By-
Neha Shirkande
Parinita Mahindrakar
Sunday 5 April 2015
Film Review
Assignment 6
Capitalism A Love Story
In this documentary my Michael Moore capitalism
was the target. It was about the impact of corporate dominance on the everyday
life of American people as well as transformation of world.
Capitalism is a system of
taking and giving, mostly taking. After watching this film I will likely recall one of the boldest
message that is capitalism is somehow evil. In this film they have shown how
capitalism affects the normal people’s life.
Increase in the technology affecting the less
use of man power which causes trouble for normal people and this is the main
reason to increase the gap between a rich and a poor. Rich are becoming richer
and poor are becoming as poorer as they are not able to satisfy the basic needs
of their family.
In this film this argument has been shown very provocatively that Capitalism is not good and it is amoral.
Have you seen the Arana?
The documentary ‘Have you seen the Arana?' by Sunanda Bhat was about
the beliefs of tribal people of Wayanad. These people believe that their goddess
has turned into the lizard Arana which is getting dissolved by the time. She used
this belief as a metaphor to show how forests and their traditions are vanishing
in this world of modernism.
In this documentary
they have shown problems faced by these tribes and it has been shot by the people’s point of view that
still follows the tradition and not really ready to accept the new growing
world and their traditional believe.
She tried to capture complex issues around tradition, change, mythology,
livelihood and environment as well as how the new generation is not ready to
take the traditional legacy ahead. Why they don’t want to take this farming
further? Why they are not willingly ready to welcome these transformation and development.
Why farmers are committing suicides?
In this documentary they have captured beauty
of Wayanad. To get the essence of their lifestyle they tried to capture every
seasons in their life.
I feel that their
life is so restrictive and mainly revolves around their customs. If they keep
thinking in the same way they will never move ahead.
Saturday 4 April 2015
Plagiarism vs Homage
Assignment 5
Journalist Fareed Zakariya was promptly
suspended from Time Magazine and CNN for using a photograph from a New Yorker
article for his writing.
Plagiarism is stealing someone’s idea, use others work
without crediting the source or taking credits for an idea which is derived
from an existing source. It’s a form of cheating.
Homage is how what similar to plagiarism like using others
ideas but the difference is ‘credits are given to the original one’. Even if
the work is replicated or imitated by anyone’s work, the acknowledgement is mentioned.
Emamples of Plagiarism-
1. Stephen Ambrose was an American author who got caught for plagiarism
and inaccuracy in many of his published writings and other works. He was accused
of lifting of lifting entire passages and sentences from other books.
2. Fareed Zakariya-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXehvhAXHPo
Emamples of Homage-
1.Film adaptations are also an example of homage.
Eg. Maqbool by Vishal Bhardwaj is an adaptation of
a famous Shakespeare's play Macbeth.
2.A fourth year student of Srishti School of Art, Design and
Technology, Krishna Sheoni has made an animated film by taking iconic shots
from Steven Spielberg’s movies to give a tribute and Steven Spielberg liked it
and wrote him a letter with a good feedback. It is also an example of homage according
me.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/STEVEN-SPIELBERG-An-Animated-Tribute/14364527
What I would like to Do
Assignment 4-
The questions given to us made me think about what I really want. As well as what kind of work I wish to work with. These were more about personal opinion oriented questions than logical aspect of looking towards any situation. There are no right and wrong answers for these questions but it was about what I personally feel about it.
For most of the question my
initial answers and final ones was the same. But for some questions it changed
after discussing them among us and looking at it by others point of view.
Initially I was looking at it as a designer’s point of view rather than
consumers. But I thought about it by the other way round my opinions were
different. Like for some questions I thought if I am getting an opportunity to
do it then why not? Or someone else will do it, so might just do it. Unless as
a designer if I am concern about my social aspect that, ‘it should be harmful
for people I don’t mind doing it. But if it is affecting people or environment
I won’t even support that. According to my principles of working as a designer
I would always like to work where I will feel satisfied and comfortable. So I
would never design something where I feel it’s wrong.
The issues like woman’s rights,
environment, workers’ rights, equal opportunities for education and poverty are
close to my heart and I would like to fight for it and as a designer I will
keep these in my mind.
I would like to work on
self-directed side projects as well as on social issues. If I want to change
anything first I have to start by changing myself then only I shall work for it.
I want to work on a social issue- Save Environment and for that I would like to
make posters and signboards. For the same issue in foundation I have created a
huge installation which shows how human beings are converting the nature into
the garbage bin. I would like to take this idea further and make some
illustrations or installation.
As well as I would also like to
work on social issues of woman abuse. Since I was a child I have heard of so
many things about women abuse and have seen it around me. Many times I wonder
about it so much that why woman? So I would like to make illustrations and
posters for it.
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