The main feed back that came back from the crit was that the 'hang man' ideas where perhaps too much , and had a too brutal approach for a commercial illustration. Even though it is communicating a hit in the face image, it need to be more subtle and have a lot less brutality. The audience for news papers is predominantly adult so having really obvious things in the image isn't really that nessery and the veiwer should be allowed to decode the image. I have been making my images too obvious. However the Chess idea seems to work well , but dose need more development. People generally liked the composition of the test prints I did and they got a sense of it being not too dark which was preferred.
Also to consider when producing finals , with trying to tackle such a sensitive and important issue to loads of people, I need to make sure that the work communicates the way I need it to as to avoid causing offence.
Other factors to improve:
- keep playing with simple textres.
- Start to work in colour and consider shape. Is there anyway to show hanging without showing the person? through shadow ?
- Steer away from figures and think purely symbols, again a more subtle way of depicting intense issues without handing the veiwer all of the information at once.
I find the process of roughing hard and , I am not so sure how productive it is to me when I am trying to create images. I would prefer just playing and experimenting loads and pulling ideas from that and working from there. I also find it quite restrictive, and I aim to find a way of planning and thinking of ideas in a less restrictive way.
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