studio brief 4

The 4th and final brief for this module asks us to do the following; 

Produce a graphic response/ graphic product /piece of work that makes a statement, comment, observation or gives advice about your experience on your first year of this course. Work with any appropriate media or format and develop and identify the content will be entertaining, advisory or informative. After going over the brief i began thinking about what i have learnt and what observations i have made throughout the year; what i have learnt is that you need to learn how spend your money wisely, and the observation i've made is that i spend it badly.  I began to think about how i could express my experiences with money or therefor lack of, and then i thought about how many students i know also struggle with budgeting, or quite frankly just buy stuff they don't need. It seems, to me especially anyway, that i started the year with a much more naive view on how much things cost, and then slowly as the year has progressed, my bank balance has decreased and i now stand and consider whether i really need to buy a new toothbrush or whether my current one will do.  I've thought of the concept of creating a kind of zine, filled with images of first year students (perhaps photographed in their bed rooms)and text accompanying them; detailing what they would spend their last £10 on.  The intent of the piece will be to show what different people prioritize and what they value spending money on, i feel like it will be an interesting incite for people moving to university to show how different students would spend their last ten pounds.  I thought of the possibility and risk of people not being truthful if their identities were revealed, and then i thought of the concept of creating a mask/head which they could put on for the photo, taking inspiration from the film Frank.  Not only will the 3D head act as a way to hopefully gain more truthful and hopefully more funny answers, as i want the zine to be quite humorous, but it will also be visually pleasing and i feel as if it could really work.  The idea behind taking photographs of the people in their bedrooms and asking them a question but not revealing their identity is something i find quite interesting, as i believe it will be interesting to see how much you can tell about someone from the enviroment they live in and what they spend their money on; it provides the opportunity for the reader/viewer to imagine for themselves what this person could look like/ their personalities.  I will take this concept to a crit and see what feedback i get on the idea.