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Lecturette 1: Media and Spirituality By: Fr. Christian B. Buenafe, O. Carm
Media :
channel through which the message is transmitted.
A substance through which an effect is transmitted from one thing to another; as, air is the common medium of sound.
FORMS OF MEDIA PRINT BROADCAST ELECTRONIC
GROUP FOLK/TRADITIONAL NON-MEDIA
PRINT
Newspapers
Magazines
Newsletters
Manuals
Pamphlets, booklets
Letters (direct mail)
BROADCAST & Electronic Radio Television Tape recorders Video Cassettes Satellite dishes Cinema Cellphones WAP / Internet
GROUP/VISUAL MEDIA
slides flip charts poster stickers banners billboards (on public transport) Photos journals
extension / information kits blackboard bulletin board maps/charts/diagra ms wall paintings stamps video productions public debates
FOLK MEDIA Dance Rituals Drama Story-telling Ballads Chanters Flute
Praise singers Meetings Songs Popular theatre Drums The gong
NON--MEDIA COMMUNICATION NON Face-to-face home visits Public meetings games/contests Group discussion role playing exhibitions
Networking drama Symposia, seminars and workshops folk theatre, case study Demonstration
MEDIA Is just a part of a COMMUNICATION process. . . :WHO says WHAT in which CHANNEL to WHOM and with what EFFECT. (Lasswell, 1948)
BERLO’S MODEL OF COMMUNICATION (1961)
Sender
S
Message
Channel
M
C
Feedback
Receiver
R
Effect
E
SPIRITUALITY
How one understands the “experience of God” affects one’s understanding of
Christology Ecclesiology Eschatology Morality
Spirituality :
dynamic relation between the divine Spirit and the human spirit “lived and a multiform phenomenon “ “layered process of transformation” Digest: Divine – person, thing or Supreme Being that you consider as divine (applicable to all faiths and beliefs) Human – interaction and relationship of the human to the one he considers divine which would lead him eventually to change or transformation.
FILM AND SPIRITUALITY
Can we experience God in films? Why
do we watch films? Or why not watch them? What are your considerations when you watch a film (mood, values, regulations, etc.) What are your immediate reactions after films?
IMPORTANCE OF FILM Immediate Reactions to Film Peter Malone (On Screen) ‘I want to enjoy myself when I see a movie.’ ‘I need a bit of escapism.’ ‘Tickets cost so much these days and I’m not sure they’re worth it.’ ‘Everybody’s seen it, it’s the in-thing.’
‘Movies today are too permissive, too much foul language, too much violence, sex and nudity. Why isn’t there something decent for the family?’ I like a more serious film. I like a message. A movie should have something worthwhile to say.’
Film and Spirituality Three Key Areas: How do we understand Spirituality? Characteristics of film language The dialogue concerning Spirituality in Film
OR
Entertainment
Anything that pleases us, lifts us out of ourselves, helps us enjoy ourselves. Sometimes it can be easy and quick bit of relaxation – just vegging in front of the box – or simply a time-filler. True and genuine entertainment is something that really satisfies and help us be our better selves.
Education
Thinking of it as facts and figures being drummed into us relentlessly, we may not be very keen on education at all. While thinking of ‘education’ as the process in which we are led out of our ordinary into something better, it might seem more attractive. Education is then seen as more satisfying, more pleasing, helping us to become our better selves. Education is not information, it is transformation!
FILMS Films tell stories and drama of all kinds. When we view films, we engage, participate, identify, reject, classify, enjoy evaluate, digest and criticize. Mostly in a spontaneous way, jumping without order. We speak of many things about the film informally with one another during or after viewing: often casually. In short, we engage in interpersonal communication about the film. We are doing film dialogue, informally.
Media and Spirituality Film as the medium, the language where to experience the divinedivine-human relationship that eventually leads to transformation.. transformation
Film and Spirituality
Bring out the “spiritual dimension” of the story!
Fish out the divine-human
relationship in the story..
Three Areas to Consider
Social Impact of Film
Film as Art
Film as Business
Characteristics of the Medium Film to Express Spirituality
Spirituality takes a form of a story or drama, of dramatized-life stories. (narrative than argumentative level) Always expressed in the form of a concentration/condensation of crucial life events. Always situated in concrete socio-cultural contexts, showing confrontation. Has its roots in religious or secular events or developments like socio-religious context.
Characteristics . . .
Always individualized and incarnated in living persons. (lived spirituality). Quite often takes the form of an audiovisualized life journey. The audiovisual language of film has at its disposal its own facilities to express spirituality and spiritual values and to experience the same.
Characteristics. . . Spirituality
implies visions/appreciation of life, human nature, world and being – often very different and conflicting interpretations and evaluations of them.
Characteristics. . . Spirituality
in the context of the film dialogue is a dialogical spirituality
It concerns spirituality and spiritual values implied in the film story and explored/discovered through the dialogue in the group about the film’s spirituality.
Experience Film Dialogue. . .
GUIDE QUESTIONS From the characters in the film, to whom do you connect the most? What symbols do you see in the film and what do they mean to you? If you will be asked to end the story, how would you like it to be?
CHILDREN OF HEAVEN
Title: Children of Heaven (Bacheha-Ye Aseman, Iran-1997) Cast: Mohammad Amir Naji, Mir Farrokh Hashemian, Bahare Seddiqi, Fereshte Sarabandi, Karnal Mirkarimi Producer: Mohammad Sared Seyedzadeh Cinematographer: Parviz Malekzade Editor: Hassan Hassandoost Director/Screenwriter: Majid Majidi Running Time: 88 minutes Genre: Comedy/Drama
Media :
channel through which the message is transmitted.
