Sunday, 13 December 2009
THE T-MOBILE ADVERT
The making of the advert part 1. Fahad was an absolute star and is certain to appear on TV, the cinema and virally during the T-mobile campaign. Go Fahad! Go...!
AS AND GCSE MEDIA STUDIES: REPRESENTATION
Four months ago a really underrated sci-fi actioner escaped under the radar. "Surrogates" starring Bruce Willis addresses some extremely interesting issues about modern society including the way we represent ourselves and interact with others. I assume it will be out to rent very soon and would recommend it highly. Here's a taster from the trailer.
AS AND GCSE MEDIA STUDIES: REPRESENTATION
Creating the "perfect" you. Our image is one way we represent ourselves to people. Our perceptions of self may differ from the perceptions others have of us. Creating an image of ourselves is all part of representation. Think about your image as a college student. Does it conform to established ideals and ideas of how a college student should look and even behave?
Think about pre-conceptions of the archetypal media studies teacher or perhaps even a stereotypical media studies teacher! Cords? Beard? Black polo neck jumper!
You can represent yourself as a cartoon using free software.
Here's a representation of a certain tutor created using a neat piece of software at myWebFace at
http://home.mywebface.com/faceApp/
It's free to download, safe and fun. I know some of you may even use this or similar software to create avatars from Facebook etc.
Why not cartoon yourself in a way that you would like to represent to others? Is this the perfect you? Would you feel more comfortable if this was your image?
By now you should have realised that the reality usually falls sadly short of the ideal or at least this is certainly true of this teacher - sigh...
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