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The woman conceals her expression by wearing sunglasses on her face to mask her face and expression. The woman has intentions of trying to project a character based on her consumer goods such as the dress, furniture, sunglasses, heels, and golf club which are all luxurious products that help to build her image as a wealthy mistress. This helps to build the narrative and theme Greenfield presents in Generation Wealth of individuals who wish to be an appeal to others with the extent of their wealth and class of consumer goods. This is illustrated by how the woman in the image is defined and characterized so much by the goods and luxury around her and little can be gained from her true human character.

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Discuss the use of color. What do the colors suggest or connote?

In the image, the colors of gold and white represent and may connote that the woman is of high social class. It may also represent conspicuous consumption as the colors can be associated with great wealth.

Who is in the image? That is, who is/are the subject(s)? What can you say about the subject(s) and how do you know? Consider things such as posture/pose, gaze, gesture, and  clothing

In the image, a woman in a black dress is about to swing her club in a room filed with luxurious items. This may represent carelessness because this is not normal for anyone of the middle social class to do. This can be linked to how the rich can replace any broken items simply because they have the money and resources to do so. This can also represent the social branding of how the rich can live and how it shows only the aspects of it rather than showing the values and discipline which can lead to a more proper kind of being rich.

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IB English A: Language & Literature: A Language for Discussing Photography

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Paper 1 will contain multimodal texts. It"s entirely possible that Paper 1 will contain texts that are only visual. Some of these visual texts are likely to be photographs. Where this is the case, HL students must write about such texts; they have no choice.

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Lauren Greenfield Iris Nights: Generation Wealth

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1. Organization of Notes:
-Is her Oral presentation "word-for-word" of her notes/outline? Is she using her notes like a "script"?
She uses her notes like an outline. Her notes provides key points she wishes to discuss in a particular order then she fills in and connects the gaps between each keyword and point.

-If her Oral presentation is not a "script", then HOW does she organize it?
She organizes her notes in the order she wishes to present it. She follows it like a script where the arrangement written down is the same as how she arranges her oral argument but as outline and key points instead of word-for-word.

Based upon your analysis from the other three panels, your group must choose ONE of the 7 IO Model Outline Types that you think best fits the student exemplar IO.

Outline #2 –Start broad and then zoom in

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1. Consider the way the image is framed (what is in/kept out of the image?); the lighting; the camera’s vantage point; and the approximate focal length of the lens: How do these things contribute to the construction of the image?

-  Direct approach involves the photographer going close or zooming into the subject and taking the photo at eye-level, without any distortions and effects. This form of image capturing is clearly not used as the image was taken at a slightly higher angle while also clearly showing the background in order to convey the photographers message of conspicuous consumption and consumerism.

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1. Consider the way the image is framed (what is in/kept out of the image?); the lighting; the camera’s vantage point; and the approximate focal length of the lens: How do these things contribute to the construction of the image?
- Lighting contributes to the concept of conspicuous consumption by exaggerating the opulence of the room and garish quality of the rich. Lighting on gold ornaments produces the lightest value in the image. Direct lighting also spotlights the subject in the image, which is the woman swinging a golf club, and the reflected light from the background, including gold furnitures. Overall, the tone and value are representational elements that emphasizes the author's intention of judging the rich in criticizing manner.

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3. HOW does the student Describe the image in her IO?
-2 shot, long shot, Dutch tilt,
camera angles, framing, mentions that the image shows flamboyant wealth and social status, family is sad/miserable.

Describe the image. What does it look like? Who is in the image? That is, who is/are the subject(s)? What can you say about the subject(s) and how do you know? Consider things such as posture/pose, gaze, gesture, and clothing.  Please refer to the LIST of Image Analysis Questions to guide you.
-In the image there are 2 people in the photo, a mother and a child that are not happy. they seem miserable due to the bountifulness of the family. it seems that since they are depressed when there are lots of items, it makes the family show that they are depressed and the reason for it is hard to find for them since they have everything (generally speaking). the mood of the photo makes the viewers think again that money is not everything.

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What does Lauren Greenfield say her project, ‘Generation Wealth’, is about?

She said Generation Wealth is certainly not about the actual wealth, but it's about the influence of affluence. The project is about our aspiration to wealth, which has connections to the way we interpret the notions of American dream and contagious virus that is addictive culture of consumerism.

Greenfield suggests that she has been studying and photographing wealthy people for over 25 years. In that time, what cultural changes has she identified? Although you almost certainly haven’t yet been alive for 25 years, to what extent do Greenfield’s observations correspond with your own ideas about contemporary culture?

