Project 2 - Revolution Brainstorming

On the first day of the graphics pathway we began the day with watching a film on the type: 'Helvetica' this film featured the views of graphic designers, typographers and etc. of this type and their opinions on whether it is good or bad (such as Stefan Sagmeister and Neville Brody). Helvetica, as I learned is one of the most used types and can be seen almost everywhere within in the design world. I really enjoyed watching the different views on this topic and the passion some of designers had for the type as well as if they loathed it. It made me think about the way I decide on my typography in my own work and the impact that even a simply type might have on the overall piece.

After watching the film we were divided into our groups. I was put into group F which was made up of 6 people however on this day only two other people from my group was present. After we ha met each other the whole class came together to pick a 'word' which we would be creating a film with for the rest of the week. We got the word 'Revolution.' At first I wasn't sure what to make of this word as I knew there was many roots which would focus on power to the people. The other two people and me created a brainstorm of different ideas.

When we were brainstorming we wrote own everything that we thought of when we first thought of revolution - the first things that did come to mind were revolutions that took place in history - in fact this covered most of our brainstorm. We also looked into the definition of the word revolution so that we could see different ways of approaching it. For our second page we put down different ideas for the film. At first we looked into just using typography and audio from past revolutionary leaders to create a kinetic type film - however we decided that it would work better to use images to. I then suggested trying to play around with images by merging the revolutionary leaders together (e.g parts of speeches are merged together so that it would show how history has developed.) We then thought about using stop motion to aid our film because it could give it a unique style. We thought that hands have been used a lot within revolution - as well as symbolism as it had to e something that can be relatable to the audience - we wanted to place text on our hands for each revolution and then move it around to animate the movements.