Gillian Rose

Gillian Rose 

1. The site(s) of the production of an object or image eg.

How was it made? It was made in the game industry, 2 years in the making with lots of research and primary sources  needed to be gathered to produce it.

Using what methods, materials, tools, what kind of technology? There needs to be a lot of game development within this type of work, artists, 3d artists, 3d model making. The technology to put on a readable disc.


Is it identifiable as a particular genre? War game

Who made it, where and when? Infinity-ward created the game

Why did they make it? Who was it made for? 
They have made this game for the public and it is not only on  one console its on both the PS3 and the Xbox360. People who like to play war games and this game however is one of the best on the market.

What was the social, cultural and technological context of its production? 
The public have the opportunity to play with friends online in a lot of different battle mode like for example free-for-all and team death match. People can become very good at the games like for example a clan called FaZe , have recorded and posted many videos on youtube and now they have a partnership and are earning money for this.

2. The site of the image:
What visual effects are produced by the materials and techniques used? 3d artists and computer graphics


How does the image relate to its social context? You can speak to friends in an online match and is definitely a way to add and gain friends.


3. The site of the audience:
How has it been displayed and where? They have lots of publicity such as regular advertisements, magazines and interent pages promoting the product


Are there multiple copies or just one? There are thousands shipped across the world and have a guinness world record on how many they've sold since the last game was out.

What viewpoint or values does it offer to its audience or consumers?  People who play these games or that are interested.

Semoitics

Wednesday  16th November 2011

Chamillionaire - Hiphop/Evening News

The music video shows a very broad amount of political satire. Chamillionaire plays three different characters, He plays a dirty officer, plays himself and he plays the anchor news presenter.

                  The video gives you a layout of breaking news occuring, making the viewer almost believe these things are taking place in the world or just to just to grab there attention.Lyrics have alot to play in this video because there are so much to take in. You really have to watch the video a couple of times to catch the bits you've missed; just like a film in this sense. These references are either displayed in the video to give you that notion that its there, and also there are people he includes like Snoop Dogg, Jay z, Kanye West, Osama Bin Laden, George Bush and others.

On the desk there are particular references to different things such as the N.W.A baseball cap which is referencing a "gangster culture" for African americans.

The main story is outlining black culture and how stereotyping is being put forward in a big way, just like the starting scene where he gets arrested for nothing.

Chamillionaire is maybe pointing out that black people are being targeted some how?

Putting the video of George Bush Golfing, as he swings the ball goes straight into the hole and it has been digitally edited with oil pouring out. Basically saying that this is the main reason for war, in his own opinion.

Weather report with signs of pollution like for example Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Fires and Tsunami's. They already showed a small clip of hurricane katrina and the damage that it caused to new orleans. Showed polar ice caps falling off as due to global warming and the effect of how fast there falling.

Shows a brief clip of an american tank in Iraq, showing lots of well known logos with a twist. These logos were shown as "Mopil" instead of "Mobil" the American engine company,

"Exx off" which should be "Exx on"

"Pfizee" should be "Pfizer" which is a Pharmaceutical company making effective drugs and also  a upside down logo of "Mc Donalds".

"Prices of gas are too high" which this gives a more down to earth statement, which everyone who drives would care about how much it goes up tax wise. On the sign where it should state the pence per litre, it has been edited with text slang words like "LOL , WTF" and "OMG".

The FCC is the American Federal Communications Commission and deal with what is allowed in there society, Things relating to sex, crime, violence, bad language ; they have the powers to review it and discard it if it doesn't meet the standards. This advert in the video shows a scam ringtone give away where you would call in and receive a ringtone in the style. Just to give a reference back to them that he maybe doesn't like them discussing about how rap music should be banned.

Shows a Doberman dog with edited smoke effects to represent Snoop Dogg, with lyrics to back up on him smoking weed.

"The white house is going to stay white, cuz we all know that obama's black" him discussing his views on how maybe its a white world or that he would like the place to have a change?

As its a news report style the video is directed on to the viewer to get there immediate attention. Its a great song and video that has been very much addressed and there is a lot that goes on. With currebt trends and stuff that gets published through the media. 

Stephen Fry Spreading The Word

Wednesday 19th October 2011 

Stephen Fry's Spreading the word

As Stephen investigates, Speaking is instinctive to children to talk to each other. Writing however is a whole new invention. Methods of communication through pictorial drawings. This was the first of the cuneiform language started.     

The programme was very interesting as there has been more detail of the History of written language. The way how language has been updated into the the text we all use everyday, is all been used from the roseta stone. The Roseta Stone has 3 different languages engraved into it, these languages are Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs , Greek and Egyptian Demonic script ; These have made the possibility of humans to communicate using these letters into now words we speak.

We then had other breakthrough with the human language. Pictures began to form letter structure and this then later developed and formed our now stable alphabet letters, The Phoenicians made this possible. 

The most interesting part of the programme was the story of how the Chinese still stuck with there pictorial word forms. These different symbols are learnt by each child and there are around 2,000 different symbols. Also the symbols dont give any hints of how to say the words, this is a very interesting topic.

Task 3

Wednesday 19th October 2011

Task 3 

What do you think of the 2012 logo?

