Week 2 : Notes and summaries

The question : Use the remainder of the session to research examples of politics affecting media in one or more of the following media.

I think all these aspects are a medium of cultural communication, film, animation, advertising, television, games. As cultural products, they have a subtle influence on the way human beings interact and behave in their lives. Cultural export and cultural aggression can shake the ideological foundations of a country. For example, China does not have a Christmas festival, but nowadays it is no less popular than its own Dragon Boat Festival, which is a cultural invasion. Furthermore, cultural export, such as Bruce Lee’s films, has led people overseas to believe that everyone knows Chinese kung fu. Then there are the familiar Chinese Fuwa from the Beijing Olympics, the Nezha’s Magic Boy Descendants, etc.

Beijing 2008 Olympic Game Mascots

The most direct impact of advertising is on the economy, but not all advertising is linked to the economy, for example, during the election campaign, some advertising is for the President and Prime Minister. Advertising can spread public opinion and build opinions. And the people who do the advertising likewise have a partisan orientation.

Note:

Generally, people can influence or persuade audiences in the following areas:

Social media
Broadcast News and events
Film and Animation
Television
Media platforms that have potential to influence or persuade an audience:

Broadcasts
Print Media
Mainstream Film and Animation
Independent film and animation
Games
Podcasts
Social media / internet profile
Some messages which are used in moving image:

Subliminal or masked content
Overt / Propagandist intentions
Persuasive / commercial targets
Documentary / Investigative
Independent / Personal struggle, observation or experience
Some main topics of politics in film and media:

Political persuasion
Commercial persuasion
Race
Gender
Equality
Disability
Ethics


Animated Documentarys:

1.Neighbours (1952 film)

2.Tower (Kevin Maitland, 2016)

3.The Sinking of the Lusitania (Winsor McCay 1918)

4.Fight for the Dardanelles (1915)

5.Prelude to War (1942)

6.A Is For Autism (1992)

7.Waltz with Bashir (2008)

8.As the creative treatment of actuality (1933)

9.Chicago 10 (Brett Morgen, 2007)

10.Montage of Heck (Brett Morgan, 2016)

Taxonomy of Animated Documentary:

has been recorded or created frame by frame
is about the world rather than a world wholly imagined by its creator
has been presented as a documentary by its producers and/or received as a documentary by audiences, festivals or critics.

Some important elements for Good poses and gestures:

Better proportion of body parts
Bigger eyes and ears
Spine and fluidity:

charactors spine should maintain it’s fluidity
the shape of spine should be curves
the shape of spine should help charactor balance their bodies

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