Ok that first blog is very long and detailed so here is the outline of my project put very simply!;
-Exploring the printed media's fascination with schadenfreude, by collecting cuttings from 1 month's worth of news.
-Designing their graphic, blocked shapes into 3 posters colour categorised by; comedy, jealsousy and justice.
-Placed in a photographic gallery space for visitors to participate in choosing to witness visually one of the stories by means of basic moving image.
-Their reactions would be recorded photographically to be exhibited back into the space and as new material for short stop-frame films.
I hope this is much clearer!
Feedback appreciated.
Tara
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Thanks, mailing initially clearer...I just need the concept to settle a little and shoudl confess that I'm not quite getting the point of converting news clips into posters then into a gallery and then onto film.
I'm mostly concerned that you think you might have a formula for surprising results, hence success. I fear that you might get rather benign responses.
Discuss.
GTS
I dont think you need the photographs of responses really. If the posters are really beautifully printed (silkscreen?) then i think their graphic quality would serve well as a final outcome.
Maybe the categories could be split into the different types of papers as well, comparing which paper has more schadenfeude articles. This could then translate into the design of the posters? The fact that they are in the paper in the first place kinda relates the fact that we all enjoy hearing about other peoples mis-fortune.
Hope that helps?
Rachel
Ok, thanks for the comments, I can understand the points made.
I think the 'connections' probably weaken the core of the idea, which I'm very keen to keep simple and clear. Having realised a way to graphically communicate the rather philosophical idea of schadenfreude (focusing on the printed media), I wanted to measure/record reactions through a process of collating the original printed text, translating this to visuals, for reactions to be recorded photographically. I expected to get varied and interesting reactions to a private emotion as I hope the news collected to be funny, shocking, surprising etc - This is obviously a risk and something I probably shouldn't be basing the successfulness of my project upon.
Without this perhaps unnecessary element, I feel I'll still have more than enough print-based material for a strong project and scope enough to attract interest.
Influence can be measured simply by whether visitors choose large silhouette cuttings from the posters, and then choose further to witness that story visually. Offering printed postcards with the texts is further temptation.
This will ensure the project is kept tight with reliance on the quality of the printed graphics rather than on public 'performance'!
Have been giving some thought as to how I can gain feedback/commentary to my project as it is highlighting a current debate.
Rather than record reactions photographically, it would be much more fitting to receive written comments to the work I will display (i.e. posters collating shcadenfreudian news and supporting visuals), in the form of asking the question 'Does the media encourage us to take pleasure in other's misfortunes'?
The postcards I want to produce with the blocked cuttings from the posters on one side and text on the reverse, would ask people this question and invite them to comment in the space of the printed shape.
These comments would be included in the archive book of sources, statistics and feedback.
In a similar way to the Turner Prize 'Reading Room' designed by A2/SW/HK to gain public commentary and strike further debate.
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