Culture has gone from Protestant ethics, value of hard work, and discipline to a culture of prized bling, celebrity, and narcissism. As more time passed, belief has turned into conspicuous tools and brandings overwhelmed the concept of currency and value. Significantly, Greenfield mentioned that "wealth has never been so concentrated in a small group of population than ever." Consequently, commercial rituals had become part and parcel of coming-of-age, leading even young to seek for opportunities to put themselves on the trend.

Greenfield uses a few possibly difficult expressions during her talk. What does she mean when she refers to ‘the Protestant ethic’, ‘precocious sexualization’, and ‘commercial rituals’

Protestant ethic is a color/characteristics of a culture that values hard work and ethics. This was pervading in the society until the rise of materialism.

Precocious sexualization means the phenomenon of treating girls as women, exaggerating their physical attributes. This is one of the ramification of commercialization where everything is branded.

Commercial rituals means the modern trend of merchandizing products and branding the properties. This has rooted from the companies' commercialization techniques, which led to the individual's behavior of conspicuous consumption.

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(For Wednesday, August 12)
Today we will look at the following Photography concepts and HOW they apply to our practice image from Greenfield's "Generation Wealth":
a.Lighting, Focus, Representational, Expressive, Direct Approach
b. Your Group's task is to justify HOW your assigned Photography concept reflects ONE of the following Global Issues foci concerning Inequality:
“consumer goods, social branding, global branding, social class, conspicuous consumption, The Protestant Ethic, commercial rituals".

Your Group MUST use at LEAST TWO of The questions here to help your thinking, planning and presentation of the image analysis.
Review the vocabulary of photography HERE.

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IO Gatsby Extract: Which passages from this extract does the student specifically mention in her IO? 

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IO Gatsby Extract: Which passages from this extract does the student specifically mention in her IO? 

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EXIT Ticket: Thursday, 8-6 at 3:30-HOW are these passages discussed or analyzed in the IO Student Notes?

-How is the Global Issue she identifies  explored through the passages chosen?

-How is the Concept she identifies explored through the passages chosen?

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How does the student Tie in The Concepts of Identity & transformation ?
Showed concepts of identity through Gatsby and the 2 women as some people that are overwhelmingly rich, and the concept of transformation was tied in through the change of Gatsby's life (about his history)

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Working with Lauren Greenfield's Photographs (from Generation Wealth).

What does Lauren Greenfield say her project, ‘Generation Wealth’, is about? (Josh)

“I've been a photographer for 25 years focused on the excesses of our culture. I noticed no matter how much people have, they still want more. I realized wealth was much more than money. it was whatever gave us value.” She later states that the project Generation Wealth is “The visual history of our growing obsession with wealth”

Greenfield suggests that she has been studying and photographing wealthy people for over 25 years. In that time, what cultural changes has she identified? Although you almost certainly haven’t yet been alive for 25 years, to what extent do Greenfield’s observations correspond with your own ideas about contemporary culture? (Dorothy)

She identifies that the standard of wealth changes as generation passes which is linked to her photography. One example is the french aristocrats, during the past centuries people were classified as upper, lower, and middle class. For example, they did not divide the classes by how much wealth one family has accumulated; Instead, they were classified by blood-line.  Currently, however, social class is defined by the net worth of an individual or a family.
Another example of cultural changes is the rise of consumer goods and global branding; In the past, global branding was underdeveloped, but the global branding has influenced many aspects of culture to a point that “brand = social class” and brand has become another medium of expressing wealth.
Greenfield’s observation corresponds to my idea on how teenagers are influenced by the media which leads them to be spoiled and how teenagers are ruined by the trend set by celebrities due to their lavish lifestyle.

Greenfield uses a few possibly difficult expressions during her talk. What does she mean when she refers to ‘the Protestant ethic’, ‘precocious sexualization’, and ‘commercial rituals’? (Ikaia)

The ‘Protestant ethic’ Greenfield talks about was describing the culture prescribed by the American Dream and capitalism of hard work, thrift, and efficiency in worldly and materialistic endeavors were markers of spiritual goodness and salvation as was deemed by the ideas of Protestantism in the 20th century and described by Max Weber’s “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.” She talks about how the purity of the American Dream’s ideals that were rooted in the Protestant ethic were corrupted as a culture who valued the pursuit of wealth no matter what the cost. When Greenfield uses ‘precocious sexualization’ it means the early development of provocative behaviour in, particularly, young girls who were further sexualized not only in their image but also their behaviours and activities where Greenfield describes games like dress-up were being sexualized in the culture of wealth. The term commercial ritual is used to describe a Quinceanera, which is a very significant cultural marker and tradition in a girl’s life in Latino culture has been co-opted and commercialized to be a premier of conspicuous consumption instead of cultural ritual.

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IO Generation Wealth Extract: HOW does the student Describe the image in her IO? 

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IO Generation Wealth Extract: HOW does the student Describe the image in her IO? 

