5.2 12/8

Tutor feedback

• The sketched style is working well with the tone of my poster.
• I need to work on the composition
• Go back to FADPs
• Scale, contrast, visual flow.

Brainstorming new compositions:

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Implementing good compositions:

4.2 5/8

Peer Review

• We peer reviewed the work that we had done after interim,  narrowing down our choices to choose one concept to carry on with. After developing my 'facebook window' and the 'twitter' concept and starting to mock them up on the computer, I really think that the twitter one is going to be more effective as a poster. When I show all of my ideas to people, the twitter one always really stands out to them. I would really prefer not to use the word 'shit' in my final poster, so I think I would like to try and find a way to use different words, or maybe use it in a more subtle way.

4.1 4/8 INTERIM 1

Group critique
Today we got into groups and discussed our 4 developed concepts
The people in my group really liked my window concept and my shitty thoughts concept

Summary of feedback

-Facebook window

• it looks like it may be an advertisement for Facebook
• looks like a puzzle piece
• swap the window ares to be the space around the f, rather than the f itself
• put the text in between the connections
• too much white space
• like the window concept
• it's welcoming
• feels connective and social
• look at artist renee margritte for window

-Shitty thoughts

• needs to be more shocking
• put something inside the droplets
• just one bird
• the drops could be thought bubbles or bombs
• "don't crap on someone's day"
• size, scale, keep shape

-Social Experimentation

• mouse wheel, cheese
• mouse maze
• compare to a computer mouse

-Plenty of fish in the sea

• Change slogan to 'socialise offline'

3.2 29/7

6 hats
The 6 hats exercise gave us a tool to think from different perspectives.
I was in the white hat group, which had to talk about sugar-free jellybeans in a neutral factual way.
Our group was pretty quiet and we didn't talk much so I don't feel like I gained much from this exercise, but i brainstormed some ideas to do with my own topic and i will definitely carry on with this when i get stuck later on in the week.

Studio time
In studio time I determined about 4 ideas that I will work on and develop over the week until critique. I have the "window to connection", the "social experiment", the "twitter shit", the "be someone new", and the"school of fish".

2.1 21/7

Class exercise today was to gather our images that we had collected and group them into categories.  Through the exercise me and my partner realised that we had done well with gathering imagery that more abstractly represented ideas around the topic. But we missed out on the tangible imagery. We had forgotten to include the actual devices in our imagery.

We then looked at juxtaposition, subversion/addition, and pastiche/parody. We analysed some images according to these persuasive techniques.

In studio time we came up with some of our own examples of juxtaposition, subversion/addition, and pastiche/parody.

1.2 15/7

Discussing our research from the previous day with other people was good to solidify the findings.
A lot of people seemed to have seen heaps of people using social media and technology excessively.

Debate:
The debate was really good fun and extremely helpful. I was arguing for social media, social media is social. This is the topic i was probably going to choose anyway and looking further into it through the debate made me passionate about the subject.
Our team managed to win the debate with some pretty great points.

After class i started some research on studies to do with social media, I am thinking of focussing on how social media is an enhancement to our everyday life. Social media is part of life rather than a separate life. I took notes in my workbook and these are some of the websites i went to:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2802563/

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0007681309000329

http://www.blogher.com/not-buying-negativity-boston-globe-six-ways-social-media-enhances-your-life

http://www.blogher.com/not-buying-negativity-boston-globe-six-ways-social-media-enhances-your-life?page=0,1

http://www.blogher.com/are-we-losing-friendships-over-social-media

http://www.blogher.com/when-social-media-used-weapon

http://www.iacpsocialmedia.org/Portals/1/documents/2013SurveyResults.pdf

http://www.pewinternet.org/2013/12/30/social-media-update-2013/

http://www.journalism.org/2013/11/14/news-use-across-social-media-platforms/