Laura & Braden Meeting

Braden and I met in the library for 2 hours today and discussed what we should do for the multi-media project and the editorial cartoon. Braden had come with the idea to base the cartoon off this:

but obviously dealing with same-sex marriage. After talking about different possibilities, I feel like we came up with a really good idea for the final cartoon. (Steve we'll tell you during our group meeting tomorrow). We talked about different ways to incorporate the cartoons we felt are most important for our project. I'm really excited for how this is going to turn out. I think Braden is going to do a great job with it.

Since our original idea for the multi-media project isn't going to work, Braden and I started discussing other ways to present the final project. What we decided was to pick 4 or 5 of the strongest cartoons we have and do heavy research on those and then put the findings into a powerpoint.

The cartoons we felt were strongest were:

The last one is a possibility. We have to do some extra research on it to decide if it would work well with our powerpoint.

As far as the heavy research: we're thinking to do the background research on the cartoon and see how the pertains to what is being said and what is actually true about the cartoon (again think truth vs truthiness). Some ideas I had for the cartoons include:
The religious ones (especially the first one): Look up the fight between different Christian sects pertaining to same-sex marriage. Go onto the church websites and look for the doctrinal belief on same sex marriage. Then look up any news articles you might find pertaining to this topic. And also look up on Colbertnation.com and thedailyshow.com and any other news sources to see what clips you can find.

By doing this with all the cartoons I think we will get a wide arrange of information about how media portrays same-sex marriage through cartoons and news articles.

For Thursday's meeting:
Steve: would it be alright if you research the first cartoon?
Laura: research the second and last cartoons
Braden: the 3rd and 4th cartoons (we kinda talked about the 4th one so you have an idea where to go with it)

I think Steve's will require more work than the others, that is why he only has one.

Come prepared with url's and ideas, in fact, put your findings as a new post on the blog so that way it will count as a "journal entry" and we'll all know where to find it and be able to access it easily during the meeting tomorrow when we start to put the powerpoint together. I'll also come prepared tomorrow with the cartoons on pages and in the binder and we'll quickly go over the coding sheets before we put those in the binder.


Sorry, I know this was a long post but I feel like we got a lot accomplished today by discussing different ideas for the project. If you have any problems, just let me know!

Thanks guys!
-Laura