Susie's Lesson; 19th March

In todays lesson we spoke about the reading which had be given 2 weeks previous.  One reading was just on humour in advertsing and the other was on humour and violence in advertising.  We discussed are findings and opinions from the readings. 
Then Susie gave us a page of images, however you couldn't see all off the image in each picture.  We then had to guess what the images were of and they were of didn't logos for advertising company's, for example; Google, Tesco and Mars. 
We were then given a sheet with different company's, foundations etc on, for example Asda, Marks and Spencers food and Stella.  There was a list of words on the side of the paper and we had to link what words we thought represented the company's, foundations etc. 

First Lesson!

Last week we had our first lesson of visual communication with Suzie.  We looked at aspects of different logos and how by just seeing a certain logo, for example; when we see a yellow M, we know straight away that its for McDonald's.  We also looked at how an image can portray a certain feeling and we can try and understand what the artist was trying to portray when the picture was being created.  An example of this is;

We said that this picture is trying portray that the person has agony, deep thought and may anxiety issues.  We then watched a video called;  'The Big Shave' by Martin Scorcese.  Before watching the video Suzie hadnt told us the meaning behind it and to be honest whilst watching the video I was a bit shocked about what the man was doing.  However, once Suzie had explained the meaning of the video, which is; the man was shaving and kept on shaving and shaving until he was bleeding and it represent men at war.  So once Suzie explained that I thought it was a good way to explain it, even though it was shocking.