After analysing a sci-fi film poster...

Found looking at this and analysing it, I found a few things wrong with it. This includes having a strong man to lead the group. When in fact in the comics, its Storm, the dominant black woman who often leads the X men, yet she's behind Wolverine. The founder of the Xmen is at the back?
Also all women in this are lower down than Wolverine. Angel (who may be seen as a homosexual icon with the wings) is also lower down than the leader. Wolverine seems to be the centre of attention and everyone else is there to fill the gap.
Another thing I found was that the setting of this poster is not in the film whatsoever.

So using what I found, I decided to rearrange this poster using my cheaper version of Photoshop.
I used a shot from the finale scene where phoenix goes crazy.
I put the dominant black woman as the true leader and the founder close behind.
Wolverine is one of the main characters in the film so he's still near the front but not centre of attention.
Found an image of Angel with some clothes on so used that.
There are still going to be issues with this. But this is much better :)

Poster re-done by me

Genres: Films

A lot of the work which I have produced includes elements of fantasy and science fiction and as these genres are an interest of mine, it would make sense to focus on the science fiction genre.
I can use the research I've already done into science fiction and fantasy posters (from my Mock FMP) to help me with this work. I will look at science fiction and fantasy posters in more detail. Looking at stereotypes and things common between them. Styles etc.

Science Fiction

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction
http://www.imdb.com/genre/sci_fi

Fantasy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy
http://www.imdb.com/genre/fantasy

Action

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_film
http://www.imdb.com/genre/action

Superhero

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superhero_film

Just a thought

Seen as I'm having an artistic view towards The Media, why not make the poster I plan to make look more like a piece of art to attract the attention of the public?

The poke's "How to create a Hollywood movie poster"

According to the poke's "How to create a Hollywood movie poster", there are ten styles of poster seen. Ever felt like you've seen that movie poster somewhere before? That's because you have.

                          
                             "through the legs"

                 "back turned with weapon"

"running for their lives"

"we're in bed"

"massive eye"

"blue with animals"

"big heads in the sky + tiny beach people"

"little red dress"

"text on my face"

http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2011/11/10/how-to-create-a-hollywood-movie-poster/

The images I see on facebook haha

Openly Gay Men in the Media

This is just a few of the many gay men in the media. A lot of these people may be openly gay but the general public dont realise that they are gay because they aren't camp and like HEYY I'M GAYY! like the camp stereotypically gay men are. This is why people stereotype gay people to be really camp because the gays that get and demand the most attention are the camp stereotypical gays ones.

Representation of Gays in the Media

2:15 sticks out to me because I always watch simpsons and is something which is watched by many people of all ages.
Something which stood out for me was that although the view on them isn't any different, it seems to be more about male homosexuals than female ones.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bB6KvdKdKw

From Days When People Were Unfairly Characterised By Their Ethnicity

 Disney ...no surprise. But some of these films are still popular today such as Jungle Book and Aladdin.

In a city full of Arabic men and women, where the hell does a midwestern-accented, white piece of cornbread like Aladdin come from? Here he is next to the more, um, ethnic looking villain, Jafar.

Anyway, have a look for yourself.

http://www.cracked.com/article_15677_the-9-most-racist-disney-characters.html

Media and Gender/Race Stereotypes

Film: Xmen's Weak Storm

I came out of the latest installment of the X-Men movie series, “The Last Stand,” like most fans of the comic book: deeply disappointed. Some were upset by the limited screen time of aficionado favorites like Angel (precursor to Archangel), while others lamented the two dimensional vilification of Magneto, X-Men antagonist and leader for mutant self determination. My own issue has been smoldering over the entire series – the disempowerment and basic all around “girlification” of X-Men leader Storm.
Why would filmmakers cast the coquettish Berry to play the fierce and dominating Storm in the first place? Given the fact that the film was put out by Fox, one might suspect the worst. However, one can only surmise that the filmmakers lacked the imagination to get beyond the bankable Berry, thinking they needed to tone down the only Black heroine to star in a major comic book franchise. And that’s too bad.

The comic book Storm’s cold blooded, self-assured fearlessness conjures up more of a Grace Jones or Angela Bassett than the cowering, wimpy character Berry brings to the screen. According to a recent interview, Berry expressed concern about the role saying she hoped to do more than ‘go get the plane’ in the trilogy’s final installment (Washington Post, “Halle Storm,” May 27, 2006).

Storm’s character was a bright spot in the relentless denigration of Black women in media. Her character operated as a strong metaphor for what it means to be a Black woman in the United States. In Africa, she was revered as a goddess and a queen. In the United States she faces fear and bigotry but she remains tough, unapologetic, strong; a warrior in every sense of the word.

