Comm Revolutions

March 1, 2007

Although the lectures are long, I’m finding the class quite valuable. Some of the areas we are touching on are indirectly relevant to my intended honours project. For example, my script (which I will post more about in the near future) focuses a lot on judgement, and religion and the power held by those who hold knowledge, or rather more accurately, the power held by those who feel they have great knowledge. The film will contain a lot of things, however I would certainly like to explore the ways in which those who think they are right may pass judgement – or those who hold power. It’s quite vague at this point as you can probably tell. Regardless, the definitions of power that we recieved in class with regards to the church in the time prior to the printing press gives me a clearer starting point for research. The idea that a priest who had smuggled a copy of the bible was burned alive is revolting to me but is strangely down the right path for my film research. The talk of “witches” and their treatment (and their reputation) sparks ideas in me for research to give better grounding and some sort of link or relevance to the past for my film, and the main characters. I think their struggles will be modern day mirrors of occurences in the past, because from what I’ve read, the fundamental fabric of how things work hasn’t changed all that much. At this point in time, this is just a bunch of random, generalised mumbo-jumbo, but I thought I’d start writing.