A2 Media

After much debate me and James have come to a decision about the type of research we are going to undergo, and we have had many thoughts and ideas about the actual final piece itself these ideas will be posted at a later date. So far we have begun to look at many videos and album covers from the "metal" genre particularly bands that have actually influenced the band "Vortex", of which we are basing our project around. So far we have looked mainly at album covers and a few videos from bands such as Evile, slayer, metallica and Anthrax each of these bands are quite popular and so gives us more material to browse through and look at. We have also began to look at the magazine "Terroizer" a cult metal magazine, in order to try and see what album adverts look like so we can get a good idea of how to produce our and what our advert should look like. Also when we have looked in depth at some of the album covers typical of the genre we have seen that the artwork shown on some of these album covers could be very difficult for us to reproduce and upon further study of the genre we did fine some album artworks that were simpler yet still effective and so this type would be more adequate for us being that neither me or James are particularly specialised in art. Later on we will begin to post amongst both our blogs different albums, posters and music videos that we will most likely take influence from and that we can utilize to make sure that our final piece fits the codes and conventions of the genre.