Friday, May 25, 2012

Workshop Workshop

Today I really don't feel like writing, but as I still have to do it, I thought it would be easier if I talk about the workshop work I have been doing this last time (since Ricardo made his presentation I'm not quite sure if I should say "workshop" or "studio" but on this case I'm going to stay with workshop).

So the project me and my classmates has been working on it's called "Ocupo, Luego Exsito". The idea for this project was a result from lots of classes in which we all discussed about what topic we think was interesting to investigate and understand such as discrimination, Chilean educational system, medical abortion an things like that. All of them social topics which we have an opinion about and the idea were to create a statement that we could put out on the streets and make people notice about something that they usually don’t pay attention to.

My personal idea was to talk about the political and commercial control of the television media and newspaper, I think that common people usually don’t realize about how controlled are the information they receive every day, and how this affect the way we see our country.

Finally the entire class decided that we would work on three central concepts: Power, Information and.. Well I really don't remember this last one, anyway we ended up on the concept of a "Responsible Citizen" and what does being a responsible citizen mean.

So we conclude that been a citizen doesn't mean exactly what the laws says.. Actually being a citizen means to take action in changes that you would like to see on your nearest community or even on your country so you don't have to wait until some politicians take resolution about topics that affects you.



Well it's has been a lot of work since those first classes, but I would like you to check our youtube channel  where you can find most of the works me and my class group have being doing.

Especially this motion graphics that I made with one of my classmates.  Hope you like it


5 comments:

  1. dude, what an awesome video, and I fully agree with the message

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  2. wow good animation and topic. I don't feel like a citizen actually, but I guess beign a designer will change my way of doing things.

    I checked your youtube channel, pretty good projects! It's amazing how people keep doing their stuff and don't noticie changes or even ignoring them lol.

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  4. Great videos and great project :D keep working and have success!

    And I didn't know you're classmate of some of my old classmates (the world is little).

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  5. Great Project!! I hope it can turn out in a lot of good things for you and your group, and obviously, for the people whom it's directed. I think that nowadays the mass media control Has been more explicitly, for example, on the video of this high class woman that supposedly spokes against his neighborhood maids...In the end they found it was just edited images...Striking!.

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