Inspiration.

Fallout 3.

Fallout 3 takes place in the year 2277, 200 years after the nuclear apocalypse that devastated the in-game world.

The character is an inhabitant of Vault 101, a survival shelter designed to protect paying humans from the nuclear war. When the character's father disappears mysteriously, the player is forced to escape from the Vault and journey into the ruins of the wasteland to find him safe.

I've played this game and the sequel and the in game story and images have inspired me in my media project. I like the use of propaganda style posters and images, the game is based in a time after the expiration of the world and the world came to be how it is via nuclear fallout due to countries falling out and political disaster.

As me and matt have been inspired by Lupe Fiasco's political video I think this is something we would like to include in our video, and more specifically I would like to feature some wartime propaganda in my print work.

Because the games events have a political cause there is a lot of propaganda style posters in the game which I really like! So I definitely want to go along this route with my advert and CD cover.

Bioshock 1/2.

BioShock is a first-person shooter video game developed by 2K Boston BioShock is set during 1960, in Rapture, a fictional underwater dystopia city; its history is revealed to the player through in-game audio recordings scattered throughout the game. The underwater city was envisioned by Andrew Ryan, a successful business tycoon, his vision for the city was as a utopia to avoid the social oppression of the government and religion in the upper world.


Scientific progress flourished within Rapture after the discovery of a new form of sea slug by Dr. Bridgette Tenenbaum; stem cells from the slugs could be used to create ADAM, a plasmid that altered its user's DNA and grant them super-human powers like telekinesis and pyrogenesis. 

An industry for plasmids was created by Tenenbaum and Fontaine. To meet the growing demand, Tenenbaum devised a means for the sea slugs to be embedded in the stomachs of young girls from Fontaine's orphanages, named Little Sisters, producing large quantities of ADAM.


As plasmid use grew, a class division arose. Fontaine launched a war against Ryan using an army of plasmid-enhanced soldiers, but was apparently killed in the fight. 
Ultimately a complete breakdown of Rapture's society occurred on New Year's Eve of 1959 
The resulting war left few survivors. Those that remained alive barricaded themselves in isolated areas of Rapture, while the remaining civilians, having become deranged over time due to heavy ADAM use, wander Rapture looking for more ADAM to consume.

Because of the era in which the game was set the posters in game are similar to that of what I would hope to create myself for my print work, a wartime propaganda style. I am using these particular images to help influence my print work myself.

This is a quick mock-up of a propaganda style album cover I did for our album cover.