Thursday 16 April 2015

Change in direction for presentation!

After my further research and consideration, I have decided to focus on the digital and internet side of this project for the presentation and final piece, rather than posters. This will give me more to talk about, more academic sources to find for the rest of my essay and more things to visualise into drawings for the poster. 

I still want to design it like the posters I looked at in the last post, so the two themes don't become too disconnected, and to help me keep it nice and simple but informative looking. I still want to screenprint it. 

IDEAS:
Take the comedic approach to the poster, or the serious?

Serious - like the informative posters you get in doctors surgeries about smoking or diabetes, but instead cold hard facts about how we use the internet nowadays and what direction this could possibly take us in. Probably a bit boring?!

Comedic - Laugh at what we have become due to the internet and exaggerate it. Things we are all guilty of on the internet, things we do digitally now instead of how we used to do it. 
Things to include:
Reading - E-books (what's a book/bookshop?!)
Networking - getting a handwritten letter in the post being an overly exciting and rare occasion
Exercising -  sitting on sofa and waving wrist at Wii
Phones - people get dents on their fingers from holding their Iphones too much instead of writing bumps now
Researching information - self diagnosing on internet and thinking your are dying, believing anything you read, searching cat videos all day instead of doing what you are meant to be doing. 
Physical problems - regression back to monkey posture because of sitting at computers for too long every day, eye strain, computer wrist (tendonitis) instead on tennis elbow, getting fat from relying on digital things to do stuff for us.

  • Take it even further and reflect on what relying on digital could do to us in the future; are we to become like the humans in WallE?! Babies and children can't write, but they can prod a screen perfectly easily, so why learn to hold a pen?! Could this actually ever happen, or are we freaking out about the new, as people have done many times in the past about new steps and technology e.g. Walter Benjamin and film?
  • Caricature; can I even do this?! Will have to try. 
I want my poster to be engaging and informative!

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