Despite the fact it was post-Ball and highly amusing, this week's mentor group tutorial was pretty helpful. Mostly it was just a case of carrying on with what I'm doing but taking things further, so I need to start turning my drawings into models and working out how to implement then within debate. I like the idea of using the debating society as a platform on which I can experiment with various ideas in an attempt to affect the debate. I asked Matt about my context report as well, but he said I shouldn't really be worrying about what I'm doing because there is loads to write about. Along with a tutorial with Sean, that helped me sort a few things out. I'd been uneasy about the outline I gave in and I realised that it was for good reason as I wasn't really hitting any of the right points with it.
Now I'm a bit more focused and I'm working on planning and writing parts of it so I can give in a version of it by the first week of the holidays. Sean basically gave me a load of examples of books and also how politicians have been managed like Harold Wilson being given a pipe so his hand gestures look less aggressive and more thoughtful. He also encouraged me to look into mental manipulation, brainwashing, spin doctors etc. My project is exploding out at the moment, but the areas that open up to me, the more engaged I'm becoming with it. I have a lot to do but it's good because it's all things that I'm really interested.
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