practical peer review 2 and project reflection

I Found this peer review session hard to engage with as not many other students attended and I only got one set of feed back from the session

questions raised:

what exact age range are you looking at

- this is an understandable point of confusion and perhaps something I need to specify as so far I have been using a childlike mode of image making to appeal to a younger audience but also in a sense to give the work a feeling of excitement and engagement that could appeal to all

better investigation of political posters

- visual investigation has been focused on children's outcomes as I'm am trying to break away from traditional protest posters at this point

more varied slogans

- this is a good point and I aim to brainstorm more individual slogans, I have however made the decision to keep all slogans positive based on the positive outlook shown by the children's outcomes

is it for children or by children

- this question came up in the previous peer review, it is both 'the two final results are the posters which will either work directly with children, or my own body of work and protest posters I have created which will focus on communicating effectively to children specifically'

focus question

- This will come with more development on my essay and a tutor led tutorial

practical reflection so far

I have been struggling with colour currently in the practical developments and feel my work is starting to stagnate,  the screen printed outcomes pictured below (1) are quite successful visually but I know that they're not capturing the same level of imagination and playfulness in the children's work. I aim to really push myself now to use every colour available to me, just as the children did, and worry less about my text being on one line and more about expressing my message the work started to
really become exciting. I want to create an explosion of excitement and visual intrigue which would be more successful at drawing a younger audience in. I am starting to make the decision to be more abstract with letter forms and experimental with colour (2) and perhaps move to focusing only on personifying typography and using playful letter forms rather than images of flowers/suns etc.

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