All of my previous ideas were not approved, so now I’m going to try and present another idea, which is also about my home country. This is very important to me because for my Final Major Project I would really like to do something personal and valuable to me, to be able to use as part of my cultural difference in the future.
Here I was looking at the assessment criteria, and setting the aims:
What is the idea?
• Presentation of my culture into different environment
by braking the traditional rules of visual forms e.g. holiday pictures, postcards
• Looking at my culture from different point of view
• Documenting, and using raw material.
To help you to understand what I mean, I’ll try to explain: during spring break I am planning to see and document my country and its traditions, for a foreign culture to see it. But the main idea and what I like about it is that I am going to present the material, different from what we all used to see about other foreign cultures. I want to try to document my country as it’s not usually seen on postcards and pretty pictures, but its real form, good and bad sides, like I see it sometimes, sort of like being on a journalist mission. I am not planning on discouraging it in any way, but just to let the audience see its real picture.
If my idea is approved, I am planning on going to St Petersburg (Russian second capital) and documenting aspects of culture there, documenting negative as well as positive sides. (I am also very keen on using photography as my collective tool). My next step after that will be Moscow.
Outcome: everything which is associated with visual cultural representations, like postcards, for example, photo snaps etc will be used as form through which to present my overall material, in a way to show the cultural difference, its inner beauty and regrets.
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I appreciate that you wish to focus on Russia and your culture as within your main project- HOWEVER in doing so you are continuously in danger of producing overly personal and subjective work that will fail to have the depth of vision and broad communicative scope of fellow students in your group. (There is also a sense that this project has a first or second year feel in terms of it professional challenge).
You are still skirting around the assessment criteria, most obviously- how does this project demonstrate the range of your skills, what is it needs and purpose and how does it highlight your career objectives.
In addition, because there are so many strong projects coming through level 3 GDComm, I really want to encourage all students to 'think outside the box' and engage in the demonstration of deeper learning.
GTS
thanks allot for your comments, I really appreciate it, especially now because I am really struggling at the moment, trying to find something intelligent and interesting for me at the same time.
I just though that this project can demonstrate my skills in photography and maybe bring up some other skills in journalism, I guess. Well thanks anyway!
Karina
This may be an angle that may be of interest to you- that also highlights your interest in Russian culture and the skills you want to demonstrate.
How would it be if you looked at your own student peer group here in London and comapared and contrasted real and practical experiences to offer a potent view on EQUIVALENT LIFE in Russia?
You could start by guaging student values...not just in their educational lives but their personal and social concerns...examples would be:
WHATS THE Russian EQUIVALENT of:
* Youth tv
* Music scene
* Celebrities
* Snack Food
* Romantic rituals
* Topical fashion
* Reading
* Family relationships
* Gay scene
...etc
You could document real, rough guide information, informative, challenging, intellectual, amusing and incidental- in text and image.
What do you think?
GTS
Thanks allot for this! It’s really cleared my mind! I was thinking about what you suggested, and I guess I can create a very good project out of it. Nowadays in Russia youth culture is growing and learning mostly from the west, being influenced by it allot. Russian youth culture and my generation have always been influenced by other cultures from the west e.g. music, fashion, styles etc. If you look at good teen magazines, you can find a lot there which has been brought from other culture, I guess this is all because Russia just started to change after Soviet time, and youth culture is just starting to develop itself and needs something to look up to. Although it’s trying to bring its own culture as well, which I have noticed, because it is easy for me to see these changes, where I can compare it from what I see in UK.
Thank you very, very much!
Karina
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