SB4 Initial Ideas 01

Studio Brief 04 - Reflective Practice - Speaking From Experience

'Produce a graphic response/ graphic product /piece of work that makes a statement, comment, observation or gives advice about your experience on your first year of this course.
Work with any appropriate media or format and develop and identify the content will be entertaining, advisory or informative.

• Use the blank brief template to define your own aims, outcomes and processes.
• Take advantage of the processes and facilities you have been introduced to throughout level 04.
• The content of you final resolution should be appropriate to Level 4 freshers but also showcase the facilities and resources available at LCA.
• Enjoy the process of reviewing your year.
• On going documentation of your research, development and evaluation should be regularly recorded on your blog.

I decided to brainstorm a few ideas, in terms of what I could create as well as things I found difficult as a first year:

I then joined a group with Sophia and Josh and we brainstormed together, as well as asking people what they found hard, and looking at forums etc for students. The main advice out there is to relax and try to have a good time, so we decided to look at creating a game for the 1st years.  We decided on a Guess Who game that would help them learn staffs names. With this we went into experimentation of how we could create the characters - we didn't just want photographs as there is no personal or design touch to this.

Collaging worked well to disguise the person yet them still be recognisable however in terms of asking questions about their features it would be rather tricky. Continuous lines have the same issue, it is hard to notice real features with this style of drawing, the reason for this style being a lot of foundation students will have experience with it and therefore will recognise something familiar.