Category: Humanities

Outsiders tableaux and worldview wow this is a really long title and I am definitely not making this unfunny and overused joke because I couldn’t think of a pun


Have you ever wanted to cry…..

Well I have the perfect movie for you! The Outsiders is a sad yet entertaining movie that can teach you a lot about worldview at least It taught me a lot about having a different perspective on life than from other people.

The Outsiders is a book by SE Hinton in which two rival gangs, the soc’s and the greasers, experience life and the world in different ways. The socs are wealthy and privileged and live on the south side of town, they look down on the greasers who have little money and rough lives, or so we think. The socs often ‘jump’ the greasers for entertainment and harass them in the streets. The group of greasers that the story follows stick together like family even though they are not all related. The key players that the book follows are Jonny, Pony Boy, Dally, Two Bit and Soda Pop. These protagonists face challenges that make them question what they think they know in life. Jonny accidentally kills someone whilst protecting his friend from a fatal attack. The consequences lead them to running away, becoming hero’s and the death of both Jonny and Dally. During the story the reader/ viewer becomes very emotionally attached to these characters so their deaths are heart breaking.

 

At the start of the project we had to express our own world view, this was my mine:

World view
I believe that gaming is a sport but its an e-sport I believe this because I am very in to gaming
I like to make friends who also play video games
Beliefs Geography
I think beliefs are very important in your worldview because if you believe something different to another person then you will have a different worldview than theirs but different beliefs can drastically change a person e.g religion.
Geography is very important because if you come from a different place than someone then you might have different thoughts about something or you might have a different culture to them.

Following on from our beliefs we worked to understand the different characters and thier motivations, this helped me to feel more attached to the characters and think about how they would see things.

See my slide show below to discover more.

Next up we had to recreate a trailer for the movie in new groups. This was fun. We filmed different scenes from the movie that show key elements of the story: I edited them into a trailer.  If you want to watch it click below, I hope you enjoy the comedy subtitles I made.

Next we individually made movie posters for the well movie I guess, I took quite a bit of time making mine as I couldn’t find the colour change filter. I put a lot of effort into it though.

The left side is representing before they ran away as things are normal, well as far as normal goes for greasers. And the right side is after everything is going wrong.

However, we then made a group movie poster and I think it turned out much much better than my original one

In doing this I found out that making a movie poster is harder than it looks and it takes many different stages of design and critique and making every little detail perfect. It also made me think about important elements of the story and showing key characters.

Our final project element was to complete a tableau showing one section of the story that we would present on exhibition evening. My group looked at expressing the fountain where Jonny killed Bob. We had to demonstrate it as it would have been during the time it was set and also in modern day. We had to demonstrate Elena’s of world view.

We chose time because drive in movie theatres were only popular for such a short period of time.

 We chose beliefs because Cherry changes Pony’s beliefs of what socs are like. She says “things are rough all over”, referencing how greasers have it tough and socs have it tough as well.

 

Overall the outsiders taught me that different people can view the world in different ways and have different ideas about the same thing or event, they can have different experiences based on their upbringing and ideas of the world.

By January 7, 2022.  No Comments on Outsiders tableaux and worldview wow this is a really long title and I am definitely not making this unfunny and overused joke because I couldn’t think of a pun  Humanities   

My Ad experience

Hello Internet!!!!!!!

My name is Caden and in this post I will be telling you about my experience with the project Medium Is The Message. First of all we were told the driving question of this project, which was ‘How does what we see hear and view influence us? And I said “that’s a good question.” Thus we embarked on the journey that would be known in history as Medium Is The Message.

My group received a business to work with and partnered up to create something that at that moment in time was not yet revealed. We quickly discovered from what we were learning in our lessons that we would be making an ad for HONEYS DONUTS. At first I was unamused because most ads are boring to me and I just skip or ignore them but I would soon learn that making an ad is not what it seems. What I discovered was eye-opening.

 

I had no idea that making an ad was so difficult and involved so many different stages and drafts, which made a lot of great ideas fall by the wayside. Initially, we were building our knowledge, we did this by analyzing an ad by Apple about the Apple HomePod. From this I learned about target audiences and how I could attract different types of viewers. This would help me later on. Here is a link to the video. https://youtu.be/70P7-pkyP4Q

Later on in the project we analyzed historical media, this gave us a better understanding of two dimensional ads and how to make them eye-catching. From looking at these, we learned that we had to make the title POP and make the main feature the image so that people didn’t get bored by reading too much text. From my own personal experience I remembered that when an ad has a funny slogan or a pun in it I remember it more. I tried to include this in my work. This is the media I analyzed.

The final part of building knowledge that I’m going to speak about is our ad journal.  This is a selection of ads that we found in our every day life that we made into a journal to critique them and analyze key elements that we needed to include. From this I learned that I needed to make my message clear-  that honey‘s donuts are the best donuts you can buy- the business told us that!  We also needed to advertise that the donuts were very local. We added the location so people would know where to come if they wanted a delicious treat. Also we learned that we had to make the food look good and when I say good I mean really good these are known as persuasive techniques. This is my ad journal.

 

After gathering the information that we needed we were set the task to make our first ad. Now we all knew that this would not be our best ad and even if we thought it was amazing and could not be improved it would have to as it was only our first draft. This was my first attempt!

Terrible I know. I did not even have the exact address of honey‘s donuts and the ad is very plain. However, the logo is a good size and the picture of the donut I used the whole way through because I like it and I took it myself at the shop. We then went through the process of develop and critique, where our peers and our mentors helped us build and improve our ideas. This slideshows shows my progress

  • This is my first ad it is very plain and does not have the exact address of honey donuts however i like the photo and use it all the way through

During this project I struggled with a few things. These were using my feedback effectively, continued motivation and coming up with ideas. However, I was really proud of both the photo I took at Honeys and used as my main image and the slogan I wrote using the word bee as a pun in “You’ll bee back soon”. I have learnt that in order to create a good ad you need perseverance and good ideas.

Now this project is coming to a close I can finally answer the driving question. How does what we see hear and view influence us as human beings? And the answer my friend is yours to explore, however this is my blog so I do what I want and my answer to this –  we are mostly influenced by what we see as we are engaged by bright colours, vivid images and funny slogans. We are surrounded by ads that influence us both consciously and subconsciously. They influence us in what we eat, what we buy and where we go.

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