New Modules

I still need to re-organize my Science Fiction Book Cover boards and send them off to the D&AD competition. I also need to pick up my grades and speak to the tutor about what to do about entering the competition. Deadline is 20 March.

Got a 2:1 for life drawing, a 2:1 for creative writing, and probably a 2:1 for something else I can't remember. But lots of grades I haven't picked up yet.

I've got a part time job on a Wednesday afternoon, supposedly teaching young people who need an alternative education and are studying music, how to use design software. I think I have bored them so far. Now i have 2 part time jobs.
I've done a business name and logo design for my mum's Training/Life Coaching business and am building a website. Might have to leave that to one side for a while.

Modules for the next 12 weeks:

Narrative Sequence. (Illustration)
Mostly based on Children's Books, but I will be doing an adult graphic novel probably. Need a plot and a concept.
Have to have a few double page spreads ready. Popped into waterstones to see what graphic novels are selling. Some of them have some narrative text as well as speech and images which is reassuring.

Creating a Visual Identity. (Graphic Design)
We are in groups and have to form political parties, and later we will be doing branding and identity individually. Somehow my group has come up with British Identity. Compiled a few web pages to look at concerning this, multiculturalism etc, along with the meaning of the british flag etc.

THS
I have chosen 'Representations of sexuality in perfume/toiletries ads' for my presentation.

Notes:

Sexuality according to Wikipedia: 'How people experience and express themselves as sexual beings'.
Books to look at: Foucault, feminist literature. Mythologies.

Stuff to do: Tape perfume/toiletry ads and record my personal reactions. Semiotic analysis - binary opposites. Framing devices, devices to make the ad seem natural or like a 'window onto reality'. Role of the spectator in inserting meaning. Social context and values of suggested reality. Dominant ideology of culture.

Tutor's suggestions: spectrum of gender: homosexuality through to aggressive heterosexuality/female sexuality. Age spectrum.

Individualism and sexuality.
Values.
Target audience - often very specialist for perfume ads.
Youtube: spoof perfume ads?
'intertextuality' - advertising referencing other related texts
(e.g. women underwater with hair floating everywhere??)
Hidden persuasion.
Feminist viewpoints.