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Femme Fatale Propaganda

I created a negative, name-calling, and hateful type of propaganda towards femme fatales and temptresses. Femme Fatales that are in Noir Films can be seen as dark, dangerous, and seductive; Or known as being too “free”, wild, or unorthodox. This poster was intended to have a futuristic take on anti-femme fatale propaganda. This propaganda would come from those that feel anxious or threatened by women holding some type of power and then trying to suppress them. Femme Fatales may not always have the best intentions but in a deeper look into the hatred for femme fatales, it’s also about people and media portraying that women overall should be submissive, obedient, and innocent. Rather than independent or dominant.

Femme Fatales can also represent power, and that idea goes against the masculine rule of patriarchy. The idea that a woman must subject herself to submission in order to survive. Although, even in a lot of femme fatale noir films women face animosity from men and in the end their “power” or “dominance” is taken in some type of way. Which really defeats the whole purpose. It’s seen that these are evil women who need to be punished or called out on.

My character Sapphria Mae’s archetype is femme fatale so that is why I created this poster. I know in real life, even in futuristic times, she would probably face some type of hatred for her not adhering to the rules of patriarchy. Some may think that she needs to change, or she needs to fix her attitude. But she doesn’t. And she won’t. Muahah. Her power and independence are eternal and will never be able to be diminished.

Femme Fatales are not always the enemy. In either case, they will rise in adversity and will not be defeated by anti-fem propaganda.

I hope I demonstrated emotional appeal in this propaganda poster, aside from the reading to go along with it. Comment below and let me know what you think.

Summary of the Week

Here we go!

Revisiting Goals from Week 1!

In the link above is my post for revisiting and revising my goals. Overall, I think that I achieved the goals I had originally set for myself. I did revise them to be more fitting for the rest of the semester, also made sure to make the goals challenging for ME. One of the main things I need to work on is video creation and editing. Although, this week and last week’s video assignments allowed me to practice more with that. I definitely feel more comfortable with video editing after this week. I’m excited about incorporating all of this into the future group assignment. I think that is really where a lot of my revised goals will be accomplished at.

I decided to go will choice B for this week’s Assignment Load

My choice of any 3 video assignments from the Assignment Bank. Involving my character in some way in at least two of them!

Assignment #1:

Tips From Your Local Femme Fatales. For this assignment, I made a video using Canva that talks about 10 tips that my character, Sapphria, and her close femme fatale friends could give to you all.

Assignment #2

Ranking Fruits from 1 – 10. I did this video for myself. I wanted to practice making videos with Canva a little bit more. The only other video I’ve created with Canva was for assignment #1 up above. I explored different video designs, and I found one that actually counts down from #10 (Fruits that I like but not my fave) all the way to #1 (My favorite fruit). This was a very simple assignment, but I really wanted to explore more on Canva and practice using the tools on there for future weeks ahead. I create a lot of regular poster designs but up until this week I had no idea you could create video designs on there as well!

Assignment #3

Where Would Sapphria Go? In this video creation I came up with 3 places that I feel like my character would love to travel to. I chose Giza, Monaco, and Tokyo. Sapphria Mae loves Exclusivity, Expensive things, and unbelievable experiences. That is what these places will be able to offer her!

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Daily Creates – Week 6 🙂 This week I made 2 daily creates. In one of them I stuck with our class theme by posting a cyberpunk bike. The other post I talked about my safe haven!! I also loved seeing everyone elses work as well this week.

LAST THING

I voted for the top 3 post I loved the most! Great work everyone!

Where Would Sapphria Go?

https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/1058807579/a371614746

Assignment #3 from the Video Assignment Bank this week; Where do you want to go?

The places in this video are all of the places that my character wants to travel too for her various reasons; To Giza, Monaco, and Tokyo. I chose these places for Sapphria because they are either exclusive, expensive, or entertaining to her. Sapphria loves secret treasure and will go on a risky mission to find it. She also loves living in lavish with other people’s money. And she thrives in the fast lane giving her many things to keep her busy.

I created this video on Canva, AND I successfully added music/sound effects to it! I found the sound effects on freesound.org. For each slide I added a fitting background color to it, I also added pictures of each place, and I added pictures of my character, her beloved sapphire gems, and airplanes or travel photos. For each different place I added a new font that I felt was themed or appropriate for the place.

Revisiting Goals from Week 1!

My original goals are posted here and posted below:

Three goals I wanted to achieve:

  • Effectively tell a story through my work.
  • Use new techniques that will make my content engaging.
  • I want to learn more about my creative side. Most courses that I’ve been taking are business related. Some possible skills I’d like to work on: Selecting imagery and music, feeling more comfortable with recording myself, and familiarizing myself with these new online publishing formats.

