What is MARXISM?
Marxism is a political and economic philosophy emphasizing the importance of class struggle in society. It is based on the work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels from the middle of the 19th century, and is often described as a form of Socialism. Marxism calls for society’s inevitable progression from capitalist oppression to a socialist, classless society through a worker’s strike.
Marxism was the foundation for many political ideologies which followed, including Communism, Nazism, Stalinism and Maoism. Many political leaders of the 20th century, including Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler, were followers of the teachings of Marx and Engels. The teachings of Marxism would ultimately help to mold many important global events of the 20th century, including both World Wars. Marxism was first attempted to be instilled into a national consciousness by the October Revolution of Vladimir Lenin in 1917.
Thursday 26 March 2009
Potted history
Rough Trade Records was started in 1978. It came out of the Rough Trade shop that was started in 1976 in West London by Geoff Travis. It was the time of the punk and reggae explosion in London and the shop was very popular with bands that wanted to put records out. Geoff thought he might as well put them out himself, so in 1978 he put out a single by a French band called Metal Urbain and then it just blossomed from there. Then, in the early 80s, Geoff found The Smiths. Before that, Rough Trade was seen as a kind of cult post-punk label, but when Geoff signed The Smiths it became a lot more mainstream and The Smiths became one of the biggest independent bands ever. And that carried on into the mid-80s when Geoff started Rough Trade Distribution which, to cut a long story short, was quite badly managed. Towards the end of the 80s, it went under and brought down Rough Trade Records with it. Geoff continued to put records out under different names like Trade 2 and Rough Trade Recordings, with the same ethics. Then, in the mid-90s, he re-acquired the name and here we are again riding the crest of a wave.
Rough Trade Records was started in 1978. It came out of the Rough Trade shop that was started in 1976 in West London by Geoff Travis. It was the time of the punk and reggae explosion in London and the shop was very popular with bands that wanted to put records out. Geoff thought he might as well put them out himself, so in 1978 he put out a single by a French band called Metal Urbain and then it just blossomed from there. Then, in the early 80s, Geoff found The Smiths. Before that, Rough Trade was seen as a kind of cult post-punk label, but when Geoff signed The Smiths it became a lot more mainstream and The Smiths became one of the biggest independent bands ever. And that carried on into the mid-80s when Geoff started Rough Trade Distribution which, to cut a long story short, was quite badly managed. Towards the end of the 80s, it went under and brought down Rough Trade Records with it. Geoff continued to put records out under different names like Trade 2 and Rough Trade Recordings, with the same ethics. Then, in the mid-90s, he re-acquired the name and here we are again riding the crest of a wave.
Saturday 21 March 2009
Tuesday 17 March 2009
Monday 9 March 2009
Danse Macabre - Low Strings Finale
By clicking the song title it will automatically link you to the song on YouTube it wasn’t our first choice of music but we may edit it and insert a slight bit to the opening scene of the film. I will also be adding on my blog some more music we considered to put in.
Saturday 7 March 2009
Props
We choose to go for the casual look in our opening scene. You can quite easily see the students are not part of the secondary school but at sixth form, from what they are wearing. The teacher we used is called MR Wilson and we asked him to wear, what an average teacher would wear on a day to day basis. A problem rose at one point when one of the students had changed what they were wearing in the previous scene so we had to carefully edit the film and make sure that the person’s clothes weren’t revealed to the camera. Here are some more props that were needed in our opening sequence
• Desks
• Chairs
• White board
• Pictures of students
• Car
• Red marker pen
We choose to go for the casual look in our opening scene. You can quite easily see the students are not part of the secondary school but at sixth form, from what they are wearing. The teacher we used is called MR Wilson and we asked him to wear, what an average teacher would wear on a day to day basis. A problem rose at one point when one of the students had changed what they were wearing in the previous scene so we had to carefully edit the film and make sure that the person’s clothes weren’t revealed to the camera. Here are some more props that were needed in our opening sequence
• Desks
• Chairs
• White board
• Pictures of students
• Car
• Red marker pen
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