Triple - Devised Unit (LR) - Blog 3 - 14/09/15

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Today in our Triple lesson, we printed off images of off a news website of the chaos which encapsulated London during the 2012 riots. Our job was to analyse these images and draw key ideas and themes from them and observe the message they try to put across. The rest of the lesson was very much discussion based.

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The first image shows a young man in a tracksuit walking confidently through the streets of London with the burning carcass of a car in the background and innocent bystanders. The keywords I drew from this were tracksuit, chav, bandana, fire embodies chaos, standing out from the crowd behind, empowered, no fear, poor.



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The second image shows a bus ablaze in the center of an empty street. The keywords I drew from this were burning bus, high repair costs, high transport costs result in inferno, flames, contrast to the darkness around it symbolising a spark of rebellion, empty street, lonely.

The third image was a women jumping from the window of her second story flat into a crowd of people prepared to catch with flames in the background. The keywords I drew from this were rescue, blazing pyro silhouettes the innocent, fear leads to poor desperate choices, hope, trust, trapped, emotional scars.



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The final image a group of working-class rioters walking together looking rather intimidating with flames and smoke roaring up behind them. The keywords I drew from this were unity, flames, represent power and chaos, intimidating, peer pressure, band-wagoning.