Shaiyan Ahmed Shaikh
Proposed Title of Project:
Censorship
Broad outline of your project / What is the purpose of the project?:
This project will explore all aspects of censorship. This includes a range from types of media such as games and movies to even bigger scales such as filtering news for a certain country. The ideas will cover more serious tones such as controlled viewing of certain information nation wide, to the more common aspect of age ratings and target audiences in media. The project will show the evolution of censorship and its history, moving onto how it has changed and finishing with the status of censorship today. The main purpose in mind is displaying the theory and thought process put into censoring different things and the effects on the people who issue it and also the people who are given it. (More ideas later in the project).
What do you expect to have completed by the end of the project?:
The primary form of the project will be a research essay.
What resources will you need?:
-Internet archives and pages.
-First party interview candidates.
-Games and movies in my possession.
-Microsoft Word
What study skills will you use to complete the project? What other skills will you have to learn/develop so that you can complete the project?
Extensive research and information only available from people who experienced it first hand, and my own personal background skills in writing and sorting information.
Which area of interaction will it focus on? /Why is this area fundamental to your project?/How will you explore the area of interaction within the project?:
Currently the two areas of interaction I am looking at are human ingenuity and social education.
Human ingenuity because it is something artificially made humans and acts as a brace on different media, and social education because for specific groups in certain environments the education and teachings may differ greatly to do with what is censored and not. Additionally the approaches to learning component will be covered during the making of the project.
How will you display the project at the personal project exhibition?:
I already have a vague image of what my exhibition part will look like. At this moment, I believe that I will have my laptop playing a compilation of video showcasing the nature of censored television from some countries I will discuss. I am undecided if I will recreate some of these clips by myself. Moreover, I will give viewers a short oral presentation on the facts and ideas I have researched with the aid of a small flip-chart with a collection of images I have chosen within. Behind me I will have various posters and items representing the diverse aspects of censorship.
