Initial Plans

Joe Cole

Mind Map

Mind Map

Mood Board

Mood Board

Mood Board AnalysisIs there any repetition in the images you have collected? Repeated colours/images styles/fonts/tone/mood• All of them are to do with historical battles both modern and ancient and they therefore

have the same tone of war and conflict. All the images take place around battlefields. The ancient battle scenes have golden glow to them as they are all imagined. The modern battle scenes have a cold hard feel to them as they are taken from actual photographs, lots of them are black and white due to their age adding to this feeling. All the images have a dynamic moody feel to them.

How will your mood boards influence your final product?This is the stuff I want to make as this images are my inspiration I want to use the feeling of power and movement in my final product shown in these images. I want to try and merge both old battles and new battles together to give my final product an interesting feel. The only thing that the mood boards and final product have in common is that they are moments in history with a dynamic battle scence feel to them. The final product didn’t use the same colours as the ancient or modern mood board because I wanted a to create something with a different ‘out of time’ feeling to it. The images were very graphic and bold.

Informal ProposalCurrent Idea

Concept Take a image of a historical battles then edit and make it in to something new and poignant about the nature of war as ‘war never changes’

Type of products you would make

• Wallpapers and photos

What you will need to make

them

• A computer, access to the internet Photoshop

Audience Mostly male audience due to its content but is not strictly for men only. Expected age range is 15 to 44 years.Images not targeting a specific sexuality or Social Grade.Socially conscious type A and B as the images have a challenging theme and are divisive . Location of the viewer is unimportantI think the audience sectors will interact with the images for Entertainment and Integration and Social Interaction.

ChoicesDiscounted ideas Reasons for not choosing this

projectMy face ‘self Portrait’ • Whilst I first thought this could be a great idea as I could

morph my face and put myself in some interesting situations I thought that the idea behind my final project was far more interesting to me personally. I also thought that the audience would be limited as there are only a small number of people who know who I am and it would take time to create a following

• I would have produced images on mugs, t-shirts & posters but without a following there would be no market for them

Celebrities • I had though about getting famous people and making strange famous couplings or getting them to do everyday tasks which could have been funny and poke fun at the ‘culture of celebrity’ I felt that it was an interesting idea but also not as powerful as the ‘war never changes message’.

• I had wanted to create images, posters & t-shirts but as celebrities popularity changes quickly it would be important to choose the right celebrity and as I'm not into celebrity culture this may have been difficult for me to get right.