Music Advertisers Mood Board

My music advertisers board consists of KFC, BBC, Burger King, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, Facebook, Twitter, Aunt Bessie’s, Warp Records, Ghostly International, Amazon, Apple, Android, McDonalds, Dell, Subway, AnglianBus, Konectbus, Triple Velvet, Arriva, Google, Stagecoach, Andrex, Abellio Greater Anglia, First Group, HP, Microsoft, YouTube, Pepsi, Coca Cola and Lloyds Bank.

Why?? Why so many of such a variety?!

Randomness. My music and taste appeals to anything and everything that can tolerate it. Songs about banking, buses, technology, media, 80s stuff, food, drink, marketing, Yorkshire puddings, TV and toilet rolls… they all associate with at least one or two of the brands listed. Google? Technology. Dell? Computers. KFC? Food. Triple Velvet? Toilet rolls.  AnglianBus? Public transport subsidy withdrawal—uh, buses. Buses. Yes, buses. What? Subsidy withdrawal? What do you mean? I never said anything about a subsidy withdrawal!

My strange tracks appeal to random brands and can be advertised through them. Warp Records and Ghostly International are two labels I could distribute my music through, so they could advertise the music and any extras too. Meanwhile, music and stuff can be advertised on Velvet and Andrex packaging, ensuring that three trees are replanted for every one used and that dogs are given more rights to existence. After all, there will eventually be tracks about dogs and trees that will change the dynamics of everything we understand.

Sanity withdrawal permits for my imagination to create explosive tits, 69 tracks in 42 hours, Yorkshire puddings in Dorset server rooms and, of course, this mood board. I don’t do drugs, I’m just socially rejected and I need to get friends, hug them all loads and maintain my virginity for as long as possible. This way, brand and labels will want to advertise my music as well as myself and other artists.

Music Mood Board

My music board consists of a synthesizer, Rubik’s Cube, NES controller, IBM PC, 80s brick phone, Q*bert arcade machine, VHS, gay sign, CRT television, the DeLorean Time Machine from Back to the Future, rabbits humping, an Optare Solo (type of bus), Eddy Wally winking (as part of the ‘wow’ Internet and montage parody meme), more rabbits humping, what looks like one of many front covers of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, yet another rabbit humping a balloon, hitmarkers, pills, Doritos, Mountain Dew and the MLG logo.

That’s rather a lot for a music board. And the most interesting part of all this? Half of all this is actually relevant to the music I produce, while the rest is based around the music I listen to. The 80s stuff is relevant because the genres of music at that time still have an influence on listeners today, and it has certainly taken its toll on me. When I think of an arcade machine, old PC, gaming console or television and VHS, all being from the 80s, I think of 80s and 90s synthwave. When I listen to such music, I think of these things in operation, along with flashy laser grids and animations.

In regards to the humping rabbits and the MLG stuff, I think of these when I produce my awful glitch music. Off-beat samples and loops running to rabbit sex provides a unique insight into my imagination, and I feel that I am able to express my insanity this way so that I don’t have to draw attention to myself in reality. There is also the front cover for the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, which is relevant because it clearly states that the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is 42. The only problem is that nobody knows what the question is… I don’t even know myself! The answer has simply been calculated over 7.5 million years by a supercomputer called Deep Thought. That is all we know.

I like to be different and wild. Not wild like I’m desperate for sex like a lot of contemporary British teenage boys are, but instead begging for hugs and cuddles while trying to avoid implying that I fondle myself to the thought of bed snuggles with the person in question of whom I am hugging or cuddling. The contents I have put in my mood board are just a fraction of what I think about when I am in these situations or circumstances, or when I am producing or listening to music.

Preliminary Task: Student Magazine Q&A

Analysis of the specified results

The results I have appear to be commonplace, but there is a contradictory answer with the first question.

Students are happy to pay nothing for a monthly or termly distributed magazine from the reception or coffee shop with red, white and black colours that are eye-catching, especially if it contains updates for revision, competitions, music, fashion and food, and they are happy to get the magazine if it contains free stuff, since freebies are just awesome. They are happy to see themselves and others with their work on the front cover, and they also want it to be multi-platform so they can share the magazine with friends on Facebook. They will even permit for relevant advertising in the magazine.

Yet 90% of all students do not, or would probably not, read the magazine anyway. So what is the use of distributing a student’s college magazine if so few people are interested in reading it? They expect so much from it, but when it comes around they were never interested in the first place. By using these results, it is possible that the magazine could be revamped into a whole new thing, enforcing ideas provided by the students, for the students. This gives the magazine a new lease of life and an opportunity to rescue its positive reputation among the students.

It is possible to put effort into this magazine to revive it, and with (mostly) approximate results relating to what the students want, its revamp and return could be a success.

Preliminary Task: Analysis

Preliminary Task: Front Cover and Contents