Wednesday, 21 October 2015

Marketing Campaigns

The most memorable thing from the Wolfenstein: The New Order marketing campaign was of course remaking the classic music and images from the 40s to 60s to in someway include the Nazi's

 This image is showing two Nazi's in gas masks walking through occupied Paris which seems to have been hit by poison gas, civilians begging for life can be seen as the Nazi on the left pulls out a Luger from his holster to finish off the civilian
This is showing a judge at a football match shooting a player in the head after he has refused to accept a red card
 This is the classic image of Neil Armstrong who planted the American flag on the moon but in this reworked image its a Nazi planting the swastika on the moon

 The original image











This is again a reworked image from the end of the second world war where an America sailor embraces and kisses a nurse on the street in New York, except that in this version it is a German soldier in Paris, and the nurse doesn't seem to be enjoying it

The original image


















This is the moment which changed the course of the second world war, the Nazi's came up with the atomic bomb before the Americans and they drop it onto New York







Another part of the Wolfenstein: The New Order's marketing campaign was the reworking of classic 60s songs to be in German as though the Germans have came up with the songs first

The logo of the alternate history recording company




 Some of their reworked songs include songs like House of the Rising Sun By The Animals to re rerecorded in German, other songs like Nowhere to Run have also re rerecorded as well as Surfin USA, Last Train to Clarksville etc.














The songs originally came with the collectors edition of the game in original looking boxes and also on vinyl.










 The game obviously came with trailers, live action trailers, cgi trailers and in-game trailers and there was a lot of them
 And it also came with loads and loads of posters inspired by 60s pop culture and the game in general


Wednesday, 14 October 2015

Political bias





The Sun - The Conservatives
The Guardian - Labour Party
The Mirror - Conservatives
The Mail - Liberal Democrats

Oddly satisfying


I really like this image because it is so oddly satisfying, its just a picture of a bench with snow on it, but the symmetrical shape the snow has taken satisfies people with OCD and people who just like symmetry. The point of interest is obviously the snow on the bench which has perfectly laid on the bench to create that smooth and symmetric shape. The simplicity of this image is also beautiful, just a picture of the snow on the bench. The viewpoint and the angle is just right, seeing most of the bench and seeing it in 3 dimensions showing everything off. The shapes and lines on the snow are just perfect just match correctly with the bench and are basically the same everywhere. The lighting is also nice as it seems to be mostly natural winter light instead of flashes or other electrical lights. The background of the image is also strangely satisfying where the snow below the edge of the bench is also very smooth and very defined.

Objective and Subjective Observations



Objetive - Its a little toddler on the beach, possibly dead, it could be a beach anywhere in the world and doesn't resemble a beach anywhere specific in the world. You wouldn't be able to straight away identify the ethnicity of the child because he looks just like any other child from anywhere in Europe.

Subjective - This is a Syrian toddler that has drowned on the sea while trying to get to the Greek island of Kos but his ship has unfortunately sunk killing everyone on board, including this child. His body washed up on a Turkish beach until he was picked up and taken off the beach.

Kate Moross Typography

 Kate Moross creates a lot of different pieces of work, but most of her most popular pieces are things like this, creative typography with varying shapes, sizes and colours of typefaces arranged in a specific way to create an image like this.
Kate Moross has produced a lot of work for a lot of different companies and events, she does a lot of work for festivals and also the musicians in her record label. This particular piece of work is for a festival and the musicians featured here are the ones that are to play at the festival.













Her work is also inspired by pop culture and popular thing, like the internet for example. She uses loads of very bright colours to create these works and in a lot of them uses geometric shapes which are all hand drawn and later tweaked and coloured in programs like Illustrator or Photoshop.













Her works is also inspired just by things she likes, food that she likes, her favourite type of music, favourite musician etc. For the ones about her own interests she uses loads of geometric shapes and a lot of pastel colours that would be accompanied by a darker background and a darker outline to shapes.














Kate Moross is an illustrator and graphic designer based in London. She has worked on various projects and has worked for various companies





Wednesday, 7 October 2015

Multimedia Journalism Brands & Social Media


 This is the front page of Vice.com, it has a main article which is the article that was released the latest, above that an advert that would somewhat fit Vice's viewer demographic, and below the main article some smaller laters ones which focus on different things and different interests







This is the lower part of the Vice homepage, here you can see the variety of articles which stay with the same aesthetic of the page, the same box size, font and size of writing.










This is the homepage of The Guardian, there are ads visible, one big main article, and smaller articles, most of them don't have images as there probably wasn't a image available for the certain article and topic. All the writing is in the same font and font size, all the headlines are also all in their own specific colour and font size. There are some information on the left like the weather for example and there are different sections for different news.



This is the homepage of The Times, again ads are visible, different sections for different news, same font for most writing with varying sizes, all the standard features of a homepage, like most other news websites there are the big current main articles followed by lots of less significant smaller articles.


Thursday, 1 October 2015

Photoshop Avatar

This is the original image, unedited and not cropped

These are my layers on which I have worked

This is the final image after it has been edited and colour changed