Tuesday, 24 January 2012

Third initial idea


The fourth idea for our ancillary products for the CD back cover was mostly linked towards hazard perception that the audience would feel very climatic and confused towards the use of the dark and mysterious colours which has built the representations and formal codes over the product. this has clearly linked to conflict and misery which has allowed us to experiment with the roller coaster effect in order to achieve high potential and allow us to create fear for the upper class citizens which builds the lower class's reputation. The contrast of black, grey, yellow and white link to masculinity and strength therefore being stereotypical of the lower class being rough and informal towards society. The use of the brick background has clearly linked towards the specific infrastructure of lower class accommodation, this therefore builds up the stereotypical image. this can also link to the uses and gratifications theory that as the audience consume the product they feel more secure that some of the lower class feel connected and related.

Thursday, 19 January 2012

Second initial idea


The second initial idea has shown a mixture of ideas between the first and second idea that the advert has used compartments of the red powerful fist, communist flag, London landscape and soviet star. These all summarise the communism and independence of Muse which has clearly linked towards our representational codes and conventions for the audience members to gain an perspective from. The communist flag and star have clearly shown political aspects in order to build freedom and free speech which has allowed the audience to become their own individual groups towards society. This has also allowed us to consider the formalities and structure of our presentation.

Tuesday, 17 January 2012

Front Cover


The initial idea is linked to the dome from Muse's resistance album cover, this shows that our group has used great ideas during the development and adaptation of media products. The space background links to the creation of the universe and human species. Particularly, the use of the dome combined with the planet earth shows and represents interconnections between our world and the abstract world allowing to build the contrast and similarities showing that Muse connects and builds relationships across different universes. The orange-yellow bridge,that moves along towards the core of the planet earth, also symbolises human's commitment and thirst over the secrets and knowledge of the universe and life. This, from the first initial idea, allows to build the human species's patriotism over Earth and with the colourful spectrum this has also shown that Earth is a mixture of normality and abnormal conventions which builds questions and confusion towards the audience members.

Friday, 13 January 2012

Initial idea for ancillary products


The first initial idea was inspired by the Resistance 3 Front cover Ps3, our group found the traditional conventions such as the iconic image of an Chimera face allowed itself to build fear and power. This allowed us to consider different iconic objects in order to show similar quality and representation to allow development of future ancillary products. This also linked with the contrast of that the Chimera and Human species conflict allows the audience to become very in timid due themselves becoming victims of the infinite conflict and battle between supremacy and recognition. The fist has allowed us to symbolise our humane strength and dignity allowing us to represent Muse as an independent and free will group that has gone past the boundaries of normal and structured society that our audience commonly lives and maintains. The background of the London landscape. London is an iconic and representation of English culture and youth allowing our group to focus and use patriotism and development to attract the target audience, this allows links to Muse as they were born in England. And finally the dome from the Muse "Resistance" album is another use of representation of evolution and natural selection that the human species is dominant and inspiring allowing us to build our ideas and thoughts to improve the structure and form of our society. The use of spectrum of colours also allow a range of emotions and links to creation and life therefore making the audience feel very interested and surprised by the atmosphere of biological and philosophical integrity.

Thursday, 12 January 2012

Media Studies update- Airflow

During our publishing of our music video, a local band that we have included in our media product entitled "airflow" have now published the music video on their website. Therefore, this shows that our music video is now becoming more prestigious and popular allowing us to expand our distribution and begin to question on the development of our products. This can also demonstrate the fact that the media product can lead towards future ideas for better and more available products. So therefore, our media product has both attracted more audience members and allowed us as an group to have more consideration and thoughts about future ideas.
This is their logo they have published on Facebook. This represents their reputation and brand as they are a local band that we have used in our music video. So therefore this can attract more individuals, groups and bands towards our music productions. 
This is also their Facebook page that they have used to publish and advertise our music video. From the number of likes, in the screenshot, this clearly shows a lot of prestige and reputation therefore developing through an alternative and specific motivation. This also allows our group to consider future conventions and different ways of media forms for the distribution of our media products. 

Summary of Audience feedback- Powerpoint presentation


This is a powerpoint presentation from slide share of the overall data of results based on our group's questionnaire and data handling form.

