Monday, June 12, 2017

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.

This will hopefully form the basis of your Critical Investigation next year - meaning you'll already have an excellent amount of research on your chosen text at the beginning of Year 13.

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 next lesson.

Good luck!

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