Research Task

Task 2

I have been a given the theme recycling, on which I have to carry out a set of investigations to show how recycling is used in a film, literature, game illustration, animation and artist/designer that uses recycling as a media. I will also use these as a reference.

Film

Mad max(1979) is a Australian dystopian action film directed by George Miller, written by Miller and Byron Kennedy over the original script by James McCausland, starring Mel Gibson.
As the Earth's oil supplies are being exhausted, law and order has begun to break down due to energy shortages. A Berserk motorcycle gang member named Crawford "Nightrider" Montizano, having killed a Main Force Patrol (MFP) officer while escaping police custody, is attempting to outrun the other MFP officers in a stolen Pursuit Special. The whole world is suffering in an environmental and economical disaster and they forced to recycled and reuse things such as Armour, weapons and transportation, even houses or villages completely made out of scrap metal or any other reusable content.           Visit this website for more information on this film

 

Literature

I used this website that focuses on recycling and found poems which use recycling as a source of inspiration.Here is one piece of poetry off the website.

"Reduce Reuse Recycle Recycle... 
recycle Reduce Reuse Recycle 
It's easy to do Cause your trash And my trash Make up way Too much trash 
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Its easy to do!"

This short piece of literacy repeats and reuses it words just like recycling is reusing materials. Also uses relevant language such as "reduce" "reuse" and "recycle".

Game

I have used the game Borderlands as it closely resembles Mad max, as it too is set in a dystopian future. Not as much the clothing and weapons in borderlands look recycled but some of the towns and environments certainly look distressed and use some sort of "scrap" or recycled looking element.

Borderlands Official Website

Art and the Designer

Aurora Robson was born in Toronto, Canada in 1972 but grew up in Hawaii and has lived in New York for 20 years. She has a BA in Visual Art & Art History from Columbia University and is a certified structural welder. Robson currently lives and works in Brooklyn with her husband, cinematographer Marshall Coles and daughter Ona.

Robson uses everyday waste such as discarded plastic bottles and junk mail to create intricate sculptures, installations, and collages. Over the years, Robson has intercepted tens of thousands of bottles, saving them from their ultimate destination at the landfill or costly recycling plants. The fate of her junk mail follows a similar path and have now become part of her stunning ink collages.Her art almost looks unrecognizable as parts of plastic bottles and other recycled materials. Some of Robsons pieces (like this one) look or resemble flowers and look very natural using vivid colors and shapes.                    Visit this website for more pictures and information

Animation

This short Animation uses paper and hand sketched drawings, everything in this animation looks drawn or is ether made out of paper and the importance of this animation is to show that paper comes from trees and wasting paper is effectively killing trees.  Noiseker's Channel

Video Game Time Line

Pong is believed to be the first commercial game ever, based  on a tennis style the players simply bat the ball back and forth. Made by Allan Alcorn in 1972 working for Atari

 Grand trak 10 first racing arcade game released in 1974 it was also first to use ROM. Made by Atari the player raced against the clock, accumulating as many points as possible.

Break is the early version of brick breaker which blackberry uses as a game on there phones. Made by Steve jobs and Steve Wozinak the co founders of apple in 1976. The player fires bricks to break blocks which gain points.

Nintendor released the colour TU in 1977 packing 6 different varitions of PONG tennis.

   

Notable released space invaders in 1978 which is considered the first flight simulator for a commercial console. The player has to shoot and dodge alien space ships accumulating as many points as possible.

Mattel releases the intelliusion console in 1980, a total of 125 games game out during its lifetime.

Notable releases donkey kong frogger in 1981 for the Nintendo, the player focuses on manoeuvring the main character across a series of platforms while dodging and jumping over obstacles accumulating as many points as possible.

 Saga released the SG-1000 to japanese market, its only ever reached minor success. 1983

With their first venture into games Microsoft releases the Xbox, this sold 24million units sold world wide.

Skyrim was released in 2011 by Bethesda, it sold 7millions copies in the first week and its considered the world’s biggest SandBox game of its era. The player creates a character which he or she can do missions around the big map Bethesda has provided.

Grand theft auto was released in 2013 by rockstar games, it was awarded numerous awards before it was even released. Officially released on September 17, the open world crime game sold 11.21 million copies and generated £511.8 million in its first 24 hours on sale.