Briefs

Returned to uni on monday to receive the first of many briefs this semester, it was titled Pictorial Narration and indicated that we would receive a myth, story, tale or legend which we would then have to communicate through the use of a visual language.

After the "unlucky" dip had revealed i had the story Scott of the Antarctic i knew i had to research straight away. I didn't have a clue who he was or what he had done but after some googling, i recovered some information which stated he and some others had participated in an exhibition to be the first to reach the South pole, although he reached the South Pole sadly he was beaten by the Norwegian Amundsen and die on his return.

Once familiar with the story i had to think of ways of communicating this story visually and was a little stumped as at this stage as was slightly confused as to what was expected of me, but after talking to one of the tutors i was left with a number of ideas to choose from. This included using weather symbols, morse code compasses, Norwegian or horse/greyhound racing symbols.

I decided that using racing symbols would probably communicate the story the best as it was a race after all and Scott's team started off using ponies (similar to horses) and Amundsen's team used Huskys (similar to greyhounds) after arriving at this conclusion i am now left with how i'm going to use this form of visual communication to illustrate the story so that it can be recognised but without being too obvious.

The second brief was titled "The origin of food" and was recieved after a lecture from a member of the SCRI who are interested in supporting sustainable development and the production of healthy and natural food.
After another "unlucky" dip i was left with barley which i was then told i had to research in depth and create a mood board for the following tuesday. The research had to include something about our food source which we found to be interesting so that we could then communicate it in an A2 broadsheet . Having the mood board complete for tuesday seemed to be an almost impossible task considering it was the first week back and a few nights out were definitely deserved. Despite this i have managed to complete my mood board but i am struggling to decide which information i can take forward for my broadsheet as the product barley fails to interest me. Although it does have alot of healing properties and has been considered a super food which i suppose is kind of interesting, least i still have another day to decide :).

The third and final brief we received this week was to design a new app for the iphone, this has to be the most exciting of the briefs although it comes with a downside and that downside being this task is virtually impossible. Apple already have an app which can do pretty much anything you could ever want. Can't remember where you parked your car, "there's an app for that" , want to learn another language, "there's an app for that", want to keep an eye on your finances, "there's an app for that", need a new recipe, "there's an app for that", what to know every single cheese there is and which wines best complement it and "there's even an app for that" so as exciting as this is its going to take some serious thought and who knows i might even be able to come up with an original and useful app.