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.