Tuesday, 21 October 2008
Monday, 20 October 2008
Global Warning
That is what awaiting for us.
Hopefully it wont happen, but if it will go to the aquashop for pair of googles. No St. Paul`s Cathedral been flooded while this project creation.
Sunday, 19 October 2008
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Monday, 6 October 2008
Tuesday, 16 September 2008
The Political Cartoon.
The Political Cartoon.
The Political Cartoon has a long history and is still used today all over the world in newspapers and magazines. Over the years it has been used to lampoon the famous and notable people of the time. It often involves satire, caricature and contentious issues of the day. They are often humorous in the way they are drawn and they text they use. They deal with current issues of the day and larger political ideas that are prevalent within society.
Timetable
All sessions will be in Room: T401 in the Tower Block. All Students MUST arrive 10 minutes before the lesson starts
| Week 1 |
| Introduction to the course, myself. Lecture on Political Cartooning. Set brief: The Political Cartoon and Introduction to Blogger and BlogSpot Brainstorming exercise using Mind Maps. |
| Week 2 |
| Group Tutorials/Workshops. Presentation of Draft Political Cartoons. |
| Week 3 |
| Group Tutorials/Workshops. Presentation of Finished Political Cartoons. |
| Week 4 |
| Finishing off and hand in Political cartoons to Mansion Site, with course header sheet. |
| Week 5 |
| Introduction to essay/postcards and Time Travel and Wish You Where Here Briefs |
| Week 6 |
| Lecture/Group Tutorials/Workshops |
| Week 7 |
| Presentations of Time Travel research. |
| Week 8 |
| Lecture/Group Tutorials/Workshops |
| Week 9 |
| Lecture/Group Tutorials/Workshops |
| Week 10 |
| Presentation of Time Travel performances. |
| Week 11 |
| Presentation of Time Travel performances. Hand in course work and Post Card essay by |
James Gillray (1756 - 1815)
James Gillray was born on 13th.August 1756 and was the only one of his parents' five children to survive childhood. Gillray's father, a Scot, had become a member of an austere and strict evangelical sect called the Moravian Brotherhood and in 1749 had been appointed sexton of the Moravian Chapel in Chelsea.
From: http://www.mostlymaps.com/reference/Caricatures/james-gillray.php
Gillray's best-known cartoon, The Plumb-Pudding in Danger, which shows Pitt and Nap carving up the globe between them has had many imitators in which the globe becomes a head, with such excellent ones as Nicholas Garland's Mrs Thatcher and David Steel carving up Denis Healey's head, and Richard Cole's 1996 version where Kohl and Blair carve up that of John Major.
From: http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/blog/archives/001749.php
Wednesday, 10 September 2008
Political cartoons are for the most part composed of two elements: caricature, which parodies the individual, and allusion, which creates the situation or context into which the individual is placed. Caricature as a Western discipline goes back to Leonardo da Vinci's artistic explorations of "the ideal type of deformity"-- the grotesque-- which he used to better understand the concept of ideal beauty
Join, or Die is a famous political cartoon created by Benjamin Franklin and first published in hisPennsylvania Gazette on May 9, 1754.[1]. The original a publication by the Gazette is the earliest known pictorial representation of colonial union produced by a British colonist in
The Political Cartoon.
The Political Cartoon has a long history and is still used today all over the world in newspapers and magazines. Over the years it has been used to lampoon the famous and notable people of the time. It often involves satire, caricature and contentious issues of the day. They are often humorous in the way they are drawn and they text they use. They deal with current issues of the day and larger political ideas that are prevalent within society.
Political cartoons are for the most part composed of two elements: caricature, which parodies the individual, and allusion, which creates the situation or context into which the individual is placed.
Use this guide to identify the persuasive techniques used in political cartoons.
| Symbolism | Cartoonists use simple objects, or symbols, to stand for larger concepts or ideas. After you identify the symbols in a cartoon, think about what the cartoonist intends each symbol to stand for. |
| Exaggeration | Sometimes cartoonists overdo, orexaggerate, the physical characteristics of people or things in order to make a point. When you study a cartoon, look for any characteristics that seem overdone or overblown. (Facial characteristics and clothing are some of the most commonly exaggerated characteristics.) Then, try to decide what point the cartoonist was trying to make through exaggeration. |
| Labeling | Cartoonists often label objects or people to make it clear exactly what they stand for. Watch out for the different labels that appear in a cartoon, and ask yourself why the cartoonist chose to label that particular person or object. Does the label make the meaning of the object more clear? |
| Analogy | An analogy is a comparison between two unlike things that share some characteristics. By comparing a complex issue or situation with a more familiar one, cartoonists can help their readers see it in a different light. After you’ve studied a cartoon for a while, try to decide what the cartoon’s main analogy is. What two situations does the cartoon compare? Once you understand the main analogy, decide if this comparison makes the cartoonist’s point more clear to you. |
| Irony | Irony is the difference between the ways things are and the way things should be, or the way things are expected to be. Cartoonists often use irony to express their opinion on an issue. When you look at a cartoon, see if you can find any irony in the situation the cartoon depicts. If you can, think about what point the irony might be intended to emphasize. Does the irony help the cartoonist express his or her opinion more effectively? |
Once you’ve identified the persuasive techniques that the cartoonist used, ask yourself:
What issue is this political cartoon about?
What is the cartoonist’s opinion on this issue?
What other opinion can you imagine another person having on this issue?
Did you find this cartoon persuasive? Why or why not?
What other techniques could the cartoonist have used to make this cartoon more persuasive?
Wednesday, 9 July 2008
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