Visual Language: Plug Sockets 25

What if...ideas and work

What if....week 2

After more research,

we decided to concentrate on one aspect of homelessness and all agreed that it is impossible to try and solve homelessness eantirely.

We found that we had the most research on health of those who sleep rough.,


We managed to identify a problem and how to solve that.>>> written on the Rationale sheet

What if.....week 1

Brief: Establish a problem that affects some sector of the general public in Leeds. The solution must be resolved,designed and presented in the public domain.

Deliverables: compelling fact based evidence. Photogrpahic record of the solution

This brief is a group project and we were all put into a group of 6 accordingly to our initial themes from the previous brief: photogrpahy 100.

Each team member had similar themse to their photographs and that was our starting point.
Will Duffy, Hazel Gage, Nick Morgan, Maryem, Gemma and me.

Our themes were:
Contrasting colour
Dark, kight and things that shine bright in the night
Might-time, Close ups
Documenting Changes

After we were assigned to our groups, eacg memmer of our group went away and did our own research on what problems there are in Leeds. This was done mostly through, finding NEwspaper articles and the internet

We came up with a few main ideas that seem to be the most interesting and relevant.

Graffiti, Vandalism
Homelessness
Theft

The group decided to go with Homelessness. So, again, we all went and find our own indivual research to back up this problem.

From the group, we collected both primary and secondary research.
A questionaire was created and that can be accessed through


http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=211868771638&ref=mf

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/63HCKZK


One of our group members also spoke to a volunteer at the Crypt, a homeless centre in Leeds city centre


This is what we decided to do as the result of our research

Who? The general public
What? Informing and educating them about how to help the homeless
Why? Because there is a lack in knowledge of how to help, volunteers

How?? ....A high inpact poster??

We had a presentation on the Friday and pitched in our ideas,

The feedback suggested that there was a sufficient amount of research but a lot of people do already help and know how to ..so, intead of just informing , try to do something else?

We needed to find a niche in the market

The group went home and did more research over the weekend

No News Is Good News:Message and Delivery

Brief: 3 posters, a3 size, 2:1 format.

1 poster had to be completely a type based poster, 1 is purely image based and the third one will be of both.

We were allowed to use two colours plus stock.

Ideas of gone into this brief ( in my skecth book ) and this is a summary

I used the information I found in the previous research brief and I found this one fact that really interested me.

Every day in the UK 7 million slices of bread get thrown away.

So, I decided that my set of posters would be based on that fact

I also worked out that with that amount of bread, in one year UK wastes 2.5 slices of bread

and that can cover more than twice the area of Ethiopia....

And these are the final results of my posters

No News Is Good News:Message and Interpretation

Brief: 3 posters, a3 size, 2:1 format.

1 poster had to be completely a type based poster, 1 is purely image based and the third one will be of both.

We were allowed to use two colours plus stock.

Ideas of gone into this brief ( in my skecth book ) and this is a summary

I used the information I found in the previous research brief and I found this one fact that really interested me.

Every day in the UK 7 million slices of bread get thrown away.

So, I decided that my set of posters would be based on that fact

I also worked out that with that amount of bread, in one year UK wastes 2.5 slices of bread

and that can cover more than twice the area of Ethiopia....

And these are the final results of my posters

No News Is Good News:Research

The brief: create a body of research based upon a headline from a newspaper bought on 17th October 2009.

For this brief. I picked an article: "Buy one get one free later-Tesco changes offer to cut food waste"

So, the concept of this brief is about how super markets are taking actions to help prevent global warming.

I came up with several ideas on how to tackle this. We were asked to present ten and then narrow them down to three.

1. What are big supermarkets doing to reduce consumers waste eg. deals like buy one get one free later

2. Consumers waste and its effect on the environment

3 Are they really carbon conscience?... this is abot whether big super markets actually care or are they using this environmental issue to boost their popularity

After a lot of research. ( articles, journals, facts, WRAP statements ( waste and resources action programme)) We were asked to pick one idea to take to our necxt brief.

I decided, because I found alot of facts on how much wasting food is costing the earth, to take on the idea of consumers waste in the UK.