Explanations and the thinking behind..

Whilst continuing on the very time consuming and arduous task of editing my bits of type writer style writing on Adobe After Affects I suddenly realised that I hadn't really explained why they are there. I came up with the idea at first because I wanted to explore the differences between the male and the female constraints of school and society, I wanted to think about an interesting way of portraying the difference using the type writer effect, but without just simply writing male and female when the scenes changed. I suddenly came up with the idea of definitions. Throughout our whole life in school and out of school we develop by learning the meaning, or definition of things. I looked up the dictionary definitions with the Nouns, synonyms and adjectives and decided to have the full definition appearing in lettering. 

However I felt that this doesn't have enough depth. Creating my short film this year I am trying to ensure I do a full amount of research to make the meaning of my film far more intricate. I realised that through looking at definition and their place within our lives I had opened up a whole different kettle of fish. 

An interesting point I found was that Alasdair MacIntyre who is a Modern Virtue Ethicist believed that all people, whether they're scientists, philosophers, politicians or just the general public are now subject to looking far more into the intrinsic meaning, or definition of actions or words, rather than combating the issue or trying to raise new ideas. Surely as a nation or a universe what a thing means is just half the problem, people should spend more time arguing over making resolutions and solutions rather than bickering over a meaning. Alasdair MacIntyre also speculated that because of this the universe has fallen into a kind of moral vacuum. This is ultimately caused the corruption that had occurred within our culture, because of this there are three main groups of people that have taken over. 
-Bureaucratic Managers (MP's Government officials etc..) 
-Rich Aesthetes (Celebs etc.. 
-Therapists.

This is very interesting in terms of my film. Within my film i'm displaying how politics intervention with society,  especially within school doesn't actually achieve much in most cases and how as a nation we're influenced by media far more than the government and the media leads us to feel pressure to act or look in a certain way, maybe leading to negative effects such as smoking, drinking or eating disorders. If you look at the 3 main authoritative figures mentioned before there are undoubted links. 

This shows that in fact Alasdair MacIntyre's theory about there being a moral vacuum really is true. I understand that looking into school dynamics means that i'm not looking at the universe like MacIntyre is, however I believe school is like a microcosm of the greater population. 

My research into philosophy and ethics and definitions of words etc may look like a tenuous link, however this ties in with my slight surrealist feel of heightened realism. I want to ensure I have a wide knowledge so that the choices I make within my film aren't uninformed and after all surrealism is just looking at societies issues and explaining the in a heightened, dramatic or erratic way.