My reaction to the logo is very misleading to people, and a logo is very important to connect strongly with an audience. In this case this logo should appeal to everyone and this will only have attention to a selected few, because at a glimpse you can only just see a bunch of shapes. I really dont believe this to be a finished project, there is no imagination behind this piece and I would have had this as a design and then went around in different locations of England and have a public opinions to back it up.

By comparing to the Beijing 2008 logo it is a finished design. The logo incorporates elements of the country and there own history. The image shows a person running in the red; it really looks like a chinese word or symbol of some kind. There is no flow within the London logo and I really believe they let the nation down, by even suggesting a really bad one like this. It is a logo and unfortunately we have to take this one as ours, in history books they will maybe line up all the logos and there will be London's.

I will have a go at creating a logo myself and upload it to deviant art.com and try and see if I'll get a better reaction than what the public really thinks of it. 

The Lecture session 2

Wednesday 5th October 2011

The History of Photography

Ascetic questions of photography (Group work)

What makes a good image?

How many ways can you display an image?

What defines a good photographer?

What is the limit of Photography? 

When was the First Photograph?

Ethics 

Design brands exploit cheap labour in other countries.

Use Of animal products

Airbrushing - unrealistic views of people 

Size and health of models 

Permission and Law issues

Paparazzi 

Nude images - the body/nakedness

Photography is the art process of producing images of objects on photosensitive paper. The lesson had a long list of the earliest photographers, which was very interesting to see how the first image was produced and how quickly the photographers  got in an artistic way. 

There are other topics in today's lesson was about how photograph's can be shown in the wrong light and that people can easily see pictures being very disturbing. 

Tom Stroddart

This image is very disturbing, there are sympathetic photographs that people show for advertisement but the shock and horror of this image shown is just disgusting. I honestly don't see why to take a photograph of a man that is literally dying of starvation and why anyone would even want to document this. Maybe it's a particular topic of how bad it is for the third world and is this image supports of how much we should give for them as a charity.


How ever the years got more interesting with photography and they had new ways  of it's great power. Crime scenes were photographed to use certain references to how it was committed, as well as people who had mental health, people who had a criminal record would have had there photo taken for a mug shot. There is so many different ways on catching detail from a camera and it shows a lot throughout history. 

Sally Mann interview 

A controversial photographer, during the interview the issues raised.Why would she have had published a book, with her children without clothes on for people to look at as well as the dead corpses. I strongly believe that Sally is going with the flow of how photography can be all kinds of topics including the corpse that she had decaying and having documented. This new type of evidence or knowledge can be useful, for example a cold case unit. There are things in the world that we may not like and would be deemed as crazy or unethical, but she has gone in a direction that no other person has investigated before.


However there is a personal matter that she has exposed her children by showing them naked and that is for the public to view? This subject should be left in the value of there own house hold because there are sick and violent people in the world of today and it is something that could drive them to commit these crimes. But in some aspects of her photography she has had her children in a happy moment like for example (this image shown to the right)


   This shows kids being kids, a more subtle light than be told hold a particular pose.


Sally mann isn't a bad photographer it's just her decisions of how her mind likes to follow different topics. There are really risky images that she shouldn't take as in my opinion they are very different.   

Creative histories an industries session 1

                                                          Wednesday 28th September 2011

http://lostparadigms.artician.com/portfolio/Jazz-Man/

    The Jazz Man

This picture is from a art domain called "Artician" its great to talk to other artists and share comments on your posts.
This picture really shows a representation of me for this subject, it doesn't just present you with an amazing outcome. The colours of this have different stokes showing this image full of life, they also have lots of meaning around this jazz player. Thoughts come to mind as if hes playing because hes happy or sad?  The jazz player is showing his true colours by playing the best he can to achieve a dream goal in life? This shows how I am also as a person, very calm and also trying to achieve the very best of my potential.  

Si Scott

Graphics has changed me from when I started in my A-Levels, the concept and design work that goes into creating the best final outcome. I have chosen this video because it shows off an artists by the name of Si Scott. Si Scott is a typographer making these amazing designs by hand  which is unbelievable. I have always been interested in typography mainly because its the word and design that gets people's attention, this also applies with images as well but the outcome of this is an image of itself.  

                                                                      Matthew Craven

http://crav.co.uk/portfolio.html

Matthew Craven has a very unique skill in illustration, his work consists of mainly black and white which really shows depth and draws you closer to his mark making skills. The pictures seem to be drawn in charcoal, graphite stick, inks and paints. These images have interested me just only recently as I have just read a small article in "Creative Review".

This picture to the right is by far my favourite. This is called "Two Liverpudlian Thugs." The image shows a very detailed mountain/cliff side and at the bottom you can see a small car/van; a vauxhall old van comes to mind when I look at this. In this car there must be the two Liverpudlians, the image shows amazing detail with every mark, charcoal comes to mind with this as well as a light amount of graphite powder to make a noise effect around the whole piece.

Session 1 tasks

What is Graphics ?

Graphics is  all about visual communication. The process engages thought and design through making the viewer/customer acknowledge what it is or what is on show. The main drive is looking to find your target market, also it is vital for these designs/work to come across easy to the viewer as well as the graphic designer.