Stranger Things Posters

Bike without an owner - an indexical sign that someone is missing 

In a dark forest - scary, unknown, conventional horror setting

Mysterious, dim lit building in background 

Bike - large, at the front with lights focused on it make it seems important

The children have found the bike, will they look for the owner?

 

 Laboratory and "Restricted Area" Sign with person in hazmat suit.                                                                                                                                                                         Nancy is holding a bat like a weapon which shows she will have to fight.                                                                                                
11 as the largest person in the centre to show she is the most important and her hand in a position where it looks like she is controlling something.                                                                   
Lights and letters on the wall.                                                      
The moon and dark woods around the edge give a horror feeling and the fact that the characters are surrounded by the darkness makes them seem trapped

Gives date it was set

Top half represents the known world, bottom half represents the 'upside down'. They are mirror images but are not aware of each other 

Mysterious laboratory is seen again

Woods - conventional horror setting

Will is seen in the upside down

"Stranger Things" in red neon font - repetition, attracts audience

Eleven, Mike and Dustin hugging - friendship

Dark, misty woods - repetition, important to the story

Will is missing from the poster

Setting is nothing we have ever seen

Pumpkins at the bottom - possibly important

Shows new characters and monster 

David Guetta

 David Guetta is a French DJ, record producer and songwriter. In the DJ Mag Top 100 DJ's poll, David Guetta was voted the number 1 DJ in 2011, 2020 and 2021. He has sold over 50 million records and his music has been streamed over 10 billion times around the world. David Guetta released his most successful song 'Shot Me Down' in 2014

 One of  his most popular songs, Titanium, was released in 2011 and has sold over 1 million copies. The song was written by David Guetta, Sia Furler Giorgio Tuinfort and Afrojack. 

The music video for Titanium was filmed in a high school in Quebec, Canada. To increase the popularity of the music video, 14 seconds were released early on the 16th of December 2011 on David Guetta's YouTube channel. The video was later released on the 20th of December 2011.

The song lyrics:

You shout it out
But I can't hear a word you say
I'm talking loud, not saying much
I'm criticized, but all your bullets ricochet
Shoot me down, but I get up

I'm bulletproof, nothing to lose
Fire away, fire away
Ricochet, you take your aim
Fire away, fire away

You shoot me down, but I won't fall
I am titanium
You shoot me down, but I won't fall
I am titanium

Cut me down
But it's you who'll have further to fall
Ghost town and haunted love
Raise your voice
Sticks and stones may break my bones
Talking loud, not saying much

I'm bulletproof, nothing to lose
Fire away, fire away
Ricochet, you take your aim
Fire away, fire away

You shoot me down, but I won't fall
I am titanium
You shoot me down, but I won't fall
I am titanium
I am titanium
I am titanium

Stone-hard, machine gun
Firing at the ones who run
Stone-hard as bulletproof glass

You shoot me down, but I won't fall
I am titanium
You shoot me down, but I won't fall
I am titanium

You shoot me down, but I won't fall
I am titanium
You shoot me down, but I won't fall
I am titanium

I am titanium

Construction evaluation

To create this magazine front cover I needed a picture of Dillon and to get one, I needed to use a camera and direct Dillon into the same pose as the one on the front cover of the magazine I am copying. What went well is that I managed to get Dillon into the centre and into the same pose as the magazine. I could have taken more photos though to allow me to have a wider variety to choose from when copying the magazine. Also I could have chosen a better magazine to copy because my first choice was not professional and went against a lot of magazine conventions. 

The photos I took were uploaded onto my computer but I needed to select the one which I think best copied the magazine and looks the best. I learnt to look more closely at the pictures and see what was similar and different to the original cover.

When editing the picture of Dillon, I learnt to used Adobe Elements 11 to improve the quality of the photo and to crop Dillon so he would cover more of the page.

After that, I learnt to used InDesign to add the masthead and other text to the magazine front cover. I then learnt to changed the colour of the text and add colours behind it to make them stand out. When making the front cover, I learnt how simple it is to add and change the colours and positions of the text. When copying the cover, I learnt how they were set out to have the model in the middle as the main focus and the test surrounding them. I can also see how they choose contrasting colours to allow for some parts like the masthead to stand out and attract people.

