ENTRY #2

ANALYSING THE QUESTIONS

The three questions

After I go through all of the questions in my previous post, there's this three questions that catch my eyes, those questions are:

Question THREE
Examine the role of women in local or regional fashion-based traditional mass media. How are women represented? Do they relate to everyday ideas and attitudes of women? 
When we're talking about fashion, women are often being relate and mentioned when it comes to the fashion world. For this question, I need to explain how are women get represented in the fashion world in Malaysia.  

Question FIVE
Trace the career of an icon in the industry related to your major. Analyse the significant phases, work, and personal qualities that propelled this individual to his or her acclaimed status. Did any institutions contribute to his success or failures as well? 
There's plenty of talented designers worldwide. For every famous ads or movie, there's sure will be a person who's running and designing it. As in Malaysia, the late Yasmin Ahmad will be the first person to be mention when it comes to multimedia or movie industry. whereas at oversea, when it comes to meaningful advertisement and nice ads, Leo Burnett and Federico Mauro will be the designers that are going to be mention all of the time.  

Question SIX
Critically examine the popular usage of digital cameras, Photoshop, or Instagram, and its impact on professionals in the creative industry.
It's already 21st century now, all sorts of software and devices are being created by the humans. Nowadays, these few famous software's and devices has given a lot of impact on professionals in the creative industry.  

YEAR 2: Media Culture ENTRY #1

CHOOSING THE RIGHT TOPIC

For this Media Culture lesson, we're given 6 topics to choose from and pick only 1 topic out of 6 and we have to make a research for it. Here are the 6 topics that are given for us to choose from,

Question ONE
Compare the advertisement of a local brand in different language editions and demonstrate how semiotics can reveal the differences and similarities between them. 

Question TWO
Explore the ideas of modernism and postmodernism in action films made in the last thirty years. By textually analysing your chosen films discuss how the ideas are presented and understood by the audience. 

Question THREE
Examine the role of women in local or regional fashion-based traditional mass media. How are women represented? Do they relate to everyday ideas and attitudes of women? 

Question FOUR
Compare and contrast a series produced locally/regionally to a thematically similar one produced in the West (America/Europe). What values and attitudes are being portrayed? How are they being portrayed and do they reflect reality? 

Question FIVE
Trace the career of an icon in the industry related to your major. Analyse the significant phases, work, and personal qualities that propelled this individual to his or her acclaimed status. Did any institutions contribute to his success or failures as well? 

Question SIX
Critically examine the popular usage of digital cameras, Photoshop, or Instagram, and its impact on professionals in the creative industry.