Summer Project: Ignite presentations

Your summer project will involve researching a media text and topic and then presenting it to class in the first week of September in the form of an Ignite presentation.

The Ignite tagline is simple:

“Enlighten us, but make it quick.”

Ignite talks are a popular presentation format online. The rules are simple:

• 20 slides
• 15 second auto-advance
• 5 minutes
• 1 topic

Here's a good Ignite talk about giving an Ignite talk:

Here are some media-related examples:

And here's another Media-related example that shows you why PRACTICE is so important - the speaker never keeps up with his slides and therefore the whole presentation is rushed:

Blog task

Your blog task is incredibly simple: choose FIVE potential media texts you could research for your summer project AND a related media issue/debate for each one. Examples:

Media text: American Sniper (2014)
Media issue/debate: Islamophobia

Media text: Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines music video (2013)
Media issue/debate: Representation of women

Post these five potential texts to your MEST4 Coursework blogs by Monday.

Good luck!