FACT, FAKE OR FICTION?

Defining our reality in an age of unlimited media

SODA Level 4 students, working in teams from across our eight media programmes, were tasked with working together to conceptualise a media experience that explores the theme of “Fact, Fake or Fiction?”.

The following excerpts are works in progress from their projects.

Students are supported by academic staff from across SODA programmes: Ursula Ackah, Olugbenga Ajayi, David Bewick, Adam Cain, Liv Campion, Rianon Francis, Chris Gladwin, Antony Hall, Babar Hussain, Alan Jones, Helen McGhie, Shō Ogden, Sara Nesteruk, Adinda van’t Klooster, Tristan Poyser, Mark Porter, Merike van de Vijver, Daniel Moss, Richard Higginbottom, Neil Bruce, Babar Suleman, Emer Crawford-Thomson, David Jackson, Adam Cooke, Rob Potts, Lois Macdonald.

Alien with an Insta

Teodore Lee, Tilia Longcake, Sammy Fischer

Our project focuses around the narrative of Aliens trying to get into contact with the human species to warn them of various dangers (climate change, corrupt forces damaging relations between countries, forces working against building a fair and happy world, etc), but using various methods to do so. One of which is social media- we will have works that depict what aliens might theoretically post to communicate messages to earth, but also works based on how humans might react (conspiracy, discussion, scepticism, indifference). The works will be a mix of entertaining (Alien trying to communicate that a new popular politician has horrific views through a mirror selfie), disheartening ("What do you mean no one listened to the warning we gave on climate change when we told the CEOs of gas companies!"), or interesting, like a soundscape of what the Alien's UFO would sound like.

CONCEPT SKETCHES