Assignment: CATEGORY 3 Gendered Images
For this assignment, select an image to analyze. Good places to look would be DVD covers, film posters, album covers (that are photographed not illustrated), advertisement or other photograph you would like to analyze.
+ Your post must include analysis of the CONTEXT, CONTENT, FORM, and YOUR READING of the image.
+ You must post the image (use a "borrowed" copy from the Internet, scan your image in the FMC lab, or take a photo yourself, if it's billboard or large image). INSTRUCTIONS on HOW TO POST IMAGES are after the jump ( the "continue reading..." link at the end of this post)
1. For context consider:
- where you saw (or can see) the image (the magazine, whose the publisher/brand/creator of the image, or website)
- what product, if any, is being sold (advertising a film, selling a DVD, selling album, perfume, etc)
2. For content consider:
- ways that the image is gendered (and raced, classed, sexualized) is being produced (meaning: what story of gender/race/class/sexuality is being told)
- the narratives that the image relies on, for your understanding of the image (i.e. women must be skinny, rounded, hairless skin, heterosexual, to be beautiful and successful in society)
3. For form consider the stylistic and technical aspects of the image, such as:
- framing
- composition
- cinematography
- lighting
- use of color
- costumes/wardrobe
- model's body position
- props (guns and phallic symbols are always fun!)
4. Your "reading"/analysis of the image (what is the meaning/story being told)
examples could be:
- mothers are strong, beautiful and domestic
- rape is sexy
- men must be strong, manly men to be successful
- technology is sexy (and you need to buy this X to be sexy!)
Post by NOON on Wednesday, 9/26!
INSTRUCTIONS to POST IMAGES to the blog:
To COPY IMAGE from a website:
a. Click and hold image, drag to your desktop, use the UPLOAD instructions (below)
OR
b. Control / option / right mouse-click image, select "Save or Copy Image", Save to desktop and follow the UPLOAD Instructions (below)
OR
c. Control or option-click image, select "Save or Copy Image Location", and use to following code to insert the image into your post:
MAKE SURE YOU include all the symbols like < " and > and that the copied address includes http://webaddress.html
1. Instructions to UPLOAD IMAGE
This is the easiest option, when you have the image on your computer!
a. Click on the link to "UPLOAD File" on the left side bar (3rd under "posting") on the blog's main menu page
b. In the pop-up upload window, click on the "Browse" button and select the file from your computer
c. Click "Upload"
d. Select "Show me the html" (Note: if you select "create a new entry.. it will delete whatever text you have in your post). You can choose to create a thumbnail (reduced size image)
e. select "EMBEDDED IMAGE"
f. copy and paste the html (code it generates in the pop-up window) into the blog "Entry" field
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