1. Appropriation — the ability to
meaningfully sample and remix
media content
Play — the capacity
to experiment with
one’s surroundings
as a form of
Collage Task
problem-solving
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cltectic-method-visual-mash-up-
artists
Distributed
Cognition — the
ability to interact Judgment — the ability to
meaningfully with evaluate the reliability and
tools that expand credibility of different
mental capacities information sources
2. Aim
• Practical task
• Factual knowledge
• Reflective exercise
• Research component
• Skills progression for Q1a (log what you do)
• Personal perspective
3. Task – Mash-Up
• Plan and create your own collage that presents your
view to this question:
• To what extent does the media offer a range of
representations of immigrants?
• Produce an A3 print*, which combines scanned
images, photographs, painting, quotes. Use layering
and other suitable Photoshop techniques. Your picture
should represent your view. It can be emotional, it can
be expressive, it should be personal
• *Some of you might decide to make a mash-up video
4. Ingredients
• Theory PP
• Newspaper headlines/articles – broadsheet
and tabloid
• Your notes
• New – images, text, other
quotation, tweets, UGC
5. Plan
• Get all individual material together
• Write a short paragraph that would
accompany your collage:
• In this collage Perera presents his view of
media representations on the topic of
immigration….
6. Mash-up
Apps:
• https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/pic-
A digital mashup is a digital media collage/id448639966?mt=8
document containing any or all of • https://play.google.com/store/apps/details
?id=com.forgottensystems.collagefree&hl=
text, graphics, audio, video and en
animation drawn from pre- • https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/instacolla
existing, third-party sources, to ge-pro-pic-frame/id530957474?mt=8
• https://play.google.com/store/apps/details
create a new derivative work. ?id=com.tinypiece.android.ipf&hl=en
While questioning the law, • Tumblr
mashups are also questioning the • http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/collage%2
0art
very act of creation. Are the artists
creating when they use other • Flickr
individuals' work? How will artists • http://www.flickr.com/groups/visualmashu
ps/
prove their creative input?
Source: Wikipedia
7. Mash up artists
• Still image -
http://howdyinc.com/buzz/?p=106
• Video collage –
• http://www.crinid.com/inspiration/ecltectic-
method-visual-mash-up-artists
