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As a consequence of the wrong matching, sometimes the effect wasn’t so far from the original
one, other times the contrast between the content of the picture and the frame was too striking!
Then, after collecting my colleagues’ impressions, I asked them to watch without paying attention
to the audio and to subtitles a short spot with the title “My president”.
This spot was made in 2009, but it was proposed again on the social networks during 2016 USA
Campaign for the election of the new president.
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We watched it once and we tried to imagine the content of the spot and why the director could
choose this actor…who he could represent?!
Then I provided the Italian translation for all the participants.
Understanding the text of the speech, we agreed about that, even if expressed by a colloquial and
vulgar register, its content wasn’t so bad: “The president of a Nation should be a common
man/woman”.
But at the end of the video, there’s an evident charge: “Always a thief and never caught!”
So we discussed about the idea of democracy connected with a concept on fashion: “what is
politically correct?”.
So we tried to find a common answer.
Obviously Democracy means freedom to express oneself, but the actor’s final assertion can be
considered neither respectful for those involved in politics nor politically correct.
Then I split the participants in 5 groups and asked them to realize an activity whose aim was to
share opinions about fixed topics and to find out a common line.
In a big poster each member of the group had to write something about these topics:
1° Istituto di Istruzione superiore “Archimede” di Rosolini Trainer: Maria Celauro