I chose brief 3 and wanted to make a website and a poster of my artist. I chose brief 3 because i am quite passionate about music since a very small age. I also did the music as my GCSE option in Year 9 which gave me a lot of ideas about the music industry and how things function there. I took these skills and knowledge that I have learnt as an advantage. Also, being fans of various artists and visiting concerts inspired me to use my all-time dream to create my own singer and make it realistic.
I set out to make a website which consisted of 3-4 different pages for the fans to view. I had to do a lot of research on various artists such as Taylor Swifts and others who were of the same genre. This is because my artist was also going to be part of the same genre. I then researched and found out that my audiences were mainly young teenage who were unable to get jobs or have good jobs to pay for the magazines or biography of the artist and therefore they turned to website instead. Taking this factor into consideration, I decided to create a website. Also, many young teenage girls who are of the age 13+ prefer the website as it’s quite interactive with social networking sites being available for them to interact on with the artist. I set out to make a website that looked more of a blog page written by the artist. This was done so it looked realistic and helped the audience engage with the artist. Nevertheless, I also wanted a page with all the tour dates so the fans were able to attend and know where she would be performing.
I also created a tour poster, followed by an advert of my artist’s album and an interview in print. I analysed tour posters of various different artists who do country music. This was done so that it would give me a ...
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...es and making posters as I was able to carry out this task without the help of the teacher purely because of the past experience I have been open to and my passion. This therefore meant that I was able to work at a continuous pace. However, I don’t think I was quite successful at making my website turn out to be the way I wanted due to technology not working properly and my lack of ability to use the software adequately. My products haven’t met my expectation completely because something’s didn’t work out well for example the website due to lack of knowledge in certain area and lack of resources. However, If I was going to recreate my products again, I think I would organise my time more wisely and do a lot more research than I did in the first round. I would also try and use other varieties of resources like using Photoshop instead of PowerPoint to edit pictures.
Times have changed, and along with the times so has country music. American country music lovers have went from Loretta Lynn and Waylon Jennings, just two of the many classic oldies, to Carrie Underwood and Luke Bryan, two very appealing country music artists. However, it is not only the tune of the music that has changed, it is the image, the appeal, and overall the type of icons the media is portraying these modern music stars as. Icons such as Lynn and Jennings had identifiable features within their music as well as their appearance that spoke sweet southern belle and rugged twang. Whereas Underwood’s and Bryan’s appeal now is much more sexualized than it was during the oldies. These changes affect the way modern day singers are marketed compared to former country music stars, instead of focusing on talent it is now looks.
Pecknold, Diane. 2007. The Selling Sound: The Rise of the Country Music Industry. Durham: Duke University Press.
On Monday March 25, some members of the baseball team, my girlfriend, and I traveled to Murray State University to watch a concert performed by Nelly and the St. Lunatics. It was a terrible night to go anywhere because it was raining and storming the whole way, but there was nothing that was going to stop us from going to the concert. We where all so hyped up about it and couldn’t wait to head out. My brother, who attends Murray State, had gotten us excellent seats about seventy-five feet away from the stage.
The purpose of the “Huntin,’ Fishin,’ and Lovin’ Everyday” tour was to promote Luke Bryan’s album (Kill the Lights), Brett Eldridge’s new album (Brett Eldridge), and Granger Smith’s latest album (When the Good Guys Win). The goals of the concert was spread awareness to crowd of these new albums and excite the public of the new music that would soon be released. The objectives were to play three new songs per artist before ending each segment between musicians. The target audience varied within each performer.
I created my website on weebly.com because I knew it was a simple website creator. I got to choose the theme and the layout of the website and add different pages to it so it would fit my style. I first added text to the website in more a blog style form, the text was about my own experiences in dance because I wanted to give people some background on me. I added links to other pages, such as dance studios, that people could find helpful if they were looking for a place to dance. I added photographs and videos to the page to make it more interesting and to support what I had written. My intended audience for the website was people coming to Michigan State and looking for a place to dance or just interested in dance in general.
The debate whether commercialism has stripped country music of its authenticity is one that requires further examination into who ultimately holds the power. The sometimes-drastic changes made in music leaves people questioning the tastes of consumers when in fact they are the bystanders of an overpowering industry. Fans are people who buy the albums, go to concerts, and request songs on the radio, not the execs that market the music, and yet their opinions/tastes aren’t taken into consideration. Fans carry a lot of clout in regards to what they define as commercialism gone wrong and acceptable country music. Despite what may seem fair, those who are financially invested in its success drive the commercialization of music.
