Individual Project Proposal

Subject/Focus: I am doing my creative project on celebrity blogs and their effect on the way people spend their time on the internet. From working at US Weekly this past summer I spent a considerable amount of time on blogs catered toward the gossip and scandal of celebrities. I always found these blogs outrageous and now having been in this class I find them an interesting aspect of digital literacy. Some of the blogs that are out there already are very outrageous and some are milder. For example, Perezhilton.com is very shocking and blunt, while blogs like JustJared.com simply pose the facts about celebrity gossip. I want the “mock” celebrity blog that I create to fit somewhere in the middle. At first I wanted to make it so ridiculous that it would almost be unreadable, but after researching what blogs are already out there I saw that you couldn’t get more shocking than Perezhilton.com. So I then decided to create a blog that is witty, catchy, still shocking, but also a little classier than some others. This way I could still poke fun at the notion of celebrity blogs, but also not go to far with it as so it looks tacky. But perhaps tacky is the way to go? I am still open to suggestions on this detail of the project.

Technology Specifications:Blogger.com, imovie, Adobe Photoshop

Task Breakdown:
Get caught up with major celebrity gossip (that worth covering and information that will surely attract bloggers)
Visit other celebrity blog sites and compare/learn
Select images or movie clips to blog
Upload images or movie clips to blog
Work with images and or movie clips
Comment and “blog” these situations that arise from celebrity photos, clips, and anything else readily available.
Edit and work with blog
Polish final results
Develop the best way to present the project

Timeline:
Proposal completed 3.13.08
First draft completed 3.21.08 Final draft completed 3.28.08
Final project due 4.1.08