First Project Presentations

Today, was the first day of presentations for everyone. For this project, we were asked to create something that portrayed our understanding of the media, something that was self reflexive. As mentioned in my first post, I decided to make a newspaper article depicting three different gadgets that have or will have an impact on the media in the both the society and my life. When people began to go up to present, I seemed a little scared because although my project was creative and had a lot of though put in to it, bigger always seems better. With all the different videos, posters, and other big physical projects i felt overwhelmed with my 20 sheets of paper sitting in front of me. SO WHAT! I knew my project was good and I knew i would be fine so i continued watching and began to notice how creative some of my friends are and how some projects had such a strong point compared to others that did not seem to prove anything or be self reflexive at all. I think to most of my friends reactions as well, the two strongest projects no doubt the one with the banana on the piece of bristol board and the one that depicted different types of people in different situations including the jocks and cheerleaders as well as homosexuals and labels put on different people. Personally i thought the best one out of the two was Jeremiah's sock puppet presentation because it had such a clear message and such a creative sense to it that just engulfed me in to believing whatever the hell he said. THATS GREAT! if you can get at least one person to be completely understanding and believing of your project i think your successful. This to me was such a great presentation because it ended with a bang and at the end perfectly and very clearly re-stated the message being explained throughout his presentation.

When i got back to my residence room, i quickly Googled the word "Stereotypes" because i wanted to see what else i could find on the subject because i was so intrigued by Jeremiah's presentation. This is the first image that came up. I think it's awesome and just wanted to include it in this post. It describes his message and my feelings perfectly.