choose to produce a creative youth media project that challenges problematic or limited
representations and discourses of youth. The goal is for you to incorporate what you have learned so that
the project expands our understandings of youth and adds value to the teen media industry. As part of
the creative project, you will also write a brief analysis of your project that explicitly explains how it
exemplifies a topic from the course and how it challenges problematic representations of youth.
In other words, you must be able to clearly articulate how your project adds value to the industry of teen
media and how it is informed by the concepts from the class.
Suggested ideas for projects:
Create a movie trailer for a youth-centric film that challenges problematic representations of youth
or represents a marginalized perspective, identity, or population
Write a pilot or pitch for a youth television show that challenges problematic representations of
youth or represents a marginalized perspective, identity, or population
Remake: pitch a film, series, or create a trailer that remakes a film or series in a new way to include
different perspectives, discourses, identities, etc.
Create a youth-targeted app that is relevant to todays generation of young people and their media
practices
Create a website for youth that is relevant to the current generation and their media
practices can be creative, informative, interactive, educational, etc.
Make a short documentary, biopic, or video essay about a particular aspect of youth media culture
can be historical, contemporary, industry-related, cultural, etc.
Collaborate with youth on a media project could be a video, digital storytelling, podcast, etc.
Produce a podcast or audio piece about a theme of youth media or youth culture.
Other creative ideas are encouraged so long as they are related to an aspect of youth media
(industry, representations, production, meaning-making, etc.).
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