Type 02 with a Vengeance.

This blog is supposed to be helpful to me by getting my creative wheels turning. So I'm going March Madness! A design-a-day challenge, but sensible enough that I'll actually do it. From charts to lists to graphics, I will open this blog everyday until Easter and post something. As a precursor, I will be in Paris a few days so those may be list days. Who knows. I'll do something.
For today, I am working on a motion graphics project so I'm posting my research. Mandatory for my grade but I'm going to count it. 

_ Who is speaking? Gloria Steinem

_ Why was/is the speech important to society? It outlined and spotlighted the feminist movement.

_ Why do you feel it is important or interesting? I'm taking a women's studies class so I've been getting really into the whole feminist movement. So many people think that it's about making men and women equal, but its so much more. The need to eliminate segregation and discrimination is still so prevalent. We need equal humans that get what they deserve.  Not people getting things because they have a certain sex, race, gender, class, etc.

_ What is the emotion, mood, tone, personality, feeling of the speech? I think it has an almost nurturing quality to it. She's peacefully explaining the meaning of the movement so that you understand it and aren't terrified of it.

_ What is intonation, emphasis, what is loud, stressed, or soft. Where are there pauses? She emphasizes several points. The first part is that it isn't simple. She goes on to explain why there are social groups, states that it needs to be fixed, then ends with a statement to try to bring understanding to those that are scared or the word feminism.

_ What do you FEEL should be loud or soft, long pause or rushed? I think she did a wonderful job placing emphasis. I may have emphasized more on the "system still depends", but I also have a rather overbearing, in-your-face speech style. 

_ Is there a call to action? When listening to it what are key/emphasized words? I see a call to action. Most would not. The call to action is hidden in the last two sentences. She's saying this is what you want so work for it!

_ How does it make you feel? Inspired, disgusted and motivated.

_ How do imagine that the audience felt? Empowered, motivated, and spirited.


_ Could there be another interpretation of the speech? It could be taken as a stab at society. It is, but someone may not pick up on the call to action.

_ Write/find a short bio, of the person giving the speech. Gloria Steinem is a writer, lecturer, editor, and feminist activist. She travels in this and other countries as an organizer and lecturer and is a frequent media spokeswoman on issues of equality. She is particularly interested in the shared origins of sex and race caste systems, gender roles and child abuse as roots of violence, non-violent conflict resolution, the cultures of indigenous peoples, and organizing across boundaries for peace and justice. She now lives in New York City, and is currently at work on Road to the Heart: America As if Everyone Mattered, a book about her more than thirty years on the road as a feminist organizer

This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race, because they are easy, visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups, and into the cheap labor on which this system still depends. We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen, or those earned. We are really talking about humanism.