mim and i have discussed a few ideas for our project and the one we thought
could work would be to..
- choose a fairytale, then using archival footage try and recreate the same
story
so basically it would mean choosing a classic fairytale, then using the main
ideas and plot of the story as the basis of our remixes. we were thinking
Cinderella could be our potential fairytale.
are you happy to do this? i think if we're all happy to have this as our
main content for our Tumblr page, then we need to make a definite decision
about our fairytale and work out how we can do this idea to attract or
motivate an audience to want to look at our work.
:) - jen
yes that sounds great
i really like the making a fairtytale out of remixed media.
i'm going to think about over the weekend, pof which fairtytale is best!
like which ones the one that pulls ppl in most.
will write soon. what do u guys think, cinderella is the story line u like
best? the emotions? the blablabla
-ange
I love cinderella.. but snow white is good too.. the really dark scary
version...
will think about it over the weekend! x - mim
they both sound good. i think we need one that has really strong
emotions/morals/themes that we can use to make our remixes out of, just so
we don't have to be so literal in our pieces. :) - jen
Yep exactly what I wanted 2 write b4 jen, but lacked brainpower to
form words. Given this trawl thru fables & mythology too. Mebbe look
at motive of fairytales. I know there's some deeper reason 4 them but
can't think. Sat I will brainstorm I think - ange
I agree but now I am being confused by the fairytale idea and how it ties in
with evolution?... am i being too literal? I loved the idea of Kyla's
fairytale ( the one she wrote when she was 6 )
I think the tumblr idea rocks as our platform of delivery and I think
remixing old footage to retell an old fable is quaint.. but why???
This is some really interesting stuff I found on the evolution of fairy
tales... All content can be found here...
http://www.geocities.com/wallstreet/floor/2391/essays/essay22.htm
*Voicing the Unspoken .....*In a time of political censorship, where women
had few rights, fairy tales were one way that they could make their opinions
known. The fairies themselves in the tales often stand for the aristocrats,
having power over many but often caring little, bickering amongst
themselves, concerned with their own power struggles. The heroines comment
on the double-standards of the times, arranged marriages, and the false
glory of war; the tales also illustrate the authors' ideas on the standards
of correct manners, justice and love.
*Women's Tales...*
Women's talk has been frightening and dangerous since even before the Church
taught that Eve's words tempted Adam and led to the fall. St Paul wrote that
women should be silent, and warned against their idle gossip. The talk of
women was seductive and wicked.
Fairy tales and their relatives, myth and folklore, have always been tied in
with women's wisdom and power. The tellers of the tales were often the older
women, passing on experience to the young, telling tales which outlined
social functions and places, which saw the virtuous rewarded, and adversity
overcome. While people worked at boring tasks, at sewing and spinning, tales
would be told. While the voices of the women were unheard politically, they
were passing on knowledge to the young.
*The Cinderella Fairy Tale*
Cinderella, as a well-studied case of fairy tales, has many different
versions...As one of the best-known fairy tales, Cinderella has over 340
variations and can be traced back as far 850-60 CE (Common Era), where a
version was written down in China.
Different versions of the stories ended in different ways. Perrault's
version is perhaps the one that has been adopted the most widely; it ends on
a happy note, with Cinderella forgiving her stepmother and stepsisters. The
Brothers Grimm incorporated more graphic details into their texts; for
example, when the stepsisters try on the glass slipper and find it doesn't
fit them, they cut off their toes to make it fit properly.
Cinderella, in its western form, has consistently been rewritten and
analyzed since Perrault first published "Cendrillon" in France in 1697. It
was first translated into English by Robert Samber in 1729. Jacob and
Wilhelm Grimm included it in "Kinder- und Hausmärchen", the first edition of
which was published in 1812, the last in 1857. The composer Gioachino
Rossini turned it into the opera "La Cenerentola" in 1817, Rodgers and
Hammerstein into a musical theater production, and it has been the subject
of many films, most notably the 1950 Disney animated film "Cinderella", a
1955 film "The Glass Slipper" starring Leslie Caron, and a 1960 gender
change in "Cinderfella", starring Jerry Lewis.
Much has been written on the subject of Cinderella, perhaps because it has
become such a big part of American culture. Some have written about it as a
reworking of Shakespeare's "King Lear", where a daughter is cast out by her
father because she is misunderstood. The small slipper is said to symbolize
the beauty of Cinderella, because small feet were said to be a virtue of
femininity. Psychoanalysis from the Freudian viewpoint has considered
Cinderella's relationship to her father and her stepmother, and her eventual
overtaking of power from the stepmother. The feminist viewpoint has been
that the story has exemplified ideals for women in America, particularly in
the 1950s, when the film versions were released; the idea of being rewarded
for being pretty and polite, and marrying not just anyone but a "prince," is
looked upon as part of the message taught to women from the 1950s onward.
*The evolution of traditional fairy tales will continue as a trend.*
Not much in Gene Pool apart from this
http://www.pool.org.au/explore/tags/fairy_tales
See you guys in the tute
Mim
