Analysis of the Spoken Word
This project development and the outcome was to develop our listening skills necessary to produce a piece of visual design for our project brief, both present, and future.
At the beginning of the brief, we had to listen to an audio track. Within this audio piece, it was vital to use this audio track as the foundation of our research to interpret and manipulate to create a finished image, resulting in picking an editorial publisher of our choice, which you can place and fit in their website.
Art direction - Miles Williams
Design - Miles Williams
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In the results of my research, I produced a cover page for the National Geographic magazine following the centenary (2018) of women’s success to vote in the UK, along with developing the image to attract attention to a new younger audience, sending a message, “Every trial defines you” that even in developing countries, women still are being objective ed and oppressed by men.
Using the image, I created a mock-up website of the outcome image as being on the National Geographic online.
After the Crit, the visual design outcome produced a split opinion, noticeably through how the eyes of Emmeline Pankhurst causes a misleading and sensitive offense due to cultural differences. Some students thought it looked she was wearing a bourkha.
I felt at best, I should further my research and development.
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The outcome I felt is very different compared to my first, National Geographic, where the medium communicates a different message. My first outcome was sending mixed messages, resulting in being very sensitive to other cultures and religious beliefs. However, I do agree that in developing countries, both religious and non-religious, women are being subjected to a sexual object cation. However, this image I’ve created for ID, I’m trying to make reference to Emmeline Pankhurst’s manifesto of suffrage and equal rights for women, what today we call Feminism, with a visual representation of the Suffragette’s colours.
The text “Same Sh*t, different era” communicates the long struggle women have had to face, by being treated differently and having to fight against patriarchy in the present world and diminishing phallocentric society.
For more information about my process, please visit my WordPress blog.
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