In this session, you will use your knowledge and design acumen to make G111 actually look good.
To do this, you will make posters.
You will be placed in to a new seating plan. This is your permanent seating plan (at least until we get bored of it)
You will also be placed in to groups.
Using pens A3 paper and your own ingenuity, you will make posters on ONE (or maybe more, let's see how you do) of the following topics:
- Media language - the big words we use in media. Not just shot types and camera angles, but hegemony and ideology and proairetics and all that good stuff
- Media language theories - Barthes, Levi-Strauss and Neale are who we have covered so far. What are they all about?
- Representation theory 1 - Hall and Van Zoonen - these people are the 'basic' representation theorists. What examples can you pick out to make their theories interesting and understandable? Perhaps this could be split in two?
- Representation theory 2 - bell hooks and Gilroy - These theorists are 'advanced' because they are more complex and in-depth. So you're really going to need to think hard about how to make this one look good! (MAYBE THIS ONE COULD BE SPLIT IN TO TWO?)
- Audience - key audience concepts, like target audience, and also Gerbner's cultivation theory
- The tide Advert - completely smash this sexist and straightforward advert apart! And make it look good! Also, context! Van Zoonen is super useful here
- Super.Human - Channel 4's ill fated attempt to be inclusive and diverse ended up annoying a lot of people! What does it do right, and what problems does it raise? Remember some context! Is this intersectional feminism? I DON'T KNOW!!
- Kiss of the Vampire - LOTS of opportunities for cool bat drawings and that. Focus on representation here. Gilroy's othering is a good one to use
- Unseen analysis - Grab a high end fashion or perfume advert and analyse it! But use all the big words and big concepts!
- The textual analysis toolkit - make a poster with just the key words and the definitions of the key words we have used so far. I'll have to take it down every time we do an exam...