week 3 session 1

4 final concepts for interim presentation.

After discussing my concepts with my group, we came to the decision that the school zone sign one was the most representative of my theme and the most effective visually. 

After getting my feedback, i realised that my theme might not be as clear as I thought to other people. 

Only 2 people out of 5 got my theme right, a lot of people thought my theme had to do with homelessness. 

I have been having trouble combining the education side of my theme with the material depreavation side of child poverty, it also seems that it has been throwing people off a little bit when looking at my poster, 

A decision concerning my topic needs to be made : to focus of education or material depravation. I am thinking on trying to focus merely on the lack of material goods aspect in order to get my message across more. Also to eliminate any possible confusion between homelessness and child poverty, i will try and focus more on the child aspect of my project ( maybe a childish style ? or childhood related objects in my posters? )  

week 2 session 2

During last thursday's class we were shown how to use Noun Project and for the couple of hours after that we had to use noun project to transform one of our thumbnails from last class and independent study time into a poster concept.

over the week end I prepared for the interim presentation and brainstromed once more about my societal issue and came up with a some potential poster concepts for Monday.

Concepts:

week 2 session 1

Monday 25th of July

in Today's class we had to summerise our topic and inequality in one sentence and explain our topic to other people to see what sentence they would come up with.

the key word for mine was consent, however people could not fully grasp the idea of the inequality of the rape culture in New Zeland.
refinement of idea:
-equality around power
-equality for safety
-sexual equality

key word: consent:
the right to feel safe
communication is key
looking up to the media, they influence our views on women.

try a call for action or try to raise awarness is a key aspect of the posters
After that we started ideating for our posters based on random objects or pharses given to us:

after this class I realised that my idea of the Rape culture as a societal issue did not fully fit under the umbrella of inequality or equality in New zealand. As this was the main issue I was interested in raising around gender inequality I decided to restart a mindmap and start from square one.

As I was talking to my flatmate, currently studying sociology about her media paper, we raised the issue of child poverty in NZ, which I had never considered a very big issue until I looked up some facts and statistics:

1 in 4 children live without the basics in Nz
in 2014 13% of students left secondary school with no qualifications
material depravation
those children have a poor health, poor educational outcomes, poor cognitive, psychological and social functioning
links:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11539592

these children have a hard time concentrating at shcool, which lowers there potential and slowly pulls them back into the cycle of poverty, just because they cannot have the essentials like food or warmth

to summarise my topic in one sentence: I want to raise the issue of material depravation in child poverty( and possibly further go into the impact it has on low socioeconomic children's learning abilities) in comparison to the ones without those struggles.

ideation of this new topic:

pick 2 thumbnail and turn them into A4 posters:

week 1 session 2

in Thursday's class we were paired with an affirmative group to debate the topic of " is 21st Century New Zealand equal?". My team had to argue against that statement. We talked about Gender inequality, racial and cultural inequality as well as educational inequality. 

after this we had to brain storm about an issue we were interested in. I first started looking into gender inequality and then found out more about the Rape culture in New Zealand. 

1 in 5 women will be sexually assaulted .

Nz is one of the worse OECD countries about sexual assaut

education is key to creating change

"sex with attitude" 

Roast bustersvscandal (2013) 

Rape: unlawful sexual intercoourse or any other sexual penetration of the vagina, anus or mouth of another person without the consent of the victim.

Consent: to permit, to approve or agree to something. 

week 1 session 1 (monday 18th of July)

Week 1 session 1:

In this first lecture back after the break, we were introduced to the concept of visual rethorics including:
- juxtapositon
-subvertion
-parody
-hommage
-satire and pastiche

in a class exercise ( in small groups ) we got given a set of images. We had to identify the Ihi and Wehi of each image before presenting our findings to the rest of the class. ( the best example from the set I was given was the Macdonald satire/subvertion "there is a Little M in everyone", the poster was about obesity, the back of an obese person is visible and does not fully fit in the poster, the quote used in the poster had also a dark twist to it, making the audience smile and think of it as funny but also a little bit disturbing, uncomfortable and maybe also even sad when the obsese person is compared to the person ( at the back of the poster ) jumping and looking reasonably fit and enjoying life while the person in the foreground just stands there, out of the fun, just watching it happening. )

After this exercise we were splitted into groups for Thursday's debate. My group has to debate inequality in New Zealand. I am going to look into Gender inequality in New Zealand at first and then further concentrate on the LGBT community, unless I come accross an important issue while doing my research. I will then share my research with my group wednesday afternoon, where we will decide on the speakers and main key points to debate.