Saturday, 26 March 2011

Band website


This is a website design for a fictional band associated with ICHK.

Sunday, 20 March 2011

White and Nerdy - Popup version

This is "White and Nerdy" by Weird Al Yankovic. Rohith and I have added pop-ups throughout the video that contain trivia about the video and notes on the genre conventions used within it.

Music industry mind maps

Two mind maps on television's and the internet's effects on the music industry. Click here to view.

District 9 Poster Textual Analysis

I examined how far the poster for the movie "District 9" conformed to the conventions of it's genres. The document can be viewed here.

Wednesday, 17 November 2010

Media studies villain compilation

This movie is a compilation of stereotypical villains from movies. I picked these clips because they show off many of the traits that make up the antagonist characters in most movies. In order of appearance, these villains are:
-Johnny, from The Shining
-Agent Smith from the Matrix
-Darth Vader from Star Wars (specifically episode IV)
-The Mouth of Sauron from Lord of the Rings III (deleted content, yes, but he was still one of the best villains)
-Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th
-The Joker from Batman: The Dark Knight

Traits that these villains carry that typically denote someone as a villain are:
-Slight mental instability, which is quite evident in the case of Johnny and the Joker. While their motives may be twisted, they still believe that what they're doing is right. Such dogma is also seen in Darth Vader in his Controlling of the empire.
-Villains seem to tend to like talking about themselves or their exploits, having inflated egos. The Joker and the Mouth of Sauron are both key examples of this. 
-Villains often have an evil power backing them. Classically, the arch-nemeses to superheroes have powers of their own, but it can often be more subtle, such as the Joker’s skill in manipulating others or the Mouth of Sauron’s command over an army.

Wednesday, 6 October 2010

ICHKMUN Website

Hey, guys. This mainly concerns the model UN people, but I've set up a website to keep all of our news articles, country profiles, rules and conventions etc...
I'm going to be showing you how to set up an account, post pages and link them together.
See you on the interwebs!