Different Way In Which Creative Practitioners Have Exhibited Their Work In Different Media/Art Forms

Technology has helped the media industry to come along way over the years and each piece of technology has helped a lot of practitioners to expand their methods of the exhibiting their work to others all over the world. Before we were able to use the internet or send emails, we were very limited to how we could show off our pieces of work and not many people were able to show off their work. Pieces art work were put into art galleries, films were shown in cinemas but no low budget films and underground work. There weren't any graffiti artists who would show their work in public or internet websites were you could send around your latest home video. Times have changed and people have became more creative and finding more ways of getting their work around to huge amounts of people.

This process has happened over many year, as only five years ago YouTube was introduced and along with many social networking sites such as Facebook. By us having these sites we are able to put anything we produce on these sites for the whole world to view and without needing to be successful in the business. Even though this is an amazing step forward in the business, because of the mass amount of people who upload their videos, it means that it is now hard for many people to get noticed for their talents. As there are now more people putting their work forward, you have to be exceptionally good to get noticed by someone who would help you in the business and a lot of people are don't get noticed even though they may have years ago.

I have been looking into examples of practitioners who have done significant shows and what made them so different. However, rather then first looking at one specific practitioner, I thought that one of the memorable stages in technology at the moment is HD, Blu-Ray and colour editing. Only in the last few years we have been receiving high definition and before this we were watching everything in low definition. We are now able to get hold of HD channels and watch things which have been filmed in HD. Blu-Ray's have also been introduced which have brought a whole new range of DVD's to shop shelves. You now have to chance to see films a lot more clearer and when watching them it seems to look more real, rather than looking than an ordinary film. Also recently practitioners in the media have been able to spend some time colouring old black and white films to make them into colour and then re-selling them on DVD. This is very significant as we have never been able to see these old films in colour and when watching them you have always wished it. It will make the experience of watching these films a lot better as you will be more of an idea of what filming and the content was like back then. Finally, another similar significant stage was practitioners discovering how to re-touch Disney films so they seem more clearer and a cleaner colour. As these animated films were made ages ago, the colour seems a bit dated so cleaning it up a bit really changes the viewing experience.
I think that the most well known film which has been changed into colour from black and white is the film 'White Christmas'. The first video below shows a clip of the original black and white film and then the video below that shows the colour version of roughly the same part of the film.







I have also tried to look into the media more detailed and look a practitioners and I decided to look at Michel Gondry and the video for White Stripes 'Fell in love with a Girl'. This video is made using Lego bricks and StopMotion to create a moving image with bricks. I have chosen this video because at the time I think that it was something that had not really been done before and for technology is was really effective. Michel Gondry has been known to make very memorable videos but this one I think people always remember even if they aren't a fan of White Stripes or Michel Gondry. Below I have pasted the video for the song.