Creative Apps

Chapter Eleven

I am looking at creative technology to improve my blogging and my method of research and organisation. There are lots of apps online to aid this. 

A mind-mapping and organisation tool such as Dipity can help plan ahead for a shoot or reminders and act as a simple calendar. It is also useful for looking back at projects and timed projects. It can also be used to search for the history of artists and their context.

This is a timeline created to represent Nirvana's career. It shows the key points in the band and their members life. It's helpful to discover the context of the band without searching through pages of wikipedia pages finding the key events. 

It also allows you to add events that you think are missing and view the timeline as a text or flip book to see the photos.

To create an original cartoon and slideshow PowToon is incredible simple and impressive looking application.

The home page is simple and easy to follow.

My final comic style creation is made with Make Believe Comix It's a fun way to express a subject or answer FAQ's.

Record Companies

Chapter Seven

Record companies stylise their artists to fit the general publics wants and needs. Eg- One direction were put together by Simon Cowell because there was an opening in the market for a cute, charismatic boy-band. One Direction play to the advantage of having five boys from different backgrounds, ethnicities, talents, looks and opinions. The record company have used the technique of 'Something for everyone.'

Paradox One

The star persona must be ordinary and extraordinary.

eg- girl next door vs crazy fashion sense.

Lady Gaga - She has her own problems, she has a life with her fiancee and family but she wears meat dresses.

This is Dyers Star Theory! Stars are CREATED.

The star system from Naamah Hill

Common Values Of Music Stardom

Chapter Six

Youthfulness

Rebellion

Sexual Magnetism

An Anti-Athoritarian Attitude

Originality

Creativity/Talent

Agression/Anger

A Disregard For Social Values Relating To Drugs, Sex and Polite Behaviour

Conspicuous Consumption Of Sex, Drugs, Booze and Material Goods

Success Against The Odds

The Paradox

Fundamentally, the star image is incoherent, that is incomplete and 'open'. Dyer says that this is because it is based upon two key paradoxes.

EG- Miley Cyrus, she has changed from a disney star to a quirky, mad, life-loving wild child.