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EXIT Ticket: Thursday, 8-6 at 3:30PM

-Please refer to the LIST of Image Analysis Questions to guide you.

-Choose ONLY those questions that you think best reflect the student's analysis in he Oral Presentation.

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Group 4: IO Generation Wealth Extract: HOW does the student Describe the image in her IO? 

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Group 4: IO Generation Wealth Extract: HOW does the student Describe the image in her IO? 

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(Lea, Mark, Kevin) - Lea

Choose ONLY those questions that you think best reflect the student's analysis in he Oral Presentation.

- Discuss the use of colour. What do the colours suggest or connote?
- Who is in the image? That is, who is/are the subject(s)? What can you say about the subject(s) and how do you know? Consider things such as posture/pose, gaze, gesture, and clothing.

At the beginning of the explanation, she highlights the purpose of the photographer which is to exaggerate the American dream. She explains about people in the picture, which are mom and daughter and mentions that they doesn't seems to be happy. Moreover, the materialism seems to make them miserable. Most subjects are showing wealth and the paradox encourages to reflect the point of extreme wealth. Furthermore, she mentions about the clothes of mother and daughter and discuss about the differences between them. Mom is wearing expensive and colourful clothes, whereas, daughter isn't colourful. In addition, colour blue of mom is similar to the Gatsby's car which is garish. The garishness of the car and the clothes highlights the wealthiness of them.

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1. Is her Oral presentation "word-for-word" of her notes/outline? Is she using her notes like a "script"?
> Her notes serve as the focal points and arguments that she unpacks in the order they are written.

2.  -If her Oral presentation is not a "script", then HOW does she organize it?
>  She organized it considering the flow that she wants in her IO. She first introduce what is it all about, and talks about the two literary works and figures and representations of each, which their significance is emphasized by the questions that she would like to answer in her IO. Lastly, she combines them to make connection on the same idea, which is the inequality.

3. IO MODEL Outlines: Types 1-7

Based upon your analysis from the other three panels, your group must choose ONE of the 7 IO Model Outline Types that you think best fits the student exemplar IO.

Outline 7 - All one, then all the other with two introductions
> She starts off by introducing the global issue of inequality and how it is showed in the great Gatsby. She narrows the use of language and imagery from the overarching themes to the characteristics that the characters display.
>  She then introduces the second text, which is a non-literary work, that she clearly tries to make obvious that it is an different text while also making connections through how the two authors tried to show inequality.

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Working with Lauren Greenfield's Photographs (from Generation Wealth).

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Working with Lauren Greenfield's Photographs (from Generation Wealth).

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(For Wednesday, August 12)
-with your same Group, you will now access the ThinkIB page to work more on the analysis of Greenfield's photos
-Watch the following 19-minute lecture  in which the photographer and filmmaker discusses her career and her project ‘Generation Wealth’. As you watch, make notes, and try to answer the following questions:

Questions

What does Lauren Greenfield say her project, ‘Generation Wealth’, is about?

Greenfield suggests that she has been studying and photographing wealthy people for over 25 years. In that time, what cultural changes has she identified? Although you almost certainly haven’t yet been alive for 25 years, to what extent do Greenfield’s observations correspond with your own ideas about contemporary cultural?

Greenfield uses a few possibly difficult expressions during her talk. What does she mean when she refers to ‘the Protestant ethic’, ‘precocious sexualization’, and ‘commercial rituals’?

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Group 4: IO Student Notes/Outline Plan:  

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(Lea, Mark, Kevin) - Mark

-Is her Oral presentation "word-for-word" of her notes/outline? Is she using her notes like a "script"?
Her Oral presentation is not word for word of her notes. Instead, she uses her notes to outline some important points. Then, she discusses further about the points.

-If her Oral presentation is not a "script", then HOW does she organize it?
She organizes her note by introduction, analysis of literary work, analysis of non-literary work, analysis of both works, and a conclusion.

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on1. IO Student Notes/Outline Plan (Miggy)

-Is her Oral presentation "word-for-word" of her notes/outline? Is she using her notes like a "script"?
- Her oral presentation is not "word-for-word" of her outline. She uses her outline/notes notes as a summary of the points she wants to make. From there it helps her stay on track and organized as she expounds on.
-If her Oral presentation is not a "script", then HOW does she organize it?

2. IO Gatsby Extract: Which passages from this extract does the student specifically mention in her IO? (Miggy)

-HOW are these passages discussed or analyzed in the IO Student Notes?

-How is the Global Issue she identifies  explored through the passages chosen?

-How is the Concept she identifies explored through the passages chosen?

3. IO Generation Wealth Extract: HOW does the student Describe the image in her IO? (Justin)

She describes the image as a two shot taken at a eye level where
a mother and their daughter are placed in the foreground of the image in their Moscow apartment. She describes how the conspicuous  spending and their materialism seems to have made them unhappy and indifferent.

