1. What are these people protesting for?
2. Where does this take place?
Picture analysis
Discussion question:
Is this picture “selfie” or “self-portrait”?
What is this girl trying to express through this image?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/02/04/world/asia/grenade-potato-hong-kong.amp.html
- Why does this company not have mandatory searches for their imported goods?
- If there are safety regulations in import companies, shouldn’t they follow through with a way that protects their workers even more?
Les Trois Ages
Les Trois Ages (The Three Ages)
What is the artist (Gonzalo Bronodo) trying to show or tell us in this mural?
Why is the top figures head covered?
Why are different parts covered for each figure?
Media post
What might he be feeling? Why is he feeling this way? What is he going through? Have you used this image as a graphic emoji? What have you used it to express? What have other people used it to express? How might you connect this image to your Essay 1?
What might he be feeling? Bus accident selfie
I wonder how can anyone takes selfie on an accident spot.
what might be he wants to express with this selfie ?
Selena Gomez
Is she really happy ? What is she hiding behind that smile ? She’s cheesing so hard , but does she really mean that smile ? . What is she really trying to tell us behind this blissful post ?
Gym selfie
Discuss questionsA heart
By: Eline Cortens
Discussion questions:
- Why would the little girl be giving her heart away?
- Before the Reaper takes the little girl away. Why would the little girl try to teach the reaper the warm feeling of a heart?
- By the clothes that the little girl is wearing, Where in the past could she be from or what was she intending that she was wearing that kind of clothes?
Random girl
What might she be looking at ?
Why is she wearing those earrings ?
what might be she thinking about ?
What can you tell by the background?where she might be ?
Why is she posing like that?what can you tell by her face expression?
Why is the background blurred out in this image?
why did this person decide to take a selfie at this particular place ?
what is the person trying to tell the audience with this selfie ?
Why is the dog walking on the road?
Why are there so many trees?
Trophy Winner
What is the trophy the man is holding for?
How did the man obtain this trophy?
Five Words…
QuestionsWhy is he posing next to the lights?
Where can he be taking this photo?
What made him want to take this photo?
Another Media Test Post
Discussion Questions
Why is Kim Kardashian hiding the left side of the background while she is exposing her body to us?
What even is the background of this image? Where might she be? What is she trying to show us or tell us through this image?
Media Analysis Lab Agenda & Resources
–Use phones/PCs to find media (images, sound, etc.) to share on the blog.
–Show how to post content using the “Media Analysis” category.
—In addition to posting media, identify a contradiction, conflict, or enigma in this media and develop a series of discussion questions (2 or more) connecting to it. No “Yes-No” questions or questions you already know the answer to.
–Discuss 1 person’s post.
–Write brief responses to that person’s post.
A model piece of writing for this assignment is Jerry Salz’ description of a selfie by Kim Kardashian:
The bizarre side of the mirror is Kim Kardashian’s now-famous picture of her ass and side-boob [7]. The pose is utterly banal; she’s like millions of others admiring themselves in mirrors, trying to show some part of their body to best advantage. Kardashian goes a step further. As she gets everything to show just right while admiring her own image in the phone, the third meaning that pops out is not her body. It’s how weirdly stage-managed the scene is. Her body is blatantly visible while her décor is carefully blocked off by Japanese screens. Her ass-crack is intentionally outlined, but she doesn’t want us to see her sofa. Kim has even authored four rules for the perfect selfie: “Hold your phone high [as you shoot]; know your angle; know your lighting; and no duckface!”
Equally idiotic winds of third meaning blow through other recent celebrity selfies. Seventy-year-old Geraldo Rivera’s selfie shows him gazing at his own stomach muscles in a bathroom mirror [8], naked but for a low-slung towel.
Escher, Drawing Hands (1948)
Test Post
Hey
HW for Mon
HW: Finish reading Salz (1-10). Read “Planting a Naysayer” (p. 27 onward).
Media Analysis Test
HELLO!
Was able to find post button!
Test
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I wonder if this is on the test post?
I’m struggling here.
Test Post
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