Author: joshbunce15

So this is the zine that me and another made this week. our theme for this zine is this pinky, blue retro distorted look. The idea was the images inside didn’t have to be super coherent as long as they stuck with the aesthetic. Obviously its not finished, but I do like this start and think it could look quite good with abit more time.

 

My Attempt at photo montage:

So this week we were set the challenge to create our own photo montage, either using the magazines that we had access to that day, or we could use some images that we found online alongside the images from the magazines. This image above me is my attempt. Now it’s not really that good, I’m not super use to this thing so knowing what to look for was difficult to me, but i still found it quite fun and interesting.

 

Hannah Hoch

So this is Hannah Hoch, she’s a german artist that works in the realms of photomontage. I think her work is just amazing! There just so beautifully creepy, and as soon as I saw that sun with the eye and teeth on the presentation i had to go look at more of her work.

To Conclude this task, i think photomontage is really powerful and expressive and just wonderful way to creating and if done right can send a message along way.

Glossary of words I didn’t know the meaning of:

Marxist
Meaning: A supporter of the political and economic theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

Sedentary
Meaning: (of a person) tending to spend much time seated; somewhat inactive.
(of work or a way of life) characterized by much sitting and little physical exercise.
(of a position) sitting; seated.

Grouse
Meaning: A medium to large game bird with a plump body and feathered legs, the male being larger and more brightly coloured than the female.

Ballast
Meaning: Heavy material, such as gravel, sand, or iron, placed in the bilge of a ship to ensure its stability.

Slough
Meaning: A swamp or a situation characterized by lack of progress or activity.

(More to be added)

For this lecture we discussed the positive and negatives of living in the city, these are the notes i made:

Notes on Lecture about advertising

Here we had to make notes on media, and the ways we consume it.

(These note where made on the one note app on my iPad, seems like a really effective way to make notes, so I’ll probably keep using it)

 

As you can see in my notes, we’ve cover the Chomsky’s Propaganda Model and the five filter:

Ownership

This in summary talks about how the higher up and the companies that own other companies control and dictate what messages they send us through advertising.

(An Example of this)

Advertising

The second filter deals with advertising its self, take newspapers for example that need advertising to help pay the costs for production, the underlining problem with this is the advertising that they can’t live with out are all saying and putting across there message.

Sourcing

This filter talks about sourcing and how large media corporations and Journalists are likely to get most of their sources from a specific place for most of their stories, meaning even though it meant to be an unbiased opinion it coming from the same people every time.

Flak

Flak is termed for negative responses to media comments when try to discredit them, but they normally get accused of being wrong.

Fear

Filter five normally works off Fear and scaring the public to fit in, you often see news outlet will work of one huge world ending problem to another world ending problem.

For this task we had to find out the answers for the questions using various methods of searching using the internet.

Everything including normal google searches, image search using an app I found on the app store, and just using other peoples general knowledge. I liked how this task had a wide variety of questions, I read a lot of comic in my spare time so I already knew about the original V for Vendetta comic. So when the question about it pop up I already knew the answer.