For project 3 I will be working by myself and have decided to make a collage based on project 2. For my collage I will be focusing on Christine Nangle which was the woman in red I wrote about. I want to be able to represent her career and life as well as the struggles she faced and continues to face because of her choice of career. Christine Nangle is a improv writer who has worked in many popular American shows like the Simpsons. While researching the gender disparity on wikipedia and Nangle, I noticed that the perception of female comedians and women in improv is negative and women who chose to work in those particular careers are heavily discriminated. Many people may believe that since we live in modernity concerns like these have already been eliminated, but they are still very present and they impact female comedians/writers greatly. I want to be able to create like a triptych collage where Nangle’s early life and start of career is depicted on one side and the other side depicts all her current accomplishments and works. The middle would depict all the struggles she faced through the course of her younger years and presently in order to become the successful improv producer/writer she is. The reason I decided to create a collage is because I like visual arts and wanted to try out creating a collage online which I have never done. In previous classes, I have tried out podcasts and visual essays and now I want to try something new that will allow me to explore my creativity.
I believe that the change in medium will represent the message of my essay very well. However unlike in my paper, I won’t be focusing just on Nangle’s lack of representation on Wikipedia; instead, I’ll include that in my collage as an additional aspect of the bigger issue. I feel like the most difficult part will probably be sourcing new material for my collage. I will be using images for the most part and finding information about Christine Nangle’s personal life is already really difficult so there probably won’t be many images of her. However, I will be finding images of individual aspects of her life in order to represent her. Like an image of the school she attended when she was younger or an image of an episode she worked on. I already have a general gist of my outline and cropping images is what seems to be the biggest problem. I know how to do collages by hand and not online, but I want to try to make one online since Nangle’s isn’t a very known person and finding newspapers or magazines she may be in would be extremely difficult. I will be getting an editing app in order to properly crop the images I find and place them how I like. I will be using Canva as my primary tool for creating the collage.
Really interesting idea of making a collage on Christine Nangle and quite intriguing separation of her life into Starting career, struggles, and end of carrer.
This is really interesting and I like your ideas on how you will talk about Christine Nangle and her struggles In her life.
I think making a collage would be cool and really interesting. You seem to have a clear idea about what you will be doing and I think that it’s a good way to remix project 2.
This seems like a good idea. I like how you show Christine Nangle and what she is going through.
I also decided to do a collage! I completely agree on focusing more on the lives and struggles of women in red, not just their lack of representation, but what their true message and story is itself!