Today we were given the brief of this module and put into groups of 4 or 5 depending on the number of students.
We are required to produce an exhibition of our own work and design the theme of the exhibition, which is to be held in an empty unit in the Chelmsford shopping centre.
Our group got to work straight away by putting all our ideas into a mind map. What we came up with is listed below.
Invitees
Local Newspapers
Local design agencies
Local Radio
The general public
Advertising
Website
Free Ads - Local Newspaper
Radio
Mail Outs
Flyers
Stickers
Themes
"Behind Closed Doors" - Various sized doors, some on floor, some have nothing behind them
"Anti-Gallery" - No White walls, work not straight
"APOCALYPTIC" - A destroyed environment.
The Apocalyptic theme was instantly popular within our group, so we decided to research this idea further, and I think we have come up with some very powerful and unique ideas. For example.
- Graffiti on walls
- A Burnt out car! (with Police tape around it to prevent the public from touching it)
- Hazard tape around each individual exhibition
- A bent street lamp (to light the room)
- A burning skyline (painted/printed onto material then stuck on the wall)
- Using recycled objects to save money (serving drinks from a Jerry Can, using coffee jars as cups) - cheap and effective
- Victim's chalk outline on the floor (adds to the scene and easy to clean off)
1 Response to Deciding a Theme
Hi Craig,
Well done with the images and posters created for the exhibition. Still, I think you shouldn't limit yourself to the specific task given by your team leader. If you have the talent: use it! You can help the team out with ideas for presenting work in the exhibition, ideas for branding the show, invitations (how are you going to make them?). Start speaking with your team about how you are going to present next week. Also, where are the images of your visit to an exhibition? That was the task for this week and I don't see any information related to that. Remember this is your individual journal, your research, with images and ideas. If you don't have anything for me to mark you individually then your mark will be really low. Be sure of putting everything you find interesting and useful to support your team. Again, another concern that I have is I don't see anything related to the elaboration of your CV. Any plans?
See you in class.
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