“Truth? Truth. Truth?” is the title given to this zine. The reason behind repeating “truth” three times with different punctuation at the end of the sentence is to create a confusing and a doubt kind of feel towards the audience. We as the society always having doubt on what we see and hear from the media. We are not sure either the facts shown are true or they are made up. Therefore, we are always in the confused situation about the truth.
Content page on the left side page and a little clarification note on the bottom right to avoid any conflict because different people will have different interpretation about this publication.
First subtopic, sight. It talks about what the controller sees and what media has done to the reality and at the end what the society sees.
On the left side of the page shows how and what the reality is. Black background is applied to show how dark the reality is but anyhow every fact can be seen clearly. Meanwhile on the right side of the page shows what is seen by the society after media controlled and filtered the contents. Grey font is applied to enhance the feel of “it is there but it is hard to be seen”. Red highlight is applied to emphasize the word and grab audience’s attention when they flip through the page.
The voices heard are often controlled by the media. The following pages shows the difference between what is actually heard by the media and what the media publised and those are the things heard by the society.
On the left side of the page shows what the politicians promised the society. It is achievable and there are only a few promises are made. Meanwhile on the right side of the page shows what media control has done to the voices of the politicians. What media showed the society is sweet promises that politicians never promised and also all these “we can� statement. A smaller font size is applied on the left side of the page compared to the right side of the page is to represent that things has been changed after going through media. Media made things sound nicer and more grand to the audiences’ ears.
Third subtopic, what is spoken. The controller often speak the truth including the negative part. However, what media has done to the spoken words is they cut off every negative speech and left only the positive part for the society to listen.
On the left side of the page shows what the politicians speak. They talked about positive and negative things. Candies are representing the sweet positive promises and propagandas they promised and the little medicine pills are representing the negative things they mentioned about. Meanwhile on the right side of the page shows what the media has done to the things politician said and promised. The media cuts away the negative parts of the things mentioned and only left the sweet promises for the society to listen. Therefore, what the society heard is always the positive things the politicians said and promised.
The conclusion and my own thoughts about media control and what the media has done to the society.
On the left side of the page shows what the media has done to us. They washed our mind and made the society think the way they wanted. The last sentence, “because looking at themselves is hard” is inverted to create an illusion of harder to read but it is still readable. Meanwhile on the right side of the page is a quote I came out with to refer to the politicians and the controller. The look through the glass is to show how clear is the glass and they are always judging people around them. However, they never look at the mirror is because they never judge themselves. They only talk bad about other people they never look at themselves if they are doing the same thing as what the others did.
COLOUR Black: To create a high contrast with white. Shows the evil and dark side of the controller. White: To create a high contrast with black Shows how innocent the society is. Red: To emphasis on the power and strength of certain party. To highlight on certain sentence in order to grab audiences’ attention.
ART STYLE Geometric straight lines: Every lines are linked to each other. To create an illusion as if everyone must unite in order to achieve something.
PAGE LAYOUT Black background page: To represent the controller’s / politician’s side. It is dark and evil but it is true. White background page: To represent the society’s side. It is innocent and pure.