Tucker's response:
Here is an example of what I might use as a pretext for a multimedia arts project. This one I call "Sweet Man". I like to take pictures of street signs and explore their ambiguities by taking them out of context (ie - looking at them as images...what are they communicating? In which ways can they be interpreted? What do they remind us of when they are not in the street?). I had an idea to one day use this as a fun teaching project: to make a sort of Chaplinesque video of someone on a bicycle totally misinterpreting these signs and getting into all sorts of trouble. It's been done before of course ( characters like Mr Bean make such mistakes all the time) but I haven't seen it done with local symbols and street signs, and I think that students would have great fun writing the script/acting/filming/producing it - and would learn a lot about symbolism too!
Here is an example of what I might use as a pretext for a multimedia arts project. This one I call "Sweet Man". I like to take pictures of street signs and explore their ambiguities by taking them out of context (ie - looking at them as images...what are they communicating? In which ways can they be interpreted? What do they remind us of when they are not in the street?). I had an idea to one day use this as a fun teaching project: to make a sort of Chaplinesque video of someone on a bicycle totally misinterpreting these signs and getting into all sorts of trouble. It's been done before of course ( characters like Mr Bean make such mistakes all the time) but I haven't seen it done with local symbols and street signs, and I think that students would have great fun writing the script/acting/filming/producing it - and would learn a lot about symbolism too!
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