I wanted to incorporate the gif that I had made earlier in this project into my final poster because I think it has a strong visual impact. It is also of London which adds to the reliability of the design. I changed the text to say 'The edge of disaster' and added a tsunami in the background of the city, to look like it is about to hit. I made several variations of this design because I wanted to see which worked the best.
I also wanted to try out a couple of the other designs I had made. The first one I made was of earth tied to some dynamite. If I was to animate this poster I would make the earth explode. The second poster I made was all about the earth being ill and how we can't undo the years of damage that has been done to it.
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The above images are taken from my sketchbook, they show the initial ideas that I had for my poster design. Most of the designs that I came up with had a maximum of 4 colours and were quite simplistic in their design. I found that wen asking which ones other people liked, it was the simple cartoons that proved the most successful.
The main cause of the increased number of natural disasters in recent years is climate change. Scientists have been tracking and researching this since the mid 1900's. Although climate change and natural disasters are being talked about all over the world I want to contribute to the effort and base my project on them. Some of the factors that I could possibly touch on include:
I wanted to look at what work other people had done in relation to this topic. For my final outcome I am going to creating a gif, so I went to giphy.com, below are the results. I think the above gifs work well because with little to no writing they illustrate climate change and some of the effects that it can have. I think for this topic the simpler gifs work the best because they are to the point and are still easy to interpret. I also think that cartoon style gifs, with bright colours will work the best for my outcome. They are more eyecatching and generally received the best.
Following in the path of hurricane Harvey, Irma quickly became a category 5 hurricane with wind speeds of up to 185mph and a width of 800 miles. Initially scientists thought that it would not be as big and powerful as it was but the warm ocean increased its power dramatically.
The above images and videos were taken of the hurricane on the 10th September 2017 from a holiday resort in Florida. They show just a tiny snippet of the effects and destruction caused by Irma. With tourists being told to stay inside the hotel for their own safety, due to knocked down power cables and other debris, allowing the emergency services the space and time needed to ensure the streets were safe for citizens.
Recently there have been numerous natural disasters occurring all over the world. I wanted to change the direction of my project to create a piece of work that brings this to light (not just the major ones but some of the smaller ones that don't get reported). Such as the hurricane that hit Zimbabwe at the beginning of the year, killing 117, the floods in China that has killed over 144 people and, more recently, the earthquake that hit Mexico City on September 19th, with confirmed deaths of over 225 people. A book written by Stephen Flynn entitled 'The Edge of Disaster' touches on the topic of resilience that is needed in a world where terrorism is rife and natural disasters are becoming more and more frequent. In it he talks about how we have been neglecting the earth's infrastructure and it is now crumbling as a result. I think that this book highlights some of the key factors that I want to bring to light in this project. I had the idea of basing my project on abandoned places, relating it to the theme by 'the edge of destruction'. A lot of the abandoned places that I found were either destroyed or I was unable to gain access to. However I did find some that I could take photos of. These photos were taken at two separate locations, the tower was at Caterham Valley and the ammunition store was at Boxhill. It was interesting to see both of these locations as both were different in regards to size and accessibility. Both however had litter scattered around them and were overgrown with plants (which is expected of abandoned buildings). Another angle that I wanted to explore was the idea of being on the edge of childhood and how children are very creative, which can get lost as they grow up. The below pictures are of drawings created by a 8 year old, expressing what was on her mind at the time. After looking at these images I wanted to take something that is recognisable as something that children do such as leaving handprints and getting their handprints moulded, and turn it into a picture that summed up childhood. I put the handprint on different backgrounds to test which one was the most appropriate. Out of the backgrounds that I tried, I think the yellow and purple ones work the best. The bright colours illustrate the playfulness and energy of children, whereas the wooden background makes the handprint seem a lot more mature.
I wanted to incorporate music into my process in some way because it is something that I constantly find inspiration from. When looking into this project I came across a list of songs that include the edge in their title. I remembered a workshop that we did in first year where we had some music playing and had to draw to it, using the songs as inspiration. I thought that I would try this technique out again and create a page filled with illustrations showing my reactions to the music on this list. Below are the results.
The next thing I wanted to do was check social media sites such as Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr. This was to check whether there were any tags for the phrase 'The Edge'. When I first did this I got back a lot of results relating to U2, so I decided to just search the word 'edge' to get a more varied result. Tumblr: Instagram: Twitter: Pinterest: The majority of the results that I received were photographs of cliffs and cities (showing the literal edges of them). Despite changing the term that I searched I still received a few U2 photographs, however most of these were professional and not taken from mobiles. I think that the results from Pinterest will help me the most because a lot of them were of artwork that can inspire me where as the other websites showed more photography based images. The only website that I don't think will help me to further my project is the Tumblr. This is because they were mainly focussed on comedy and were very random, meaning that they did not really pertain to my project. On the breif for this project one of the suggestions for what we could do was the literal interpretation of the phrase (taking photos of the edge of objects). I wanted to explore this idea but wanted to take pictures that would mask what the object itself was. I did this by zooming in really close to the objects. I then wanted to see what would happen if I took multiple pictures of the same object but moved the camera slightly each time. The below three images are all of the same object, the two images below that are a different object, but still both of the same one.
One of the first things that I do when given a new brief is to brainstorm all of my ideas, so that I can add to and look back at them throughout the project. Below are the results of that brainstorm: This then led me to look further at some of the areas, compiling a list of sayings and films surrounding the phrase 'The Edge' many of which can be illustrated. Although not all of them use the exact phrase, they all can be related to it in some way. From these sayings I created some gifs to illustrate them.
Looking over the brief for this topic was a bit daunting, mainly because of the endless ways that it could be interpreted. With an outcome that can come in any form of digital graphic design, allowing the opportunity to revisit methods that we had used before or to completely try something new.
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