100... Opinions

This section is to show the 100 opinions that I collected. there is a mixture of primary and secondary. I split my research into 3 sections; movies, comics and the homosexual undertones of Batman. This meant i could cover each area in depth and didn't go off track. I found this to be the most interesting part of my research and i found i learnt a lot more about Batman from this research than i did from the facts.

For my primary research i designed a questionnaire to ask the general pubic about their knowledge of Batman, i asked 30 different people from all age ranges. I found this to be quite interesting because i thought a lot of people would know Batman from the comics but as it turns out more people know about Batman due to the films especially the new ones because of the controversy that surrounded them.

Below shows my research the questionnaire and the results.

100 Facts...

For our next brief we had to come up with a variety of different things that we were interested in and that we could collect100 items of. We had a whole session on how to collect the items, cataloging them, ways to focus your collections etc. We were then told to pick one out of our 60 to focus our research on for our project over christmas. I decided on settling on Comic Book Heroes - Specifically Batman. We were then told we had to collect 100 facts, 100 opinions and 100 objects relating to our chosen title.

With this section it shows the 100 facts that i managed to collect about Batman. Finding facts out about Batman was a lot harder then i thought it was going to be, as he was/is a public figure it thought there would be loads of information about him but finding it was hard. I visited a lot of comic book shops and trawled the internet to drum up my facts. I think the most interesting parts i found out about Batman, were the homosexual undertones that were written in the early years of Batman, I had never known that before and it did cause controversy in the 1940's.

What is meant by book...

We were given the task to find 5 books, that to us we find interesting and different. We literally had to judge a book by its cover. I thought that the most interesting books around at the moment are books designed for children. These books tend to be brightly coloured, big, interesting to touch, interactive and fun to read. They do this in order to engage a child and completely focus their attention on the book.

So i decided to raid my nieces/nephews little libraries and find out what designers are doing today. I think the most interesting book i found was the hungry caterpillar book. I used to love this book as a child and now that its interactive if i were a child i would never be able to put it down. I also looked at comic books, as i am doing a project on them currently i took photos of the outside and inside, it just shows a different layout and a different way of telling a story. Below show the examples of the books that i found.

What If... Part 2

With the next part of the brief we were told to go back to our original research and boards and then begin some new, fresh research on the weaknesses that had popped up in the critical analysis.

We knew our general idea was good, but we were lacking the key information and what point we really truely wanted to get across. So we went our separate ways and started our own research.

The areas i was going to look into more specifically were whether graffiti walls truly work and what older people actually thought about graffiti. I decided the easiest and quickest way to establish whether graffiti walls really worked was to post the question on a graffiti forum, this worked really well. I got a lot of responses, mostly from people in America where they had designated graffiti walls.

The general consensus was that the walls worked, only if they were monitored and if the area was checked out before to see if people would actually use it in an effective way. another idea that popped up was the idea of people having permits to do it, this gave a restriction and if there was anything that went on the walls that was vandalism they would know who did it.

Once i had gathered my research for that problem i then went on to create a questionnaire that was directed to the older generation, i then went and asked 30 people what they thought about the idea of graffiti, the age range varying from 35 to 90. This actually worked out really well as i spoke to my aunty who works as the head of a state school in Manchester, and she actually did a graffiti wall at school to direct the youths creativity in a more controlled manner and she said that at first it was hard to get them interested but once she started doing competitions to create a piece for the wall every term and then get the youths to help each other and create the winning piece they responded to that very well.

Once this research was done and we had re-grouped we then began to generate ideas for the invitation to the event, we decided upon doing a small wallet fold out poster. this poster would have all the information on it needed to get the youths interested and it would show everything on it that we wanted the youths to be interested in.

The next step was to put a small presentation together to show the groups again, below shows our boards and the new concepts/ideas that we came up with as well as the example of the fold out we would create.