So far, I feel like I have achieved these current goals. I effectively told a story in my sound effect story creation. Also, when creating my character, Sapphria Mae.

Each week, I try to come up with an engaging Title/Headline for my posts, create content that goes along with the class themes, and using themes in my work. I really try to do this in the Daily Creates as well, here is one of my daily create posts with my week 3 creations and posts.

Learning how to use audacity, using iMovie to create a scene analysis, and getting more comfortable with Canva. I’ve used Canva for a good portion of the assignments. I think I’ve definitely found more creativity in myself and have gotten much more comfortable and confident with using these platforms and formats. For example, on week 2 I put all of my “posts” in one post because I thought it would look better. So, each day I would add to that one post. I then received feedback on the post and saw other students work and I see that it’s much better to format the post individually because I can share them easier and receive comments on the individual posts. I’m also not hording them all week and then blasting everyone with my work all at one.

Revised/Refine Goals

  • Effectively tell a story through my character. I’ve gave little bits and pieces of my character throughout each week’s assignments, but I can’t wait to actually put together many pieces and elements of my character that I’ve built up in different ways and put it all together. Especially in the group assignment. While also incorporating the class themes.
  • Use new techniques that will make my content engaging, such as; Adding music to my work from now on, adding in extra details, designs, and images to enhance my work. Learning all of the new material has been a little challenging in itself but now that I’ve had some practice with the basics, I would like to take it up a notch each week.
  • I’ve loved getting to be creative in my own way in this class. I haven’t recorded myself yet in a video but eventually I’d like to challenge myself to do that. Getting more comfortable with recording myself and hearing myself in audio recordings is a big goal that I would like to accomplish.

Review your assignment posts and weekly summaries. How do they make the case for your efforts to challenge yourself? Do they do a good job of showing and explaining the evidence?

I’ve reviewed my work, and I believe that I have put in a lot of effort to challenge myself. At least one assignment per week from the assignment bank I try to pick a higher rated or starred assignment. I try not to only do the one or two starred ones. Working on the new platforms and learning how to use different tools has been challenging for me in itself because I’m very unfamiliar with them. I think some of the greatest work that I did was during the week that we worked on with and sounds. I put in the effort to create a cool ds106 radio bumper, made a new beat, and created a sound effect story which was very rewarding when hearing the final outcome. Also hearing the bumper live on the DS106 radio station with my fellow peers. Creating and forming the outline for my character was also a big accomplishment of mine in this class. A couple assignments that I’m proud of making that incorporated my character are: Missing Person’s Alert – Where Did Sapphria Mae Go?, Let’s Get Some Dinner where I created a Sapphria Mae Menu, and this week I created a video on Tips from Sapphria Mae and Her Local Femme Fatal Friends. I can’t wait to introduce her even more to the class.

Are there areas where you feel you need help?

I think I need help with video editing. This has been the main thing that I’ve struggled with in this class, was creating and editing video content. Although, this week has shed some light on how I can improve. I have some ideas for future assignments. I also have been looking at my peers work for tips and ideas on what I could in the future.

Daily Creates – Week 6 :)

The two daily creates I completed are posted below:

DC #1: Just like riding a bicycle

I chose to find a picture on Google for this one because I don’t currently own a bike. Although, I wish I did!! Riding a bike was one of my favorite things to do outside as a kid. By myself or with friends. I also chose a bike that represented our class them, Cyber Punk bike!

DC #2: My Safe Haven

I posted a canvas with 3 pictures on it that represents my safe haven; Which are the beach, the spa, and the gym. I always find peace, clarity, and happiness when I go to these places. I find them very important to my mental health. I’m glad I got to share that with you all and I loved seeing everyone else’s safe havens as well.

I loved seeing everyone else’s work so far this week and I can’t wait to see and comment on you all’s work for the rest of the week!

Great job on week 6 daily creates everyone.

Ranking Fruits from 1 – 10

This assignment was to Make A Top 10 or Ranking Video from the assignment bank. I chose this one because I thought it would be a fun assignment that I did for myself. In my first assignment for this week, I used Canva to also create that video assignment (Tips From Your Local Femme Fatales – Your Weekly Adrenaline Rush) and I really wanted to make another one like it.

I ranked fruits from 10 (being a fruit I like but not my favorite) to number 1 (which is my favorite fruit). In Canva I found a top ten video design that I used. Then I found pictures of fruits on google or on Canvas element tab. I started places the pictures from 1 to 10 on how I felt about them. I then chose backgrounds for each page in the video that was fitting to each fruit and moved the numbers to the top left-hand side of the page. The last edits I made were to the size and placements of the pictures.

I really enjoyed using Canva for the first video assignment and wanted to practice using it again. I didn’t realize how powerful of a tool Canva really is!!

