Under influence

02/04

Under influence

Video study : Doll Face

About the idea of INFLUENCE

Brainstorming about the media

the media : define the word

09/04

Defining the word media as a source of information as well as entertainment : main means of mass communication (broadcasting, publishing and the internet).

Video study : the influence / power of the media on girls / women

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEbULFMhvFA

 11/04

A Media Star - page 76

about the business of entertainment

Text about Bill Bryson's experience of media training and publicity tours, how superficial and inauthentic they are.

Production about the introductory document:

The cartoonist uses the cartoon as a media to criticize the way mainstream media informs the population. They don't actually inform, rather they are doing entertainment, but disguized as information. Real information is viewed as boring and is rejected.

30/04

Citizen Kane - page 77

People involved in running a newspaper

- reporter / investigater - close to the terrain...out there reporting and investigating

- writer / columnist - office work based on reporter's findings... writing and analyzing

- editor - makes choices which set the tone for the newspaper / responsible for the paper's policy and values

In the extract :

PART 1

2 characters : Mr Carter (old fashioned press - indignant - rigid - flabbergasted - resisting changes) & Mr Kane (modern press - moving in / taking over / new editor / relaxed)

PART 2

mise en commun en fin d'heure

02/05

Brainstorming : dystopia + examples

An imagined state or society in which there is great suffering or injustice, typically one that is totalitarian or post-apocalyptic.

A dystopia often uses existing trends in a society and develops them to an extreme to warn readers against the consequences of those trends.

"1984" by George Orwell,

"Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley,

"The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins

"The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

among series :

"Black Mirror" and "West World"

Through dystopia, authors express their concerns about issues of humanity and society, and warn the people about their weaknesses. Authors use dystopia as a literary technique to discuss reality, and depict issues that might happen in the future. Thus, the role of dystopia in literary works is to educate and give awareness

07/05

text page 119 and introductory document page 118 ( sets the tone / oppression / absence of freedom / people are being restricted in their movements /presence of vultures in the sky : carrion birds that feed on corpses which suggests there is death around... a bad omen)

Elements to identify in the text :

PART 1

who / where (environment) / what / general tone and atmosphere

A dreary environment which appears lifeless. There are no animals, no birds, no people except for the police patrol. It is what the main character Winston is seeing outside his window and it isn't very inviting.

About "Big Brother" who appears on the posters, we don't know who "he" is : an individual? a group? an entity? At any rate, we know that he represents totalitarian power.

PART 2 :

an oppressive atmosphere - people living in constant fear : in survival mode

Their lives are monitored all the time :

- a telescreen records all their activity.  This data is the analyzed and it can lead to arrests.

- the thought police makes sure people conform to the rules of living, behaving and thinking that have been set by the regime.