:RE-THINK_RESEARCH [re-thinking perception]:
Off the back of the research I completed on the Open Systems exhibition I began to think about re-thinking perceptions. That how the meaning of something can be changed through re-thinking the way the audience are to perceive it.
A good example of this is Tarantino’s use of music in the 1992 cult movie ‘Reservoir Dogs’. One scene in particular illustrates this perfectly. It is the scene in which the character Mr Blonde is torturing a kidnapped policeman and whilst he proceeds to mutilate the officer with a cutthroat razor he sets the radio to his favourite station. The station features 70’s classics and ‘Stuck In The Middle With You’ by Stealers Wheel begins and continues to play as Mr Blonde proceeds to cut the officers ear off. This outrageous contrast instead of serving to make the scene less disturbing makes it even more so. Traditionally evil music would have been played here to match the content but because Tarantino re-thought how the scene could be perceived by the audience and replaced sinister music with playful music the result is far more disturbing.
image taken from splinder.com
This challenges traditional conventions by re-thinking perception. I think this has probably been used for still image as well maybe in advertising, which I will have a look about for. Maybe I could create something using images that appear innocent in content but carry especially malevolent undertones.
Off the back of the research I completed on the Open Systems exhibition I began to think about re-thinking perceptions. That how the meaning of something can be changed through re-thinking the way the audience are to perceive it.
A good example of this is Tarantino’s use of music in the 1992 cult movie ‘Reservoir Dogs’. One scene in particular illustrates this perfectly. It is the scene in which the character Mr Blonde is torturing a kidnapped policeman and whilst he proceeds to mutilate the officer with a cutthroat razor he sets the radio to his favourite station. The station features 70’s classics and ‘Stuck In The Middle With You’ by Stealers Wheel begins and continues to play as Mr Blonde proceeds to cut the officers ear off. This outrageous contrast instead of serving to make the scene less disturbing makes it even more so. Traditionally evil music would have been played here to match the content but because Tarantino re-thought how the scene could be perceived by the audience and replaced sinister music with playful music the result is far more disturbing.
image taken from splinder.com
This challenges traditional conventions by re-thinking perception. I think this has probably been used for still image as well maybe in advertising, which I will have a look about for. Maybe I could create something using images that appear innocent in content but carry especially malevolent undertones.
posted by Greg Pidgeon at 1:43 PM
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