By winding up/‘punking’ various types of people, whether it is on the phone, in person, by mail/email, etc people’s reactions and their judgement may show the fundamental attitude of our modern day society. I plan to create possible scenarios where I can enquire information, direction, help & advice from people whilst testing their patience with a number of wind-ups.
These will include: seeing if I get judged trying to do everyday things dressed as a funny/evil character/person, or having a small ability to speak English, a difficulty to understand the person… (And many, many more I need to think of in order to record interesting footage on camera, video, and voice recorder.
14 weeks is a long time, and I think I will enjoy the challenge of going out and recording some funny/interesting/bizarre/cringing footage. The research I will collect I will use as a fundamental part of the final outcome(s) for my FMP, which may include illustration/type/photography/image-manipulation work that I want to work with & enjoy.
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I think this project has much more scope than your previous one. There is always somthing interesting about pranking people and we never get board of watching or hearing about it.
Asya
I think that the process sounds like a fun idea, my only worry is that it does not tally with the rationale. I.e. the punking idea sounds very fun and the reasoning seems boring. However maybe you could change the concept to being 'all the things you can get away with by being a student?'. After all we only have 3 more months before we have to grow up and be adults!
Mel
Brill thoughts, Mel, that does sound like a good reason to do something naughty and 'studentlike'. I agree that the reasoning may have to be changed to something that has more 'va va vum' like this. Thanks 4 the comments guys x
It might be me, but I think the description on the blog needs a little bit more of conceptual information to make it fully understandable. Like, what do you mean with "show the fundamental attitude of our modern day society"? What is that attitude? I'm sure you know exactly what it is but you aren't telling us here. I think I need to know a little bit more about your concept to see the FMP clear.
(sorry if it's only me)
Cristina
not at all... christina, you are right, I have not really explained it well. I suppose what I was trying to say & what I would want to show is people's judgement on looks or the fact that in a big city like london noone likes it if their personal space is invaded (if i was to invade it). I need to think this through, what exactly I want to achieve or prove by 'harrasing' people, but like melissa suggested i may try and make it a bit more light-hearted... (so don't worry it not u, its me! lol)
I feel that the attitude of today's society is a great starting point. London is full of people but such little interaction especially on public transport.
Invading people's personal space and recording their reactions?
I think whenever you have the outcome clear you have the FMP! I can't wait to see people reactions. It might be as funny as Borat's but, I hope not as risky...
cristina
Like the idea of pushing social boundaries (probably cause I jsut finished watching the Borat DVD :P!) Maybe you could try a graphical base for 'street punking'? There are lots of examples of where street culture signage like sandwich board men, people holding up signs on Oxford Street, protest mobs at Trafalgar Square etc. If you design something along that vein it will make a statement and definitely get a lot of stares!
There is something very workable about Joanna's tangent of 'graphic street punking'. As it stands I don't know if filming yourself in costumes and prank calling people has the outcomes, or if you would just end up with a budget episode of Trigger Happy TV, but subverting the uses of snappy advertising signage to get up peoples nose via design... getting exciting I think. Rather than just being a comedic social experiment this may actually prove something about graphics in society. Though the risk factor is if you don't get the right reactions, the project is unsuccessful.
I keep thinking of getting a man on Oxford Street to hold up a giant tart card on a wooden pole whilst casually reading a book along side the Subway and Hong Kong Diner men (in fact just making fuck off huge tart cards would be hilarious in itself). If you wanted to see London's cultural reactions to offensive ideas I think this kind of activity would come close to the mark. The answer may be that people would try to ignore it. Once read about a project where an obnoxious man stood flyering with £5.00 notes and the general public still ignored him.
Wow, sorry - rant! I hope this is helpful, Mary :)
of course you will be in the window with me, your my girl!
Michelle
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