Magazine advert analysis

The magazine advert for green day clearly shows a lot of representation and detail. The magazine advert clearly uses a contrast of colours from red, black and white to show a variety of representational codes and conventions to convey their message.  So therefore, the colour red is used to represent green day’s revolution and independence, which clearly links to Muse’s ideology of containing freedom and anxiety for their own self-beliefs and values.  Red also clearly references the human blood therefore making it more connecting and serious towards their audience member. The white colors also symbolize innocence and being abstract towards their interest.  The representation of the hand and the heart shaped grenade symbolisms their escape from society and government. This therefore links towards green day’s independence and becoming their own character. The human hand with the heart also symbolizes biological aspects in order to connect and re establish their audience members’ relationship therefore making it more distributing. The uses of the arm also represents as an iconic and representation of Green day’s person. This therefore links to their human self-removing the heart of society. This therefore demonstrates their freedom and independence in a different alternative perspective view.  Also the magazine advert uses bold and a variety of textual sizes to enthuses their meaning for example the title “American idiot” represents their patriotic and strong ideas about their American government and society. Also the text of the band also enthuses their thoughts and values therefore showing their reputation for the audience members. This also links to David Morley’s theory of the meaning and representation of having constructed differences that are based on representational of social classes between upper and lower classes. This therefore links to muse’s digression and contrast of being the lower class against the upper class. This therefore shows that different bands have different meanings and values of being a higher social and political group.  The use of the abstract and cartoon clearly justifies the media text’s use for political social classes. Therefore this causes the audience to feel more decisive about the contrast of social classes. This can also link towards Morley’s theory of political representation and ideology.  Also the magazine advert clearly also uses horror conventions such as blood to create fear, shock factor and horror to influence the audience towards their digestion and meanings. Another aspect of the magazine advert of Green day also shapes the heart as a grenade, therefore, causing extent and reference towards army and war therefore symbolizes conflict and power. This makes green day act more for supremacy and domination over other groups that have similar purpose and go against each other. This also links towards the conflict of social classes and the ideology of Green day becoming more rebellious also iconic group of people towards against the political and stronger values. And also Green day also uses Levi Strauss’s theory of binary oppositions through a contrast of good and evil therefore between the lower and upper class also society and groups of individuals. This clearly links towards other products such as Muse’s dig pack and the script dig pack therefore showing that the groups of different bands are either controlling or going against the audience’s opinions. And finally the band magazine advert clearly uses a big iconic picture with text to show structure and form of being a representative of allowing their target audience to wards their self-values and ideas. This is due to the historical reference and conflict between the protagonist and antagonistic social classes therefore causing more development and variation of ideas and gratifications over the advantages of the imagery and iconography of the media product.

