Monday, 7 March 2016

OUIL505 - Themes to explore? - Excessiveness

Something that I noticed when looking at the U.S election is the excessiveness of it all, especially when you compare it to the english election. You can see it just by watching the Fox news coverage of the election, why does it need all of these pop ups??? 'countdown to Nevada', it's just overly elaborate and not really necessary. 



Again you can see this when they have the debate, why do they have a wembley sized audience and Xfactor style judge panel like they're about to perform in a boy band and stand off their stalls and sing 'you raise me up'


U.S election debate

UK election debate

Especially when you compare the two televised elections, it's clear to see how over the top the american version is - bit excessive? As this is something that I've seen that stands out a lot to me, I think it's something that I should definitely look at. Plus I think it could be something that might be fun to work with, especially with satire as I can completely enhance everything and use bright crazy colours which I enjoy doing. 

ALSO!

It's just like a massive popularity contest at school! One of the criticisms that Trump was given by another Republican candidate is that he had small hands. Is this seriously an important factor to being a leader? Trump then responds to this by saying that his hands are not small and doesn't mean that his genitals are small.. how ridiculous. It's like being in the school playground surrounded by bullies, if you're going to criticise a candidate it should be about what they stand for not for any personal reasons. This makes me feel like it's all a bit of a joke and no ones really taking this seriously. This again makes me feel like satire is perfect to show what this election is like. 



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