Closing

Finding artifacts were much more difficult that I had anticipated. To be completely honest evidence of that is that I did not officially start my portfolio until midnight (I am a procrastinator) and I am not finishing until most likely twenty minutes from now which will be ten am. I had been keeping a word document with concepts I wanted to use and a couple of artifact ideas but I did not anticipate it being this difficult to come up with some of them.
I ended up using youtube much more than I had originally anticipated which was a pleasant surprise given the difficulty I had finding enough artifacts in other places. There were two major thing that I used that I had not even though about until I started looking around. The first one was that I used a couple of commercials. I realized that commercials are a great example of women being objectified and used through the media. I watched so many commercials on you tube, some of which were banned and I could not believe some of the things they showed but it was great to be able to use some of the examples they gave me. The next one was I took advantage of interviews I found. I also watched a good number of these and I think I only used one, but it was one of my favorite artifacts I found. It was Jenna Fischer who plays Pam on the office talking about how she is motivated by how Britney Spears looks because she wants to look more like her.
I used clips from the TV show friends for some of the relationship concepts that I wanted to use. Friends had great examples and surprisingly a lot great clips on you tube that I was able to use. I also used an episode from the show Lie to me, which was great because that is one of my new favorite shows and I was able to recall it quickly. I feel like I focused mostly on gender communication in relationships mostly because having had personal experience with that they were the most enjoyable concepts to find artifacts for.
One of the more difficult artifacts for me to come up with that I thought would have been so easy were movies. I could not for the life of me think of any movies to go with some of the concepts I was trying to complete. There are just so many movies that I could not think specific examples so I only used I think two movies.
The most surprising artifact that I used was my very last one and it was a clip from the women’s talk show the view. It was a clip where they got into a huge argument and I decided to analyze it and it was a fun artifact to use. I have no clue how I managed to come across an episode of the view but I am glad I did.

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