Monday, November 18, 2019

memes after


While the presentation did not go as well as myself and the rest of my group had hoped but we did get a pass, and it went so much better than my last one, as this time my group which was made up of myself, Bernard Mac Donagh, Aleksander Smyczynski and Godwill Ndifor, actually used power point and slides to show the project we did for this  culture assignment and unlike our last assignment we didn't split the work. We all made a meme and we all did our own research on all the different type of meme and their history. We combined our efforts and attempted to simplify it for the presentation. However, the lecturer observed that our slides for the presentation were a little too wordy, and that we should simplify it with bullet points next time. We also had a problem with the audio so we couldn't show the videos that we had linked to our project. The material for the research was not difficult to find except for when it came to the African memes, so we decided to change it to memes about Area 51 instead or, more accurately, the storming of Area 51 meme and even then these memes were mostly about how it was going to fail miserably.  This material was much easier to find, and we learned a lot about Area 51 for example it was built during the cold war but it was not until 2013 that it  officially a base became for the CIA.  Also while we were researching the slice of life memes ended up becoming memes about society and about social outcasts in general. 

We also had to read from the slides we made a few times because we had  forgotten what we had to say, we  didn’t have that much time to prepare our work because we thought we would be doing our presentation on Thursday, but we had to do it during are Monday lab so we didn’t get much time to practice and rehearse what to say. But, like before, I hope we will learn from the mistakes we made in this project and the freed back we were given will be invaluable for any future projects. But all in all, this was an interesting project and I learnt a lot about memes and their complex past and history apparently, they have been around since 79 AD during the time of the ancient Roman empire. 

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