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3 page html site/
3 page mockup/
5 page Powerpoint

 

80
80
Root and images folder

Does not apply. You are sending mockups.

40
40
Good/clear design Nice, minimalist design.

30
30
TOTAL
150
150

Root and Images folder does not apply because you sent me mockups.

Make a post answering to those questions:

1. In this second part of the essay we see a better description of how the classical Aura gets broken when the "ritual value" of the work of art diminishes and its "exhibition value" increases (in the case of Photography, because of being used as an evidence of reality).

Give me an example of Photography used for its ritual-value, versus the same medium being used for its exhibition value.
Attach 2 images as examples and briefly comment them.

 

2. When examining film, Benjamin makes a very interesting point: although we think, as audience, that we are identifying ourselves with "the actor", actually we are identifying ourselves with the camera, to be more accurate: we identify ourselves with the editing of the camera shots, that become our eyes, witnessing the story.
Tell me an example of a movie-scene that you remember because of the camera shot or the way the perception of time was altered though the editing.

 

3. Name some other point in Benjamin's theory about Film that you find relevant.

 

 

1. What is "the aura" of the original work of Art?
Give me an example and explain how the aura works in the specific case.

2. On page IV of the essay Benjamin presents a really interesting thesis: The Basis of the contemporary decay of Aura is, according to him, related to the attitude of the masses towards things. They "want to brings things closer" and at the same time "reject things that are really unique".

Can you give examples of both parts of the equation with a short comment?

Those are my examples. For "breaking the distance", reality shows and soap operas.
For "rejecting the uniqueness", burger king, McDonalds, fashion brands.

 

3. Benjamin considers the Film medium as a Marxist revolutionary tool (something that will change how society is organized).
That might sound to you a bit excessive but the quote he collects from Abel Gance, stating that one day, legends, mythologies, historical heroes and founders of religions will be known through film has become strangely true.

Usually, old educated people find this fact as a sign of the "degeneration of Values" (that was exactly Benjamin's point).
Try to be a bit more creative: What good or not necessarily negative consequences could this have in the close future?