My motion comic Out of Control functions as a social critique on present contemporary society. Set in the near but not too distant future, Out of Control represents a society governed by Media control. Government no longer exists, instead society is run and controlled by the biggest Media conglomerate; Medicon. Their mission statement: 'The public must be barred from the managing of their own affairs and the means of information must be kept narrowly and rigidly controlled'.
Society remains unquestioning and seemingly brainwashed by this extreme 'democracy' and no longer understand the world as it once was. More reliant on the Media than ever before, society 'feeds' off the Media to survive, in doing so, every citizen surrenders their personal information and privacy; Medicon knows everything and will not back down until they do. Meet Smith, alone in this world, he's the only person who hasn't been brainwashed by the ever controlling Medicon despite being Medicon's Head Spin Doctor. Caught between the devil and the deep blue sea, he must either succumb to Medicon or finally speak his mind...
Influenced by the works of Chomsky, as well as the theories of 'Media control' and 'Behavioural psychology' I aim to explore how Western society in particular, has become imprisoned in a mediated cocoon. In doing so, suggesting that society has become and is heavily reliant on the Media to understand the world, where the Media has the ability in essence to control and influence the mind...
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