Week Two

Over the course of the past week, I had been doing some research into multiple different 'milestones' or events that I could do for this brief. The ones I had mainly looked into were the Hawkes Bay Earthquake, the 1918 Influenza Pandemic, as well as looking into the Mount Erebus Disaster.

We spent the class discussing these with one another, and then trying to come up with ways we would be able to represent our data sets that we had.

Initially I was quite set on doing the Influenza Pandemic, and using data sets around the number of deaths, and different nationalities, speed of the disease spreading etc. This could then expand throughout the narrative by looking at how the disease initially arrived in New Zealand, and the timeline of it arriving until it died out.

Since I was still not fully convinced that this is what I wanted to research, I continued to research and try to find data sets during the rest of the class. The more I researched, the more I became intrigued by the Mount Erebus plane crash.

Not only did the whole thing intrigue me in general, I found it interesting that I hadn't really heard much about it despite it being New Zealand's deadliest peacetime disaster, claiming 257 lives. Even more deaths than during the Hawkes Bay Earthquake. I also really liked how well documented it was, with all of the transcripts from the flight being printed, as well as intended flight paths and co-ordinates etc.

By next week we have been asked to have roughly 5 different ways of interpreting these data sets in A3 posters, since this whole brief comes to an end pretty quickly. I want to make sure I have some solid concepts, considering we technically only have two feedback sessions before the final poster hand-in. One next week, and then another critique the following week with both Annette and Klaus.

I'm looking forward to solidifying my concept and am excited to start working on designing some poster concepts and seeing what I can come up with.