Studio Brief 4 - Interim Crit

Crit

During the crit the group were asked whether they thought that the whole book should photocopied in black and white or include some colour as had been done in some of the mock up pages shown. It was suggested that it would be effective to have the whole publication in black and white, however someone also suggested that perhaps it could be photocopied on different types of paper e.g. neon paper. It was suggested that there could be different sections within the book with the prompts split into categories such as colour, photography, 3D etc. It was suggested that the different sections could potentially be differently coloured to show them visually. It was said that a contents page could be useful and should include a brief description of the purpose of the book to make it clear to the reader. As a title Handbook was suggested and it was also said that this booklet could potentially be more useful to the first years than any other information they receive at the beginning of the year, so the title would reflect / suggest how its something they would continue to come back to and use.

Other tasks that were suggested were: 
- Find a vibrating boundary
- Find a complementary colour
- draw with something else
- paint with fruit
- paint form taste
- find type 
- make a pinhole camera

Moving forward

After the crit it was decided that the book would focus mainly on ways of working i.e. processes and techniques, as these are more like prompts rather than whole tasks. Providing prompts will help people with a variety of briefs and they are more likely to be used as a reference rather than something they do once and don't come back to. With this in mind the phrasing of the prompts will have to be quite vague to allow for them to be interpreted and used in a wide context. Imagery that is used for the backgrounds should illustrate the prompt but should not suggest too much how something should be done as this could prevent the user from thinking and applying the prompts to things in their own way.