- Photorealism- creates a realistic photo by using computer technology and can be created by using parts of real footage.
- Actuality - what you often get in police documentaries, actual footage of car crashes, and public violence taken by CCTV cameras.
- Realistic Violence - things that would usually not have a big impact is exaggerated to give the maximum effect. These can be enhanced by computer technology.
What do these studies on realism tell us?
- That realism can be faked and we should not mistake it for authenticity.
- That styles of realism, which are often the result of technology change according to their period in history.
Second Life:
Is second life hyper real? In other words, is it more real than reality?
Something that is hyper-real might be a better expression of a thing than its real form. This is something that is argued by the philosopher Baudrillard who is a well-known postmodern philosopher.
The Hyper-Real:
- The idea of a simulacrum has existed since the Greek philosophers. It's direct meaning is 'a copy of something that doesn't exist' and is something that we have known has existed all along but that we have not expressed it sufficiently yet.
- There are two kinds of image making. The first is a faithful reproduction, attempted to copy precisely the original. The second is distorted intentionally in order to make the copy appear more correct to viewers.
- That many of the most realistic media we know are embedded with commercialism eg. virtual games come with hidden advertising.
- That commercialism invades our reality since they only tell us what they want us to know?
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