-Please refer to the LIST of Image Analysis Questions to guide you.

-Choose ONLY those questions that you think best reflect the student's analysis in he Oral Presentation.

4. IO Generation Wealth Extract: HOW does the student Describe the image in her IO?

-Please refer to the LIST of Image Analysis Questions to guide you.

-Choose ONLY those questions that you think best reflect the student's analysis in he Oral Presentation.
5. IO MODEL Outlines: Types 1-7

Based upon your analysis from the other three panels, your group must choose ONE of the 7 IO Model Outline Types that you think best fits the student exemplar IO.

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What does Lauren Greenfield say her project, ‘Generation Wealth’, is about?

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Greenfield suggests that she has been studying and photographing wealthy people for over 25 years. In that time, what cultural changes has she identified? Although you almost certainly haven’t yet been alive for 25 years, to what extent do Greenfield’s observations correspond with your own ideas about contemporary cultural?

"fake it till you make it" would be the best quote to describe the change in culture that she has identified wherein the american dream, which was once an ideal by which equality of opportunity is available to any American, now focuses more on wealth, more specifically, looking wealthy and how it centers around consumerism.

Greenfield uses a few possibly difficult expressions during her talk. What does she mean when she refers to ‘the Protestant ethic’, ‘precocious sexualization’, and ‘commercial rituals’?

Protestant ethic, in terms of the generation wealth,  would be  the value attached to hard work.

Precocious sexualization is the development, or the enforcement, of sexual traits at a relatively young age.

Commercial rituals is a sequence of activities done in order to sell you on a product wherein nowadays has led to conspicuous consumption and  the rise of consumerism. Companies give it's customers an image, which in most cases would be the that their brand will fulfill their ideals of the american  dream and make themselves look wealthy.

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2. Which passages from this extract does the student specifically mention in her IO?

HOW are these passages discussed or analyzed in the IO Student Notes?
-  it discussed and analyzed by  putting points and put key words about the great gatsby and global issues.

How is the Global Issue she identifies  explored through the passages chosen?
- it is explored by how Gatsby described his car and with Gatsby’s behavior she was able to link it with the idea of conspicuous consumption, which relates with global issue of inequality.

How is the Concept she identifies explored through the passages chosen?
-  it is explored through American dream.

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4. IO Generation Wealth Extract: HOW does the student Describe the image in her IO?
-Please refer to the LIST of Image Analysis Questions to guide you.
- Guiding questions:

Describe the image. What does it look like?

Who is in the image? That is, who is/are the subject(s)? What can you say about the subject(s) and how do you know? Consider things such as posture/pose, gaze, gesture, and clothing.

What story did the photographer intend do you think? What emotional response did she intend to provoke? What do you see, think, and feel? To what extent does your own sense of the image correspond with the photographer’s intentions?

- She focuses on the symbolism of elements in the image, such as the subjects drawn and the framing technique. Then, she explains how individual elements, overall, indicate the message: incongruity of affluence and insipid reality. One main point she mentioned about the image was about its tone and mood. She analyzed that the gaze reveals the mood of the image as quite unsettling, regarding the indifference pictured between the figures. This fact connects well with her criticizing manner when she described the image. Furthermore, the image delivers a sense of unhappiness and even an exasperation from the ostentatious and inhumane behaviors shown.

-Choose ONLY those questions that you think best reflect the student's analysis in he Oral Presentation.

Describe the image. What does it look like?

Who is in the image? That is, who is/are the subject(s)? What can you say about the subject(s) and how do you know? Consider things such as posture/pose, gaze, gesture, and clothing.

Her points seem to be built upon questions that ask for technical aspects of the analysis, rather than subjective perspectives of the reader and the author.

5. IO MODEL Outlines: Types 1-7

Based upon your analysis from the other three panels, your group must choose ONE of the 7 IO Model Outline Types that you think best fits the student exemplar IO.

Type 2.
- She starts by introducing the inequality she had chosen; after than, she narrows it down to each of the two sources provided.
- She ties up her IO with a closed-end conclusion, which really reflects the process of sieving the topic down to a narrow yet profound analysis.

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IO Generation Wealth Extract: HOW does the student Describe the image in her IO? 

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EXIT Ticket: Thursday, 8-6 at 3:30PM

-Please refer to the LIST of Image Analysis Questions to guide you.

-Choose ONLY those questions that you think best reflect the student's analysis in he Oral Presentation.

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EXIT Ticket: Thursday, 8-6 at 3:30PM

Based upon your analysis from the other three panels, your group must choose ONE of the 7 IO Model Outline Types that you think best fits the student exemplar IO.

Make sure your group's explanation is based upon your analysis drawn from the other three panels.

Please review all 7 of the IO Outline Models here.