The Media product of the band Muse shows a lot of contrast and difference. The Muse magazine media product clearly uses the landscape and atmosphere of freedom and security. The use of the glass and ice clearly demonstrates Muse’s commitment and actions of being independent and free from society’s control over individuals and groups. This is also etherized by the title “Breaking through” which clearly represents Muse’s reception of being different from society’s structure and form. The use of the different shade of blues and white also symbolizes their curiosity and knowledge over the knowledge and opinions of life and evolution. The use of the bold, giant text also builds Muse’s reputation and strength over their own values and beliefs therefore making themselves more dominant and allows controlling supremacy. This can also link to other media products such as their music video entitled “Uprising” and their dig pack therefore making themselves more iconic and build their reputation in order to attract and build their audience members to influence themselves towards society. The use of the different contrast of colour and the iconography of the band Muse therefore makes it more supreme and stronger. The image also builds their freedom through the barriers and boundaries of society’s quarantine of those challenging their beliefs and values. The ice and glass cracks therefore represents the audience’s split personality and compassion therefore creating confusion which links to the audience members asking themselves ultimate questions of the identity of muse. The media product also shows interest of the theorist Levi Strauss showing binary oppositions of the contrast between social classes and good and evil. This also link towards the use of a spectrum of colours between blue, white, black and grey to show a different range of emotions and feelings in order to clearly create an atmosphere full of integrity and language. Also the media product also clearly uses strong colours tones in order to improve and create strong opinions for Muse’s message towards society and government. This also shows that Muse is adapting towards a more dependent psychological mind. The use of the information in the formation of columns clearly demonstrates structure and form therefore maintains their sanity and shows that Muse aren’t entirely different compared to regular individuals. The media product of the magazine advert of Muse also uses the tundra and transparent landscape to clearly represents a range of emotions full of memories and resemblance. Therefore, this acts like a vacuum of the audience’s innermost sanctum of thoughts of ideas. This also demonstrates their interests and represents Muse’s inquisitiveness of becoming leaders of political and academic series. The media product also resembles Muse’s conflict that from different perspective, it shows society isolating and degrading Muse’s identity and reputation. This therefore causes the shock factor and depression for the band Muse due to society becoming antagonistic against their judgmental and personal obligations. Therefore this links to Muse’s strength. The magazine text also uses the photo of the band members to build their reputation and iconic values in order to represent themselves as leaders and protagonist. Also the photography also makes the band members represent as ghosts therefore referencing spiritual and religious aspects, this can also link to audience’s inner interests and desires to become a different and formal person. This can also act, like their previous products, an catalyst that speeds their reputation and distribution across a more developed and economic distribution. So therefore this can allow their thoughts to link towards their political views. And finally the media product also shapes the entire product in the form of an letter which can demonstrates the initial and briefing for the audience members about forming and joining groups not affiliated with the government and society therefore spreading the influence, individual and inspirational aspects of humanity’s will of interest. 
The Killer’s media product shows a spectrum of emotions and feelings which links to the Muse media product. The Killer’s media product uses a variation of colours such as purple, yellow and black to represent strong inner emotions that build their personality and thoughts. This also influences the landscape to become more inspiring and show a lot about creation and evolution therefore linking to religious aspects. This builds the magazine advert’s self image and ideas in order to create creation and development over life and death. Also the use of the stadium clearly creates historical reference of the Roman coliseum therefore the stadium is linked to iconic and strong opinions over humanity’s will of becoming strong individuals that have different purposes. The stadium is also used to support substantial industry and architecture that clearly creates interest and explanations for the audience members. The use of the mosaic form also shows development of discovery and mystery therefore symbolizing an abstract world full of knowledge and ideas for the audience to consume and consider the individual factors about. The use of the desert landscape also makes the entire media product more isolated which builds the ideas of becoming rarer and discovered by the greatest minds of science and technology. This also makes the entire abstract world more conclusive and references different answers compared to simplistic and formal answers. The media product also uses pointillism text for their title to build the mosaic and developing landscape in order to represent their band members as individuals who improve the audience’s lifestyle and interests. The purple sky, with the use of mosaic form and constellation, represents mystery and confusion for the audience that the product fills the audience members full of discovery and knowledge. The constellation also references universal aspects, which makes this abstract world an individual planet therefore linking this new-formed world to reality. This clearly references Levi Strauss’s theory of binary oppositions that the media product and reality references a contrast of creation and evolution. The use of contrast also links to Green day’s use of contrast between society and individualism. That the killers show their own ideology through the use of historical aspects and directs the audience to the imagery of co-operating in an different landscape that isn’t tied to structure and form. This world is full of imagination, mystery, knowledge and beauty of creation and form therefore becoming a habitat to those who want to express their emotions and feelings in an imaginative and ideological form that allows themselves to show their solo integrity. The Killers magazine advert has also shown small white text for their names and information therefore showing that the Killer’s don’t need a gigantic and representing form that intrigues the audience. This shows the amount of representation, ideology; post modernistic, abstract and imagination that the Killers have applied show a hybrid of discovery and catalyst of applying the audience with gratifications. Therefore this links to the uses and gratifications model that the media product has used the ideal and imaginative landscape to attract their audience members to join their group in order to become free living and expressive individuals that aren’t tied to society’s path for supremacy and power. This therefore links to Muse’s media product for representing society as the antagonistic group that deliberately steals people’s possessions and individual thoughts. Whereas Muse is represented as the protagonist catalyzing group that encourages young minds of youth culture to prove themselves to stand for their own individual beliefs, ideas and above all integrity.