Amnesty Holiday

I am continuing to push my ideas for this project, I have been working on the side of the bus poster and trying to include some sort of typography in it. I have struggled with researching certain areas of this but I am sure that I will find the right layout to help me work towards my final pieces.

Amnesty Critique 1

I was a bit worried going into my crit today as I didn't have a solid idea for my project. I decided by having a half done piece to show the class maybe it would allow my class to give me some constructive criticism. I was working with info graphics, so I was trying to keep it simple. I found some of the criticism helpful, and that is what I took back with me this evening to try and improve how my poster looked. 

London exhibitions

So today I initially went to london to see my friends exhibition, because he was trying to raise money to go to florence to do a specialist fine art course. I managed to stumble across a couple of exhibitions on the way to the Tate gallery along the Southbanks. 

One was in the street on the work oxfam are doing in Africa, and how people were being effected by war and violence towards women. Ian Rankin had done the photography for the project, and there were these big prints in the street with some films about the people. 

There was this one lady who's husband had gone out to sell clothes and these guys killed him and took the corps into the woods, they then went after her and her son. But they had heard off a friend what had happened, and fled to her brothers. 

There was another exhibition in the oxo building, for a childhood charity. It was about these toys that children around the world had made for the exhibition I thought it was also pretty cool as a concept and another way of making people think about how people deal with the perception of charity's. 

My friends exhibition itself was really good. During the summer he had done a couple of paintings of me, so it was really good to see that one of the paintings had been published in a book he had made of his works. 

Hopefully next week I will be working on my concepts and ideas for the amnesty international because now I have enough research for the moment to get my ideas down onto paper. 

Barry

It's been a while since my last post, so I will try and bring you up to speed with my life... Last week we had a guy called Barry, from amnesty International. He came into uni to talk about his involvement with amnesty and advertising for there charity. I think he was quite helpful with the stuff he told us, in his big group speech to us. We were then split up into smaller groups to ask us to specific questions.. but ill be honest he went on a bit.... so he gave me some good ideas to think about for my project.

Apart from that we had a day project last week, called black box. We were each put into groups and then given a work that we had to make clues for our words so we could give it to the other group to make up there own minds on what we were describing.  Our group was give the words, 'dorset cereals' to gives clues for, while we had to guess 'Ecover, washing up liquid' through a crossword idea. As a group I think we worked pretty well, and believe we had a strong and fun final product to show for our days work. 

In the end we decided to make a television advert. We used our hands to make the item such as a cup, a plate, a knife and a fork to run away from the washing up liquid bottle. We did a bit of a photo shoot to generate ideas for a poster we also made, to go with the advert. 

Aside from the black box day, I have been frantically trying to write the 2000 word draft for our essay hand in which was 5 o clock on thursday. I was proud because I managed to finish it a whole day early. So I handed it in on Wednesday. 

This now gives me some time to really think about amnesty, and do that poster for the international college thing.   

Black Box

I was quite intrigued when we came in to class in the morning and I wasn't sure what to expect because it sounded like quite a difficult subject matter. Our group was given 'Dorset cereals' to give clues for. We decided that we would make a set of easy clues and a set of harder clues if the group didn't get what they were. 

Our group was given a crossword with some quite mixed clues on it. Some were easy, some were hard but once we had guessed some of them then we decided it was quite easy to guess the missing words. Our product we had to design a poster for was 'Ecover washing up liquid.' We didn't hesitate to get our ideas down onto paper. Our main idea was a film and using the on-campus halls to dress up as different eating utensils and running through each door, much like a scooby doo cartoon. In the end we thought the costumes would be to difficult to pull off on a large scale in the 3 hour period we had, so we used scaled utensils instead and used the halls sink as our stage. In the end I think our group had generated a really promising idea, I just wished we could have finished it.