These two propaganda pieces use different styles but similar techniques. The first one, “Don’t let this beast steal your cookie” is similar to rhetoric in American politics surrounding the war on drugs. The background is an ai generated image of a dark disgusting street corner. This is a means to portray an otherwise harmless-looking individual […]
The first piece (the meme) works with multiple techniques to persuade people towards Basil Boulevard. The intentional vagueness and hyperbole of “CRUSHES” conveys a kind of bandwagon that many more people are with Basil Boulevard and the Puppets are a minority. The parenthetical text and image of the meme convey that the Puppets are in …
The characters in the propaganda posters I created are of fictional groups called Basil Boulevard and The Muppets. These are
In the fictional battle between Sesame Street and the Muppets, two very significant mediums of propaganda are stickers and posters. Inspired by the North Korean propaganda poster (first image) found with Google Images, I created the the Kermit the Frog Anti-Sesame Street propaganda poster utilizing ChatGPT: Another inspirational piece of… Read more“Propaganda Art of the Muppet -Sesame Street Wars”
Credits and Inspiration: “DREAM” Poster:Inspiration: Barack Obama’s “HOPE” Poster (2008)Created with obamapostermaker.com“VOTE FREEDOM” Poster:Inspiration: Mao Zedong “In The Heart Of The Revolution” Poster (1949)Created using Canva Explanation: I wanted to do two posters that had generally the same goal, but with the two different “parties”. Because of this, I decided to imagine that the Puppets […]
Down with Basil Street! Disclaimer: None of these are meant to be taken seriously. Also please do not sue me. Reflection: Once again I have resorted to Microsoft Designer to make some banger images for this project. Highly Recommended for image generation not containing writing. For the writing portions I used Canva to add mementos […]
We ended up going a bit of a different route for our advertisement. Instead of marketing a product we instead decided to make a tourism ad for colonial Virginia that reflected historic romanticization of the South. We also thought it would be interesting if we had a clip from a drama that talked about equal […]
Authors: Killian, Max, and Jack This project was super fun, and honestly Killian and Max’s talent when it came to doing the voice acting and accents was unreal and incredibly impressive. I did my best and I think I somewhat helped even though my southern accent could be a little shaky, or off pace. Killian’s […]
Sources: Music and Sound Effects from Pixabay.com:“Old Radio Sound” by Tissman. https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/old-radio-noise-46734/.“Door Knocking and Opening” by PTL_Joe. https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/door-knocking-and-opening-240831/.“Dark Bar” by cubercutie. https://pixabay.com/music/traditional-jazz-dark-bar-7386/. Bibliography:S.B. Goff’s