Thank you guys for watching and reading this post 🙂

Tips From Your Local Femme Fatales

For one of the assignments that I chose to work on this week was the 10 tips Assignment from the Video Assignment Bank.

The 10 tips in this video clip are from my character Sapphria Mae and all of her femme fatale friends.

I created this video using Canva. I found a bunch of other femme fatale inspired photos on Google and used them throughout the video. Then I came up with most of the content for the tips but used google for some inspiration for a few of them as well. In Canva I found 10 video clips that I liked and tried to diversify each one with new designs that were fitting to the tips and the pictures I added to them. Then I added the tips and pictures in and then customized each page. Most pages already came with text boxes, the specific fonts, and the designs/art on them as well so I didn’t really have to focus on that too much.

After completing that, I did some final editing to the number of seconds on each clip. I did about 8 seconds per slide because I figured that would give people a decent amount of time to read the tips and view the pictures. I uploaded the video to my Vimeo account and then linked it here to this page.

I hope you all enjoy the tips from Sapphria Mae and her friends 🙂

Week 6 – This week’s assignments had new challenges for me to overcome! I did have fun though :)

I completed my Daily Creates and had fun communicating with my peers. I also had fun looking at others work and commenting on their pages!!! Great job on the video essays everyone!

The video essay was a little challenging for me because I hadn’t done one of these before, but I quickly got the hang of it and found a solution. I did my essay on the Black Mirror episode “Hated in the Nation”. I’ve watched other episodes of Black Mirror but hadn’t seen this one yet, so I enjoyed watching this episode and getting to pick apart a scene to analyze.

The material and readings this week were very relevant and helped me created the analysis for my video essay. I loved learning about how to capture an emotion! That was my favorite part of this week’s readings. I also enjoyed relating our Technoir theme to my essay and kind of putting all the puzzle pieces together.

Lastly, I enjoyed voting and checking out everyone’s work for this week! I found some new techniques or processes that I may try for the week 6 assignments from looking at my classmate’s work. Thank you all for including what you did and how you did it.

Happy V-Day! 🙂

Hated in the Nation – Scene Analysis

I did my video essay on the Black Mirror episode called “Hated in the Nation”

I thought it was interesting how camera shots and angles can create an invasion of privacy, secrecy, and exposure to the viewers in this scene. I got to analyze how the views of the camera effected the both the viewer and the characters emotions. Also, how different shots can magnify, intensify, and capture how characters feel in the film. It’s really something that I never had to think about but it’s quite interesting.

One thing that I really liked learning in the materials from this week is how to capture an emotion. It’s really a lot to take in and apply on your own because there are so many different things that go into this process. Although, what caught my attention the most is how emotion takes time to capture. Depending on how long a scene is, is one of the factors that depends on how the viewer will capture the emotions. You could play the same scene twice, and speed one video up and slow the other one down and it can change the entire emotion. It was interesting trying to find that in my analysis. The way the camera stood still and exposed the woman’s dead body in the scene, the way the detective was looking back and forth at the body and at the doctor for more information, and the other lady’s eyes seemed to stay more peeled on the lady’s dead body than the doctor in some scenes.

It was also interesting to tie into how this scene represents tech noir. This entire episode really represented tech noir by blurring the lines between humans, insects, and machines, and AI and robotics. The government tried to come up with another solution to bees becoming extinct by creating these “ADIs” automated drone insects. Long story long, a few people died because of the corruption of the drone insects. It really built a relationship between the natural and the artificial and how the natural can corrupt the artificial. I guess they were just a product of their environment. If used correctly it would have been a great idea, but because of human corruption, they became detrimental and disrupted the sensory capacity of human perception. It really pushes the line that is drawn between how much humans should depend on AI, robotics and automation to do natural processes.

I haven’t done a video assignment like this before, but I create this video on iMovie to upload the video recording and then do a voice over. I then uploaded it to Vimeo to share it here.

Thanks for tuning in.

Daily Creates Week 5 :)

Daily Create #tdc4778

My first Daily Create – A Found Poem, I was inspired by the idea that Sarah Honeychurch had done for her poem. Sarah used the first words of the subjects of the emails that were in the inbox folder for the day. I basically did the same, except for a few of the poem lines in mine I added the second word to the subject email.

Here is my poem 🙂

Invoicing
HR
No Reply
Cancelled
Taking Leave
Expected
Approved

Daily Create #tdc4779

My second Daily Create – Put it elsewhere, I found a photo of the desert with the statue of liberty cropped in the picture. I chose this photo because it gave me tech noir vibes and it was fitting for the daily create task. The photo seemed a little darker and black around the edges and the statue of Liberty was not green but a tan-ish color with little pebbles of blue sparkles around it. Here is my photo: