Week 1 - Session 2

Understanding the brief, Visual Rhetoric and Thumbnail Sketching

We discussed the requirements of the brief further. Then we were asked to do a reverse brief that would help to guide our project. I found that writing down the ideas in the reverse brief helped to clarify parts that we wanted to express through our multi media project. This will advance our project as we will be able to see what we want to achieve more clearly.

We also re-discussed ihi and wehi in terms of visual rhetoric. It helped to refresh what we learnt in the last project and be able to incorporate it into this project. Ihi and wehi should help to advance the project as visual metaphors provide a stronger meaning to images and the project is wanting us to create a persuasive multi media project.

We decided we wanted to explore the event of Beach Clean ups after researching the events for Homework. We then went on to develop some initial thumbnails for possible imagery we could use using visual rhetoric. I found that sketching some images helped to get out some ideas that I had in mind. Maybe continuing with the thumbnails for homework may help me figure out some more ideas and imagery we could use. Also, resourcing some examples of visual styles,drawings,marks,imagery could help to inspire more thumbnails that I could later refine.