The Big Issue

 

London Eye - Indexical of London - Symbolises rich

The shard - represents the rich and powerful

"Warm Up" - Homeless link

Strapline - Curran and Seaton

"Bumper Edition" - more expensive, more profit for homeless - giving on Christmas

Trees - indexical of Christmas 

Close up on Scrooges face - symbolic of government, anti capitalism

Shocked expression - cant believe how people are still treated today

Scrooge - indexical of Scrooge who wanted equality 

Candle - Symbolisms, the rich can afford warmth

Three young girls singing- Represent the lower class, the ones selling the magazine

Snow - winter - poor suffer the most in winter

Old font - old problem

"still living" and "Haunts us today" - poor still find it difficult. We should feel ashamed - Gauntlett

 

Strapline

Hair covers the masthead - symbolises how big he is

"I wanted to look after my mom" Shows he is a real person

"Do not give up" - Guantlett - how reader can feel determined

face made of shapes - looks like a puzzle

Colours of the sun and it is glowing around him

Just his face - what people see him as

Producer takes him seriously, they car more about him than politics

Looking pastviewer - symbolises they want to move to America

Both wearing red vests and mainly focused on faces - gender neutral

Palace - indexical - royal members

Holding The Big Issue magazine - supporting poor

Child drawing - makes us see the royal family less seriously - Gauntlett

Motivates the reader - you can become anything with enough work - Gauntlett 

Minecraft Research

In May of 2009, the Swedish developer began to create the sandbox game where gamers are free to extract raw materials, craft tools, items, build infrastructure, explore or do whatever they want. The endless worlds contains a variety of biomes from jungles, deserts, snow and more. Players can create nearly any structure imaginable due to the huge variety of blocks. Initially there were 2 game modes, creative and survival, but recently other modes such as Adventure, Spectator, Multiplayer and Story Mode have been added. It was officially released on the 18th of November 2011 by Mojang Studios.

Mojang did not spend any money on advertising but instead relied on magazines like Penny Arcade and gamers to spread the game.

The beta version of the game had been released on January in 2011 and had over 1 million purchases in the first month and by April $33 million of revenue had been made. 

Before the game was officially released, 4 million copies had been bought and 16 million users had registered.

Minecraft Pocket Edition was released on Sony Xperia Smartphones and not long after was released on Android and iOS.

Minecraft was released on Xbox 360 in 2012. 

In 2013 Minecraft Pi was released for educational purposes to novice programmers.

In May of 2017 Minecraft was released for Nintendo switch and it could be bought for the Nintendo 3DS in September of 2017.

Minecraft was initially released on disk from game stores but it is now mainly bought online where it is easier. The amount of Minecraft players is still increasing.

Minecraft has been a huge success with over 238 million copies being sold, making over $415 million which makes it the 2nd best selling video game of all time.

Timeline

17th October 2019 - Minecraft earth, a spin off to Minecraft, is released and free to play on Android and iOS.

26th May 2020 - Minecraft Dungeons, a spin off to Minecraft, is released to Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Windows and Nintendo Switch.

30th June 2021 - Minecraft Earth shuts down because COVID 19 has made it impossible to keep free.

The PEGI age ratings are supposed to only allow people who 

Political allegiance

The Guardian - social liberal, social democratic, left-wind 

The Daily Mail - very right wing

The Sun - right wing

The Times - slightly right wing

The Daily Express - very right wing

The Star - slightly labour and right wing

The Independent - centre

The Telegraph - right wing

The Observer - social liberal, social democratic, left wing

The Mirror - left wing

The Guardian online news and news values

 

Gatekeeping - journalists decide what events should be published because they are the most important, the biggest or interesting.

Extraordinariness - A rare event like a tragedy is more likely to be published than a routine event because it is rare and will attract more readers. 

Threshold - Events which are bigger and more important are more interesting to publishers and readers.

Unambiguity - This title cannot be interpreted as anything other than Southern England is flooded. stories which are easy to understand from the title are more likely to be published by journalists than articles open to interpretation.

Reference to elite persons - people with more power are more likely to be featured because their view is deemed more important than those of regular people.

Personalisation - The event is made to look associated with the minister

 

Negativity - Bad news is used more by journalists because it is seen as more exciting and is more likely to attract a reader than an article on good news.