A substance through which an effect is transmitted from one thing to another; as, air is the common medium of sound.
FORMS OF MEDIA PRINT BROADCAST ELECTRONIC
GROUP FOLK/TRADITIONAL NON-MEDIA
Newspapers
Magazines
Newsletters
Manuals
Pamphlets, booklets
Letters (direct mail)
BROADCAST & Electronic Radio Television Tape recorders Video Cassettes Satellite dishes Cinema Cellphones WAP / Internet
GROUP/VISUAL MEDIA
slides flip charts poster stickers banners billboards (on public transport) Photos journals
extension / information kits blackboard bulletin board maps/charts/diagra ms wall paintings stamps video productions public debates
FOLK MEDIA Dance Rituals Drama Story-telling Ballads Chanters Flute
Praise singers Meetings Songs Popular theatre Drums The gong
NON--MEDIA COMMUNICATION NON Face-to-face home visits Public meetings games/contests Group discussion role playing exhibitions
Networking drama Symposia, seminars and workshops folk theatre, case study Demonstration
MEDIA Is just a part of a COMMUNICATION process. . . :WHO says WHAT in which CHANNEL to WHOM and with what EFFECT. (Lasswell, 1948)
BERLO’S MODEL OF COMMUNICATION (1961)
Sender
S
Message
Channel
M
C
Feedback
Receiver
R
Effect
E
SPIRITUALITY
How one understands the “experience of God” affects one’s understanding of
Christology Ecclesiology Eschatology Morality
Spirituality :
dynamic relation between the divine Spirit and the human spirit “lived and a multiform phenomenon “ “layered process of transformation” Digest: Divine – person, thing or Supreme Being that you consider as divine (applicable to all faiths and beliefs) Human – interaction and relationship of the human to the one he considers divine which would lead him eventually to change or transformation.
FILM AND SPIRITUALITY
Can we experience God in films? Why
do we watch films? Or why not watch them? What are your considerations when you watch a film (mood, values, regulations, etc.) What are your immediate reactions after films?
IMPORTANCE OF FILM Immediate Reactions to Film Peter Malone (On Screen) ‘I want to enjoy myself when I see a movie.’ ‘I need a bit of escapism.’ ‘Tickets cost so much these days and I’m not sure they’re worth it.’ ‘Everybody’s seen it, it’s the in-thing.’
‘Movies today are too permissive, too much foul language, too much violence, sex and nudity. Why isn’t there something decent for the family?’ I like a more serious film. I like a message. A movie should have something worthwhile to say.’
Film and Spirituality Three Key Areas: How do we understand Spirituality? Characteristics of film language The dialogue concerning Spirituality in Film
OR
Entertainment
Anything that pleases us, lifts us out of ourselves, helps us enjoy ourselves. Sometimes it can be easy and quick bit of relaxation – just vegging in front of the box – or simply a time-filler. True and genuine entertainment is something that really satisfies and help us be our better selves.
Education
Thinking of it as facts and figures being drummed into us relentlessly, we may not be very keen on education at all. While thinking of ‘education’ as the process in which we are led out of our ordinary into something better, it might seem more attractive. Education is then seen as more satisfying, more pleasing, helping us to become our better selves. Education is not information, it is transformation!
FILMS Films tell stories and drama of all kinds. When we view films, we engage, participate, identify, reject, classify, enjoy evaluate, digest and criticize. Mostly in a spontaneous way, jumping without order. We speak of many things about the film informally with one another during or after viewing: often casually. In short, we engage in interpersonal communication about the film. We are doing film dialogue, informally.
Media and Spirituality Film as the medium, the language where to experience the divinedivine-human relationship that eventually leads to transformation.. transformation
Film and Spirituality
Bring out the “spiritual dimension” of the story!
Fish out the divine-human
relationship in the story..
Three Areas to Consider
Social Impact of Film
Film as Art
Film as Business
Characteristics of the Medium Film to Express Spirituality
Spirituality takes a form of a story or drama, of dramatized-life stories. (narrative than argumentative level) Always expressed in the form of a concentration/condensation of crucial life events. Always situated in concrete socio-cultural contexts, showing confrontation. Has its roots in religious or secular events or developments like socio-religious context.
Characteristics . . .
Always individualized and incarnated in living persons. (lived spirituality). Quite often takes the form of an audiovisualized life journey. The audiovisual language of film has at its disposal its own facilities to express spirituality and spiritual values and to experience the same.
Characteristics. . . Spirituality
implies visions/appreciation of life, human nature, world and being – often very different and conflicting interpretations and evaluations of them.
Characteristics. . . Spirituality
in the context of the film dialogue is a dialogical spirituality
It concerns spirituality and spiritual values implied in the film story and explored/discovered through the dialogue in the group about the film’s spirituality.
Experience Film Dialogue. . .
GUIDE QUESTIONS From the characters in the film, to whom do you connect the most? What symbols do you see in the film and what do they mean to you? If you will be asked to end the story, how would you like it to be?
CHILDREN OF HEAVEN
Title: Children of Heaven (Bacheha-Ye Aseman, Iran-1997) Cast: Mohammad Amir Naji, Mir Farrokh Hashemian, Bahare Seddiqi, Fereshte Sarabandi, Karnal Mirkarimi Producer: Mohammad Sared Seyedzadeh Cinematographer: Parviz Malekzade Editor: Hassan Hassandoost Director/Screenwriter: Majid Majidi Running Time: 88 minutes Genre: Comedy/Drama
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