Week 2, session 2

We started class today in pairs; showing each other our 2x a5 sketches and giving feedback to one another. I am personally really rough with thumbnails and sketching and I felt overwhelmed when we moved to look at some other people's. I also felt like I was probably a bit behind in terms of reasearch as my ideas pool was a bit dry which is not good at the start of the paper! I am thinking about creating a "pro-public logo" to use on my poster designs to make it like it's coming from an organisation. I also find that pastiche/parody are really effective - and remembered the image from yesterday with the google search bar - and I think using things that have familiarity to audiences is a good strategy. In terms of my composition I definitely need to consider the FADP's more and the rhetoric devices we've been learning.

We then moved onto another fun exercise. This time being grouped with people we hadn't worked with and being given a kitchen utensil and then having to write down all the things it could be or do. Not just practical but impractical, and not human (eg. what could it be to a bug), and it was really bizarre but also kind of interesting. My group had a whisk and we came up with some really cool and whacky things like an amputee leg for animals, or a bubble blower, or a playground for an ant. We shared these on the board and then looking at a different groups list had to thumbnail sketch their utensil being used with their new idea.

Next we discussed "making the familiar unfamiliar". One of the ideas for doing this was zooming so we then proceeded to do a few more thumbnail sketches trying to use this technique. The next hand out was about Word + Image and how the 2 need to work together and interact. With 3 key mentions of: achieving synergy not redundancy, letting the audience do some of the work, and staying on strategy. Then it was time for individual studio work with Jacquie and Phoebe coming around to talk to each of us individually about how we are going with the project.
Jacquie sat down to talk to me and we discussed my experience at public school as that influences how/why i feel the way I do. She then suggested that I get into doing a lot more research both about my argument (the pro's) and the counter argument (the neg's).

Homework:
4x A3 concepts for interim