Visual Language: 20th October

Inspiration


In today's visual language session we were working in teams. We were given the Channel 4 ident as inspiration and told to create a piece that closely resembles the idea. We were also told to bring in several different boxes, all different sizes, as long as they remained smaller than a shoe box. At first we arranged the boxes in order of size, from smallest at the front to biggest at the back. We then realised this wasnt the best idea and instead arranged the boxes into different planes, so that when looking through the view finder all that was visible was boxes. We then decided to print out seven different E's, each one getting gradually lighter and lighter. The next part of the task involved a lot of effort on behalf of everyone in the group. We had to cut out parts of each letter and place them on the different planes, deciphering as we went along, trying to figure out the logical way and appropriate way to arrange the cut outs. A lot of compromise and hard work went into trying to get it perfect and I think we were very successful in incorporating the idea of light and shade and the Channel 4 idea. Heres what it looked like:
Below is a video that shows the effect of our finished piece. I think it works really well and is very similar to the 'E4' inspiration we started off with. I don't like the fact that I'm in the video.



And the team that put it together: