For today's session, Klaus was coming in to help critique at our interim presentation. He was coming into class about an hour into the session, which gave us time to get some critique from our peers first.
For class today, I brought in a far more refined version of my poster, which I am really happy with. I got a whole heap of good critique from my peers, Annette, and Klaus.
The main feedback I got was that it was super clear on what it was about. It was easy to understand that the plane was showing a crash, the blues and whites suggesting an arctic/snowy setting, while the crosses then suggested death.
There are a few minor changes to make, such as playing around with separating the crew/passengers slightly in the New Zealander deaths section, and then obviously I will go through and kern the headings to make them perfect.
I'm looking forward to next week's presentation to see how everyone develops their posters across the next week.
I have attached the poster from my interim presentation below.
Over the past week I have been working on a whole bunch of concepts in preparation for today's class. We were asked to have around 3-5 variations of a poster concept in order to present at today's class.
Bearing in mind that there is only two weeks until hand-in, it was crucial to get critiques this week, so that you still have one more critique next week. I was surprised at how many people decided not to present anything, which meant they would only get one critique before the final hand-in which doesn't seem like anywhere near enough to get a well refined poster.
I presented a few different variations, my few strongest ones, from the bunch that I had printed out over the past week. I got some helpful feedback from Annette during the class which has steered me in the right direction.
Annette liked the use of crosses as the symbols, although said that although the colour palette suggests death, there is nothing about the colours or symbols used to suggest it is about a plane crash in Antarctica. She suggested trying to make it so it is super easy to understand what it is about right from the start. People should be able to have a strong idea of what the poster is about without needing read the text. The text is just there to further inform them on the disaster.
I stayed around for a bit after class and started developing the next concept, using a lot of blues and whites to help represent Antarctica and Mt. Erebus. I already like the way that this is developing, and am looking forward to how it develops in the coming weeks.
All of these have been printed out and placed in my physical workbook for hand-in.
I have also attached a couple of these initial concepts below:
