My proposals for part two of my project were mostly similar. My main interest was space, which I valued as an 'underappreciated' part of society, I wanted to highlight this in a way that was my style. My ideas relied on using Photoshop/online software to create something that would present data found in space in a visually pleasing way, particularly things that I would find valuable or interesting - my target being the wider public, maybe as a wider campaign to get people more interested in astronomy.
1 - Infographics in Space
A visual represetation of data to promote the discoveries in space; an underappreciated section of our world. Use to make data more visual and eye-catching to our broader society in a campaign to make us more aware of the area out of Earth
2 - Motion Graphics
A visual representation of space, data and information prepared for motion video, web or graphics makes data look visually beautiful and allows full exploration of data.
3 - Self Portrait Map
A map, taken in the physical or literal sense, to express or explore my personality in its enterity. Visually explain self through graphics as a whole, including life, friends, family or interests.
4 - Social Media
As something we do not value as society enough, Facebook has over 1.7 billion users - at least 1/6th of the global population. Explore and present either a personal response or not to this, wether that would be motion graphics or design - social media is a huge way of communication and a way we express ourselves openly online.
When creating the proposals I wanted them to look like a live brief - the words were chosen so it would look as if someone had given me the idea to respond to. I chose the first (Infographics in Space) proposal, this was the one that I could see myself doing and had the most research in my sketchbook to back up my work. My ideas were already in my head for what I wanted to do: create posters, possibility animated, that would re-spark the love of astronomy.
Initially motion was my focus of interest, I opted to present my pitch as a work book with pages of development in - having been told by John that it would be better to pitch with different designs, this was my reasoning behind it. Overall I'm glad I went down the workbook route as this makes it easier and more creative for me to present a few different designs and to just animate one poster, this would make a more interesting pitch than just going behind one set layout.
