infomation graphics

This is showing infomation about the BNP, and where their areas are the most strongest. (blue)

The pink shows areas of large non white populations.

The purple indicates the areas where they collide with each other.

If you look closely at the map on the right the areas where they are both active arent that common. Would there be a specific reason behind this? for example the "class" of a certain society?

Also looking at this map it looks like there is alot of strong BNP supporters throughout England. Which I find quite surprising. I thought less people where supporters of the BNP.

Even though this infomation not everybody is happy to look at and get involved with racial issues, its presented in a very colourful and less depressing than it could of been presented.

Infomation graphics

This image is of the map of the world and under each country has a word, all in different colours representing what this country is the best at, whether it is a crime, a world record etc.

the actual map itself is a very light grey and just about visible,

the words themselves are all in the same type face, with a different coloured box around it, those colours represent a category of what that country is best at. I like the way this is done because the topic is quite an interesting one anyway. If it was just written people wouldn't be as interested as they would be after looking at this, because its bright and colourful, and it gives you a clear view of the countrys and where abouts they are using the map.

Information graphics

This graph is showing which gender uses different social networking sites the most. To represent male and female they have used small people, on the female ones you can see the silhouette of a dress. Also the female ones are pink, the male ones are blue. The grey means they are used equally just as much by male and female. It also has the average percentage at the right hand side. Near enough all of the sites are used by females. Only one is used more by males in the pictogram, which is a site called "Digg".

Then only four are used equally.

twelve are used more by females. I think this is a good way to display information, its colourful, neat, and easy to understand and follow.

information graphics

A man named Christopher Niemann drew this along with a whole bunch more and gave them al a title "good night and tough look"

saying also "getting a good nights sleep is actually alot more complicated than one would think."

The illustration here to the right is a person with their head on a pillow, showing the heated side of the pillow with the persons face on, and the cold side, which the person will soon turn over to because they wake up too hot.

"The second most wonderful thing about sleeping is the sensation of your cheek meeting the cool half of the pillow after you’ve turned from one side to the other. I found that it takes about 45 minutes for the other end to completely cool down again so the procedure can be repeated"

The image to the left is abit simple looking, but judging by the name of the title of the series of images, and the description taken from an extract below, it is of to adults tucked up in bed, until the child (red) comes in and spoils it by wriggling and keeping the adults awake.

"Next up: a visitor from the kids’ room. They start all sweet and cuddly, but their little bodies become more brazen by the minute."

These diagrams are very simple and hard to follow unless you have read the title and descriptions, but are still completely true, so instead of providing us with factual information, it is telling us information about are sleeping patterns, in a simple but humorous way, because at some stage we can all recall of being woken up by children, or being to hot.

Semiotic-Hostel

This is the DVD cover for a horror film called "Hostel." You know its a gorey horror film by looking at the cover.

The whole colour is done in a deep red, so is the whole wall been covered with a persons blood? then above it is an actual blood stain, splattered at the top of the cover, the title "hostel" is done in the same colour.

Then on the floor there is an image of a person chained to a chair which has fell over.

Then just to the bottom right is the top of somebody's head, you can't see the bottom of the head, or who it is, so it could be another person lay on the floor, or it could be the same persons head who is chained to the chair.

Then you realise the blood is from that individual, and judging by the amount of blood you realise that the head has probably been hacked off roughly.

Looking at what the person is wearing, it is very scruffy and dirty, giving the sign that he has probably been kidnapped and kept prisoner, and because he has been chained up, he has had no attempt to escape. After his death it looks like knowbody has cleaned up or made any effort to move him or clean up the blood, they are clearly not in a rush to get rid of any evidence. So they are hidden away and very secretive.

It also says on the dvd cover that it is an unseen edition, considering the unseen edition has the same cover as the normal edition, it isn't giving anything away on how gory it could be, and how much worse it is.

Semiotics-Slinkachu

This is a photograph taken by an artist who does street based illustrations and photography. He focuses on making little people

involving normal size things.

The main focus in these photos are the little people he has created, and what they are doing.

The photo I'm focusing on is the far left.

It is a vodka bottle with the sign "local council swimming pool." The signified is the people swimming in the "pool", the child waiting to go swimming, and the bottle itself representing the pool.

Because vodka looks the same as water, we can only guess that it is vodka because of the appearance of the bottle. The two people swimming in the pool look fully grown, so I'm presuming they are adults, but the person waiting has a rubber ring around their waste, and smaller, so by looking the clues are there that he is a child. A child waiting to swim in vodka?

which could be a message of underage drinking. He could be waiting there to go in, which would be illegal? or he might be waiting for a parent because he wasn't allowed in.

Another movie poster for the film District 9.

