Just a quick noted about the dissertation…I have no idea what to write about and that lecture on Wednesday about it, really didn’t help!
I wonder if I’ll be better off expanding on my Identity and Diversity essay, but then how comes some current 3rd year IMPs have done things that aren’t related to media theory at all?!
Today is the essay hand in for Media, Identity and Diversity. My chosen essay title was; “Consider the performance of gender, and transgressive possibilities for sexual identities.”
Initially I started writing and really struggled to get words onto the page. I got to 600 words and decided to call it off. I arranged a chat with Chris Pullen as I had asked him to provide me with some documentary films about gender performance. During this chat he was able to suggest other books and films to look at and so I was able to understand the topic a little more, which gave me a better angle to write the essay. I actually understood how things fitted together.
David Gauntlett seems to make Judith Butler talk sense – if anyone has ever tried reading Butlers work, you’ll know its full of long winded and complicated ways of saying things, where as Gauntlett seems to put them into modern context so that you can relate to it. That guy is a dude!
I completed my essay in time of the original deadline before it was moved, which was quite handy really as it means now I have a half week extra to do reading and research for my Media, Censorship and Regulation essay (which is due in on the 6th May). I’m still not entirely sure which title I’m going to choose for this one, but we’ll see.
So I have seriously neglected my blog recently, I’m sorry! I had ever intention to update it but hey ho…
The results are in – I collected the assignment feedback sheets for the Interactive Media Production Game unit this week. WOOHOO! I passed with a 2:1…I DON’T HAVE TO RESIT THE YEAR!! That was one of my biggest fears after having handed in the project. Once it was handed in I started spotting small errors that should have been sorted beforehand really.
Our game was a haunted house game with 4 mini games within the house that you had to complete to escape as you have become “Trapped” inside. As the feedback noted, there isn’t actually anyway for you to escape from the house. We were aware of this in the last week, but literally had no time to complete it properly so just made do.
“Trapped” is available here; Universally Challenged – Trapped Game.
There were a number of issues within our group, as a result I’ve clearly found that there are some people to avoid in the future. A few arguments where had in the last week where tempers were fraying but at least it got done. I was quite pleased with my essay mark, which was completed at about 3am the morning it was due in – my body clock did over time that day! Although I’m not too sure why they say that I need to reference properly, I thought I followed the referencing guide correctly – who knows!
I quite like the comment on the feedback sheet “where the work really shone was the game bible. Despite having hacked to pieces a lovely old Atlas the work was really quite impressive.” That was my bit! 
I poured myself into that part of the task, having taken it from what was being suggested to the finished article and it look ages to find somewhere to print it. I highly recommend the Print Emporium, Northbourne. Independently run local business – it is their life in that place.
Easter was quite a welcome break after the stresses of the project, shame it wasn’t look enough!
