Title: Exploring Cultural Biases in Media: Changing the narrative through Graphic Design and Visual Media
Description: This week each student will be challenged to think about the effects media can have on the current cultural biases polluting our world. Cultural bias can be defined as the act of passing judgment on others based on your own cultural preferences and beliefs.
Throughout the week we will explore how cultural biases impact us on a global and local scale. The week will begin globally by looking into the current immigration crisis world-wide. While learning about the different effects of cultural biases on a global scale, students will be encouraged to explore their own personal biases as well as the biases they see in their own communities. Through this process, students will create PSA style videos that will be viewed at the final banquet. Videos will use humor, drama, and straight talk to blast a message of diversity and unity instead of conflict and mistrust. Students will also create a one-of-a-kind t-shirt that can serve as an advertisement of diversity in their own communities.
3 comments:
Hey there,
I love the idea of having them create PSAs. We certainly live in the age of mass media. Using it as an art form is very smart. Have you all thought about creating the PSAs to fit social media platforms like having them be really short 10-20 second clips?
-MK
This sounds fun and thought provoking. I can't wait to see your end product.
Thank you Teresa and Mylah! Mylah I do think that it would be interesting and maybe more within our time frame to create shorter clips for social media formats. I believe we were ready thinking of keeping them between 30 and 60 seconds anyway. We might give them the option of either if some of the students are interested in a longer format. Thank you for the suggestion.
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