Week4: Alternative Media Workers & Production Manifesto
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Make a stand: your manifesto
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Last Week
• Assignment 1
• The “client”
• Ideas for a project
This week
• Who are the alternative media workers?
• Where does your project fit?
• Begin to form a manifesto
• Talk from social enterprise funder - 1pm
Next week...
• Researched a need / located a “problem”:
• need
• opportunity
• (funding)
• outcomes
• Draft manifesto
Coming up...
• By week 6:
• be ready to begin “production”
• By week 9:
• present your work to class
• By week 11:
• be ready to write up your work
That means...
• Start collating and organising work now
• assignment 1 portfolio - continue this into assignment 2
• consider recording interviews
• ask for permission / explain context
• Think about follow up primary research
Make a stand: your manifesto
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Learning Objectives
• Understand approaches to alternative media work
• Be able to locate your work within the field of alternative media
• Propose a “manifesto” for your project
AlternativeTexts
Alternative Challenges
3 modes of working
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Who are the alternative media
workers?
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4 archetypes
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Who are you?
Who are you?
• Mode:
• auteur / collaborator / enabler
• Type:
• radical / thinker / operator / hobbyist
Your Manifesto
• Maximum of five points:
• What is your media challenge?
• What is your mode and type?
• What type of texts do you produce?
• What will the result of your intervention be?
Next week...
• Researched a need / located a “problem”:
• need
• opportunity
• (funding)
• outcomes
• Draft manifesto
Learning Objectives
• Understand approaches to alternative media work
• Be able to locate your work within the field of alternative media
• Propose a “manifesto” for your project
Make a stand: your manifesto
Image CC http://www.flickr.com/photos/ervega/2057443205/sizes/o/ Disclaimer: I have no idea what this demo is abut and I don’t endorse any of its politics
