The War of The Worlds was broadcast in America by CBS radio, as part of The Mercury Theater’s ‘On the Air’ series. The broadcast is an early example of a hybrid as it mixes conventions from H.G Wells’ science-fiction story together with a News / Documentary type broadcast. Roughly 80% of households in the US owned a radio at the time. There was a drama performance of War of The Worlds which was adapted to sound like a present day, live broadcast with no intervals and only having one announcement at the beginning to warn listeners that it was a play and not a real broadcast.

 The broadcast employs cultivation theory by using the codes and conventions of genuine news reports multiple times to convince the listener that what they are listening to is actually real, while also exposing, in the vein of Barthes, how the professionalism of news reports does not mean they are more truthful or trustworthy than any other information source can be. 

At the time of the broadcast American citizens will have been very on edge considering the events happening in the world around them; the anticipation of a second world war. The broadcast became famous for allegedly causing mass panic among its listeners however, many doubt the scale of panic that was claimed to have been made as the radio channel have relatively few listeners.

The War Of The Worlds is a historically significant media product as it was an early idea of how the media can persuade and effect peoples thoughts and views on the world around them and can influence a person’s thoughts and feelings .  Even though people are more aware of the role the media plays, people are still susceptible to believing it. 

I really like this style of music video with the ideas based around bikers. With my chosen song being up beat and called driving fast I thought I’d interpret that into motorbikes and being on the road.

Having a GoPro and a number of mounts I can record from various angles from a close to the floor (wheel height) to my head height (attached to my helmet). With also having a group of friends who ride I can record different footage of different scenes, different bikes and a variation of group and solo rides to fit in with the song.

• Pastiche : this is an artistic work or style which is similar to the work of another time period or artist in which they may have drawn inspiration.
• Bricolage : this is where a traditional object or language is given a new and subversive meaning and context.
• Intertextuality : the relationship between texts – especially literary ones
• Implosion : happens when an organisation or a system suddenly fails and collapses.
• Cultural appropriation : is the unacknowledged or inappropriate adoption of customs, ideologies and practices of a more typically more dominant society. Cultural appropriation is also called misappropriation.