 I've always viewed Storm as a queen and Wolverine as an unruly warrior or animal. When in the film, its the other way round. She always seems to be behind the manly hunky Wolverine, like he's in charge...

http://www.seeingblack.com/article_50.shtml

Media and Gender Stereotypes

Course, this is a primary example of gendered stereotypes and how the media upholds them by infusing our homes with them. Imagine how many of these commercials play in between our daily consumption of TV shows, and how many of these gender constructions invade the impressionable minds of our children.

The last minute is most interesting

http://marinagraphy.com/media-gender-stereotypes/

Gender stereotypes - History of Pink and Blue

Did you know that pink hasn’t always been a colour for girls, or blue for boys?
In Michael Kimmel’s outstanding Manhood in America: A Cultural History, he points out that clothing wasn’t colour-coded in America until the early twentieth century, before which little boys and girls were dressed pretty much identically. Even when people started pushing for more gender-specific children’s clothing, there was a huge debate over which colour to assign to which gender. It started out with boys wearing pink or red because the colours were seen to indicate strength, while girls wore blue because they were “flighty” like the sky.

http://www.gender-focus.com/2010/09/23/pink-for-girls/

Stereotypes and sexuality - not falling into one category

"The Stroke Had Turned Me Gay"

Playing to the stereotypes:

Looking at past pictures of himself, 27-year-old Chris Birch struggles to remember or identify with his old self. He used to be a 19-stone, beer-swilling, party-loving rugby fan from the Welsh valleys, the life and soul of a party. He worked in a bank and loved sport and motorbikes.
After a freak accident in 2011, he says he underwent a big change to his personality. He believes that he has gone from being straight to gay. There are few known cases of a stroke turning a straight person gay, and major personality changes in stroke sufferers are rare. Even Jak Powell, Birch's fiance, believes his partner may always have been gay.
Dr Qazi Rahman of Queen Mary, University of London, an expert in human sexual orientation, invited Birch, who has swapped banking for hairdressing, to undergo the computer-based tests to see if he may, indeed, have been born gay. On half of the tests, Birch performed in the "expected direction" for a gay man, and for the other half was within the range of a straight man.
"Sometimes it takes something like a neurological insult - which is what a stroke is - to make you reassess those feelings, perhaps that are lying dormant, and bring them into the front of your mind and it is possible that is what has happened with [Birch]."

This teaches us a lot about attitudes to sexuality.

What the man 'turned' gay by a stroke can teach us about attitudes to sexuality | Paul Flynn

"Gregory Gorgeous"

Another person who plays to stereotypes is Gregory Gorgeous who is the extreme stereotypical gay.
http://www.youtube.com/user/GregoryGORGEOUS
With videos like 'whats in my purse', he looks and acts extremely feminine. In my experience, the really camp ones get more camp and become more of the stereotypical gay in front of others, such as friends. But if its just you and them, chilling, they are still camp but not so O.T.T.

He also makes me question gender stereotypes. Is he seen as a weaker person now because he looks feminine? If he was to look more masculine facially and clothes-wise (with the same body mass etc.) would he be seen as stronger?

Gareth Thomas - a gay rugby player? Yes!

Former Wales and Lions captain Gareth Thomas has broken one of the major taboos that surround sport by revealing he is gay.
"Just because you are gay, it doesn't mean you fancy every man who walks the planet," Thomas told the Daily Mail. "I don't want to be known as a gay rugby player. I am a rugby player first and foremost. I am a man."
"I just happen to be gay," he added. "It's irrelevant.
"What I choose to do when I close the door at home has nothing to do with what I have achieved in rugby.
"I'd love for it, in 10 years' time, not to even be an issue in sport, and for people to say: 'So what?'"
So they do exist ..you can be a 19-stone, beer-swilling, party-loving rugby fan from the Welsh valleys, the life and soul of a party,  worked in a bank and loved sport and motorbikes ...and be gay!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/welsh/8421956.stm

Imagery which doesn't just fall into one category

Though classed as Illustrations, there is something I noticed about the majority of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallow Part2 posters. I couldn't figure out whether they were photography or design like photorealism. Maybe its a mix of both?
CGI maybe?

This would be very good for something which was once a book. Without the illustrations and imagination and writing of harry potter, the films would not exist.
It keeps a bit of the orginal book and imagination.

Comic books made into films should keep a part of its original format at least on the poster or DVD cover, rather than changing it entirely.
So for example, with the marvel films it would be cool if they could look slightly comic arty and less 'lets pose for the camera' like a lot of the film posters are.

Illustrator - Matthew Woodson

Personal work 2007-2008

Matthew Woodson was born and raised in the pit of snakes known as rural Southern Indiana. After graduating from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago in early 2006 with a focus in Natural History Illustration, Matthew’s obsessive loves for natural history and the past were stronger then they had ever been. Fresh out of school Matthew was commissioned by Margeotes, Fertitta & Partners New York to illustrate the Perry Ellis Fall/Winter 2006 campaign, and has been working as a fulltime freelance illustrator ever since.
Looks a bit like a graphic novel/comic artist.
http://www.ghostco.org/

Comic artists use photorealism

Alex Ross is an american comic book writer/artist known for his painted interiors, covers and design work.  He rose to fame with the 1994 mini series Marvels which he collaborated with the writer Kurt Busiek for Marvel Comics. He has done projects for both Marvel and DC Comics, including the 1996 Kingdom Come. His feature film work includes concept and narrative art for Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2, and DVD packaging art for the M.