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The most asked questiion would probably be, how do concerts help the artist? When all the money adds up from the live show that the artist played that night, 50% to 70% of that money goes to the promoter and artist. 15% to 20% of that money goes to the manager of the artist. The rest of the money that is not counted against the artist, promoter, and manager, will go to fees that need to be paid and the people that are in the crew. You also help the artist by buying a concert ticket and by buying their merchandise, that still helps a ton to the artist even though it doesn’t sound like
I then also added a picture of a young Springsteen and his guitar. The projection of New Jersey represents the first Springsteen and first concert I have ever attended in my lifetime. I went to the Barclay Center in Brooklyn, New York in last May and felt that that would be a interesting detail to add to my map. My design choice was an attempt so have a music themed map projection. I wouldn't change my map in anyway, maybe only to add more detail and minor additions or edits. I am content with my map I made and I am proud to present my topic of choice to my class audience. I learned and got to see how far and how fast Springsteen travels around the United States to perform. Almost as if he hops state to state, but surprisingly he doesn't play around Montana and Idaho area. I also gained knowledge of ArcMap on my own because it was not a lab with detailed instructions. I shocked myself with the knowledge I already had and the ideas I came up with to produce my own
I would go home every night and practice programming simple websites and looking at the codes of my favorite websites. My optimism haphazardly patched the holes poked into my veil of excitement by the constant error messages I received. I ignored my waning enthusiasm until we had to create surveys. The vail of excitement came crashing down and I realized computer programming was not my passion. My attention to detail is not nearly sharp enough to succeed in the profession. I consistently programmed errors so complex that even the teacher couldn’t fix them. The final straw was the horrible posture I cultivated during that class. When scheduling for senior year came around, I filled my schedule with familiar classes and study halls with the memory of HTML still fresh in my mind. As the principal came to collect our papers, I realized what I had done. So, after hours of carefully plotting my senior schedule, I erased it all and filled in the lines with new classes that sounded interesting. Maybe senior year I’ll figure it all out I
Our opening discussion will also give the reader a sense of current debates and issues within cultural and media theory, emphasizing which issues and controversies are of crucial importance in the contemporary era. Our narrative will track salient develop- ments in the study of culture and media, supplying a mapping of the prevailing fields of theories and methods which have proliferated especially since the 1960s. Indeed, to pursue our KeyWorks metaphor, each perspective provides an opening into the complex terrain of contemporary media and culture, furnishing access to understanding the world in which we live. Each “key” will open doors to new domains, such as ideology, the politics of representations, and cultural
A sign system is representation through communication which in turn leads to a shared meaning or understanding. We hold mental representations that classify and organise the world (whether fact or fiction), people, objects and events into meaningful categories so that we can meaningfully comprehend the world. The media use sign systems through newspapers, magazines, television,internet, and the radio etc. The conceptual map of meaning and language are the basis of representation. The conceptual map of meaning, are concepts organised, arranged and classified into complex relations to one another. The conceptual map of meaning although allows you to distinguish your own individual interpretation of the world, at the same time as holding similar views to that of other people in your culture. As the meaning is produced and constructed and in turn learned by a particular group of people. Therefore sharing conventions and codes of their language and culture. Signs can only convey meaning if we possess codes which allow us to translate our concepts into language. These codes are the result of social conventions which lead to the shared maps of meaning. These shared meanings are learnt unconsciously as we become members of a culture.If we have a concept of something in our minds we can say we know the meaning of this concept. However we cannot express or communicate this meaning without the second system of representation, language. Language is the only way in which meanings can be effectively exchanged between people, as people within the same culture are able to interpret the sign of language in the same manner.
One of the aspects McQuail talks about in this chapter is the role that the media play in a free society. He explains that besides “the require[ment] to do no harm”, the media don’t have any formal obligations to cooperate with the government or any other institutions to help them reach specific outcomes. Through history, however, “unwritten obligations” regarding the role that the media play, was established and put into practice. Several internal and external pressures also make it harder for the media to remain independent.
In this chapter will be explained conjunctive things and differences between media framing and agenda setting theory and why it is significant for the media and also immediacy and proximity importance in media content and news.
Democracy is commonly defined as a government of the people, by the people and for the people. Freedom and democracy walk hand in hand. Democracy is only compatible with a free economy. It is completely incompatible with a system that provides for a governing authority with coercive power. We live in a society today where the media plays a pivotal role in how we see the world, and how our opinions are formed, whether it is from what we watch on television or what we gather from newspapers or internet. Media acts as an interface between the common man and the Government. It is a very powerful tool with the ability to make and break the opinion of people. If media tells the public that this picture is being demanded as one