Showing a huge UFO suspended in mid air over a populated city in the distance.

At the front of the poster there is barbed wire protecting a run down area, almost like slums. At the front of the poster there is a sign with an alien on the front in a red circle saying "No humans allowed."

Then the name of the film and underneath the title says, "you are not welcome here."

The film itself is about aliens living on earth in makeshift wooden shacks, being looking after by the government because their spaceship is unable to fly, so they are living on earth in slums.

The sign is saying no humans allowed, meaning even though it is the humans planet, the aliens have taken over so much land and will not let humans enter and have made it their own. Just in the background is the humans city, which is where the aliens are forbidden. But in the picture they live side by side on earth, forbidding each other to enter their territory. Above the city is their spaceship, which is floating over the city. on the ratio of the picture it clearly shows that the aliens have taken over and everything on earth now revolves around the aliens, so they have taken over completely, only because they had to, because of the ship. In the film the aliens are given the nickname "prawns" because of the way they look.

As your watching the film you realise how unfairly the aliens are being treated by people, and by them having the nickname, I believe it also represents the way black people where/are treated by white people, and how they tried to separate them from society and gave them horrible racist nicknames. It is almost like a hidden message of racism.

Semiotics- The Human Centipede

This is the poster for a horror film released in America called The Human Centipede.

The signifiers in this poster is the human pressed up against the glass with the four hands underneath them with blood all over them, also pressed up against the glass. You can see a persons face pressed up against the glass which is conveying a look of shear terror.

When you look at the person on the poster you can only see that one person and the 2 sets of hands behind him with blood on, then by looking at then name of the film you can guess just enough to know that this film is full of torture and pain, and with the title"the human centipede, you know there is a reason you cant see there faces.

They are pressed up against a sort of pale green frosted window, which reminds me of something you would find in a hospital surgery, normally hospitals protect, cure, help people, but in this case the people are having the opposite done to them. It also connects in well to the plot of the film because the person doing this to them is a demented surgeon. The window also gives the message of horror, because you cant see them properly and they cant see you properly, they are trying to escape, but dont know where to go, and how to escape. So the frosted window also sort of represents there failed attempted of an escape, and that they are now trapped and pressed up against the window in hope of finding a way out.

People who would collect insects would place them into a jar to study them, this poster also resembles an insect collectors interest in some way. When bugs a re in jars they try and find a way out by crawling up the sides. This also looks like what the "human centipede" is trying to do, climb to find an escape route.

Semiotics

Semiotics- Is the study of signs and the messages in them, what they represent by what they signify.

This is a cover for an xbox game "naughty bear"

The signifiers in this poster are;

The naughty bear

The knife

The screaming bear (victim) in the reflection of the knife

The message in this poster is that the naughty bear is obviously going to kill the other bear, like there has been a chase if the naughty bear is breaking through a door to get to the victim bear.

But you dont know the reason naughty bear is going to kill the victim bear just by looking at the cover.

The Cover of the game is resembling a horror film, The Shining, and the famous "heres johnny!" scene. Which the cover of the game has also done, instead with cuddly teddy bears. The main text at the top of the cover is done in a child like typography, with upper case and lower case in random places in the text, to make it more childlike. The mixing between something like the childish writing and horror shows quite a big juxtaposition, because they have transformed a cute cuddly teddy into a psychopathic murderer.

Provocation

This advert is a provocation advert, even though it isnt a global campaign to stop smoking because of the risks of more

obvious and scary risks.

But it is provoking people to use and buy deoderant beacause otherwise they will sweat, not as bad as the man in the advert,

but it is abit of a disgusting advert thinking a man is eating a sandwich while being drenched in his friends sweat.

Its not a nice thought.

Illustration

This is another game trailer for the new game "Call of Duty Black Ops".

Even thought this is a trailer for a game it is very realistic in everyway. From the way the people look, to all the explosions.

It is just showing snippets of different things from the game representing a soldiers memories. At the start of the advert

there is a voice speaking to someone who is strapped down and struggling, you know this because the angle is 1st person, so your

looking through his eyes. When you are flashing through his memories they are awfully bright and more powerful than the beginning.

It is showing you glimpses of missions you will do on the game.

For a game trailer it is very realistic.

Digital

This advert is for a new xbox game coming out this year. The game is called "Naughty Bear" and is about a bear that is bullied by the

other bears that live on the island. The advert is showing you how his streak of naughtiness begins.

The whole advert is done in 3D as it is advertising the game footage, it is a very colourful advert, this is because the game is about teddy bears, which

are normally associated as cute and cuddly and friendly, so it is still giving the impression of everything being cute and lovely,

so you immediatley know that naughty bear dosnt fit in because of his appearence.