News broadcast analysis:
The first segment was on a woman, Monica Say, whose picture was shown and who was arrested after having been caught with her two children, ages two and four, in a car that was swerving. She was dignosed to have twice the legal limit of alcohol and she had marijuana in the car as well. Her children were not buckled in their car seats. They showed her arrest picture as well as they had a clip of the public safety director giving his opinion on the case. This was Kare 11s lead story and it lasted about two minutes. They attempted at making it really shocking to grab viewers attention and to create outrage and interest so that the viewers would keep watching.
The next segment was on two horses that got shot in two separate pastures, but owned by the same person. They used really good photo and video shots and you got a good sense of what happened to the horses, you saw the bullet wounds, and you felt sympathy for the horses. The shooter ended up being a thirteen-year-old autistic neighbor of the man who owned the horses. This segment was around 2 minutes as well.
After these two longer segments, the following were a bunch of quickly mentioned news:
* U of M football player accused of assault by a woman who says he hurt her after she spoke to his girlfriend
* Calvin Collum is a teacher who was arrested after having sex with a student at a high school
* Governor Pawlenty and Mike Jungbauer and the governor's race
* Unofficial winners of the election
* President Obama made an unscheduled stop in Arlington Cemetary
* ROTC vets had a vigil for Veteran's Day
* Lou Dobbs of CNN gave his last broadcast. He is quitting to pursue other interests
This next segment was longer, 1-2 minutes:
Minnesotans are watching more television due to the economy. They had clips of people watching tv and people giving their opinions
This segment was also longer, 2-3 minutes:
High school students were learning about money management in what this station calls its "Take Care of Your Money" report. The students were at a clinic where they went around to stations with a new identity and had to figure out how to live on a budget. I liked this segment, it was well shot and had good interviews.
Next is two short segments, about 30 seconds each:
The first was about a sandbag calculator for the Red River Valley to help figure out how many sandbags would be needed for flooding purposes.
The next segment was entitled "Before we go" and was a cutsie segment to end the show with, California skydivers.
Analysis:
I thought it was interesting that they were all young, attractive, and white. They began with a shocking story and the scary news first. Next they ran short political news, and then they ended with local and cutsie stuff.
News that I watch: I do a lot of internet news through yahoo and various other sites. I also watch Meet the Press every week.
One paragraph activity:
I would have my students in political science watch a few different news programs and their goal would be to record the topics and the angle they were presented in. Their goal would be to look for media bias. After they collected this information from various sites we would analyze it as a class, or they would write an essay explaining and analyzing their findings.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Crime Genre Analysis Powerpoint
Hello~
Here is the access to the analysis Jaime and I did on crime genres. We had a lot of fun recalling the similarities that crime genres have.
http://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AUxg0wZoSxn0ZDVuM3piNl8zMmRmbjhjY2d6&hl=en
Here is the access to the analysis Jaime and I did on crime genres. We had a lot of fun recalling the similarities that crime genres have.
http://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AUxg0wZoSxn0ZDVuM3piNl8zMmRmbjhjY2d6&hl=en
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Activity for Advertisement
I think advertisements are a cool way to get students thinking about content as well as using their artistic abilities. One way that I could use this for my class is to have them create advertisements for our psychology memory unit. The students have to create an ad where they attract viewers based on their knowledge about the primacy-recency effect as well as short-term memory restraints. This would be applying some thicker vocab to an activity and hopefully would aide in recall.
Victoria Secret Advertisement
Victoria Secret Ads always make me laugh...a little. They are usually about a very basic product...underwear and bras. They have funny, yet appealing logos - for example this one is for "Secret Embrace". The women are always gorgeous with long flowing hair that is blowing in the wind. They are always very thin and the vision of perfection. You always think you will look like them. Until you get home. And you try the bra on. And reality hits.
http://www.spike.com/ifilmdetail/2870039/share
http://www.spike.com/ifilmdetail/2870039/share
Voice Thread
Hello~
I did my voice thread on graffiti art. What I used to see as completely a violent disrespect for space, I now see as (not always, but sometimes) creating space and voice to areas where people are not allowed to define their space. If only the rich can afford to purchase space to decorate, where does that leave the rest of us? Why should our world be defined by capitalism and the selling and purchasing of space? Graffiti art attempts to take back that assumption and redefines art, space, and the artist.
http://voicethread.com/share/717173/
I did my voice thread on graffiti art. What I used to see as completely a violent disrespect for space, I now see as (not always, but sometimes) creating space and voice to areas where people are not allowed to define their space. If only the rich can afford to purchase space to decorate, where does that leave the rest of us? Why should our world be defined by capitalism and the selling and purchasing of space? Graffiti art attempts to take back that assumption and redefines art, space, and the artist.
http://voicethread.com/share/717173/
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Critical Analysis of Media/Film - GREED
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7upG01-XWbY
Above is the youtube clip from the movie Greed. It is a very short clip in which Martin Sheen defines the term greed, a small but symbolic representative sample of the movie at large. Using a Marxist view, capitalism and greed is represented in an ideal setting. If you work hard, smart, and are willing to do whatever it takes, you will gain happiness, riches, and success. The main character is of course a white male, with his hair slicked back and in an expensive suit. He is representative of our societies concept of success. There is a definite focus on achievement and also the fact that few make it as far as he has, money is everything, and you need to do whatever it takes to get to the top or your life isn't worth anything (very western capitalist, free market system, Republican).
A feminist perspective might criticize the need for male economic strength and power as a postive force in society. He is representative of being at the top of your game in life, but is it truly representative? He is almost speaking with a single voice, a single perspective that he is saying represents not only society, but the United States at large. Everyone else are the "other" and at the mercy of his economic manipulations.
Above is the youtube clip from the movie Greed. It is a very short clip in which Martin Sheen defines the term greed, a small but symbolic representative sample of the movie at large. Using a Marxist view, capitalism and greed is represented in an ideal setting. If you work hard, smart, and are willing to do whatever it takes, you will gain happiness, riches, and success. The main character is of course a white male, with his hair slicked back and in an expensive suit. He is representative of our societies concept of success. There is a definite focus on achievement and also the fact that few make it as far as he has, money is everything, and you need to do whatever it takes to get to the top or your life isn't worth anything (very western capitalist, free market system, Republican).
A feminist perspective might criticize the need for male economic strength and power as a postive force in society. He is representative of being at the top of your game in life, but is it truly representative? He is almost speaking with a single voice, a single perspective that he is saying represents not only society, but the United States at large. Everyone else are the "other" and at the mercy of his economic manipulations.
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