Andreas Englund

Taken from his website:

Garage

"Humour can be the carrier of messages that are
otherwise hard to convey.
For me, it liberates my thoughts and ideas from
pretentiousness while at the same time it opens
doors to new routes and angles."

Artist Andreas Englund was born
1974 in Falun, Sweden.
Now he works and lives in Stockholm.

A series of work which he is most famous for is the aging superhero which bares a resemblance to The Punisher.

Photorealism - Glennray Tutor

Patrick Caulfield uses Photorealism.
Photorealism is the genre of painting, based on the use of photography to gather information, which is then used to create a painting that appears photographic. The term is primarily applied to paintings from the US art movement that began in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Evolved from Pop Art and a reaction to Abstract expressionism and minimalism (against the last two).

Dream of Love 2005

I love the use of bright colours so it would make sense to look at an artist called Glennray Tutor. He (born in Kennett, Missouri in 1950) is an American painter who is known for his photorealistic paintings. He is considered to be part of the Photorealism art movement. His paintings are immersed with bright colours, nostalgic iterms, metaphor and with a complete focus on detail.

Glennray Tutor has also illustrated a few book covers in his time. Books by Michael Bishop which can be described as fantasy pieces.
Fantasy is something which I am looking into with the media codes and conventions for this particular genre.

Should've found out who did it...

I remember seeing a film being projected on a flowing large piece of fabric in the Whitworth art gallery. This would be interesting to do myself ...imagine if they the fabric wasnt just a bland piece of fabric but manipulated or painted on already. What effect would this have on the image projected onto it?

Yinka Shonibare - Whitworth Art Gallery

Boy on Globe 4
Commissioned by the Whitworth for the COTTON: Global Threads exhibition Boy on Globe 4 (2011) is a life size, headless boy balanced precariously atop a suspended globe. The child is dressed in Victorian period costume fashioned from Dutch wax batik prints. Synonymous with Shonibare’s work, wax batik fabric is commonly used in African dress, but actually has a complex and culturally diverse history.


Diary of a Victorian Dandy
Flips the roles of the people. The people are in victorian clothes. The black man has the highest status.

Lubaina Himid - culture and race

Lubaina Himid (born 1954 in Zanzibar, Tanzania) is a comptemporary African artist and professor of Comtemporary Art at the University of Central Lancashire. Her art focuses on themes of cultural history and reclaiming identities. She was one of the first artists involved in the Black Art movement in the 1980s and continues to create activist art which is shown in galleries in Britain as well as worldwide.

Uncomfortable Truths

Tom Dixon - bold colourful lights

The Tom Dixon brand is as individual as the man himself. Tom was born in Sfax, Tunisia in 1959 to a French/Latvian mother and an English father, the Dixon family moved to the UK when Tom was aged 4.
With no formal training other than a one-day course in plastic bumper repair, Dixon explored the decorative and structural potential of recycled materials and industrial scrap using his newly acquired welding skills. Dixon’s sculptural objects soon began to gain recognition and commissions and exhibitions followed.

Jack Light Fluoro
The award winning ‘sitting, stacking, lighting thing’. The Jack Light by Tom Dixon is a multi-functional object made from plastic and uses the process of rotary moulding.

Read somewhere near this that for colours to stand out they need to be simple. If there are a lot of colours in a complex pattern, they wont stand out as much.

Sam Bough - landscapes

Sam Bough (born in carlisle, in 1822 -1878) was an English-born landscape painter who spent much of his career working in Scotland.

Michael Craig-Martin bold colourful

Michael Craig-Martin (born in Dublin 28 August 1941) is a comtemporary conceptual artist and painter.
His later works have used a stylised drawing technique often depicting everyday household objects and sometimes incorporating art references, such as objects known from their use in Dada artworks. His work can be compared to that of his earlier comtemporary Patrick Caulfield and latterly with that of Julian Opie.

Eye of the Storm 2002


The use of bold typography

Art RED

Patrick Caulfield - contrast. Bold colourful

Patrick Caulfield (29th January 1936  - 29th September 2005) was an English painter and prinkmaker known for his bold canvases which often incorporated elements of photorealism with a pared down scene (great contrast).

After Lunch 1975

Manchester trip research

These are the list of names and ideas that I wrote down in my sketch book from going on the research trip to manchester going in the different museums and galleries:

Patrick Caulfield

Michael Craig-Martin

Samuel Bough

Tom Dixon – Jack Lights

Lubaima Himid

Projecting images on to fabric. Manipulated fabric?