Are people in Leeds scared of the dark?

Now together myself, Paul, David and Charlotte were set to solve this problem in Leeds.

we couldn't do that without a strong body of statistacal research secondry and primary in order to state that it is actualy a problem.

We looked into crime in Leeds and times, most crime happened along the A660 which to me should be the A666. Now the crimes that took place was robbery, assault etc. why there though?

i looked on Google Earth and discovered it was this area which was the longest route for students home from town. all though a main road, the night prevents there being people around also dependant about what kind of people are around at that time?

however i looked it up and the main strips had miles of area which was surrounded by woodland area, safe? mmm yeah what i thought to, picture being drunk on your own walking home along some woodland area at 4am? Picture perfect for some people who have been inside before.

now stepping it back a little, i made some questionairres to ask people various segments of assessing the problem, one of the questions was are you scared at night?

about 14 male said no and 16 girls said no leaving as it was out of 50 11 boys were and 9 were.

then i changed it a little to are you scared of the dark in Leeds?
the outcome of answers soon changed in favour to our problem with about 5/50 people who were not, thats like 1/10 people 10%.

i carried on with further back up questions and more facts abotu crime etc then i thought of something like a bus stop in town in which if you were on your own you would go and a group would walk to certain areas within Leeds to make sure they get home safe.

one of our questions was do you sleep with a childhood toy? majority answered yes, so i thought of a graffeti styled teddy bear walking guiding a person back safely, heres an image of a stencil for him:




I also came up with a few campaigne ideas with a quote

WHY WALK ALONE, WHEN WE WALK TOGETHER?:





basically a foot step with writting on the tread, i didn't develop this further.





However we didn't choose any of these, later on we added a new questionairre letting the public decide which design worked better, Charlottes concept did, i had full confidence with that decision and happy they chose it too.

we developed it even more to a degree combinining both David's type hand written and her image to develop a amazing sticker which we showed in use along the a660.

Ooops broke the law.

ermmmm but anyhoooow, im going to get a few images of the sticker in place and show it to use.
we were thinking of combining mine and Davids piece together in order to make a poster, that was the illustrations we did heres a litttle exampleeeeeeeey:

after we had all of our information we collected stickers and posted them up along the a660 to emphasise our communication, here are a few photos of the stickers in a social atmosphere:

after this we had our final crit on the process which i think went really well, here is a photo of our display:

thats all folkes x

Funny how the mind works... Prejudice? Metaphorical?

Lets face the music.
The link is given straight away to a Place.
Where?
London obviously, one of Britains main tourist attractions.
A red double decker bus.
Same context as New Yorks very own Yellow cab.
But to be honest. This could be any place in the world.



But of course all us posh upperclass English
eat toasted crumpets with jam and scones.
whilst chooning in to a quiet game of croquet, cricket or rugby.
Perhaps a glass of scotch?



Women? Armpits?
MANLY?!?

F O R R I E G N



Watch out.
He's one of those Hoodeys.
Obviously a thug with a gun.



Caught you out. Overload of Information.

BOTOX

Add some pictures from your sketch book!
like the one on your phone!

then state how you changed your mind to a new idea
of

BOO TOX SCARES AWAY OLD AGE.

Scan in your envelope idea and evaluate the piece.

explain how you thought the envelope could be like a traditional haloween theme, Black and Orange. and it could be like a trick or treat bag, with a mask, calander and sticker in. and the mailing list as a sweeeety set, like candy kool fool x

Explorative, Search, Investigate

Scan in the illustrated version of your type face for Will

Typograpy matters

Now stepping it back a bit as youve been slacking christyyy
Scan in some design sheets of the 1st project and the ten pieces you selected for your word
EDIT!

100 PHOTOS

I went out round Leeds and took 150 Photos half at night half at day.
these were my favorite out comes of the photos in which i had taken:


Im into the texture of my Fred Perrys


The wierd thing with this photo was the fact that on the bottom left corner
there is a woman like figure, its not fully seeable in this photo as it has been shrank but
shes there mann!

Abanndoned streets


Flash or no flash that is the question

Reflections

When we ventured down Blackman lane


Blue filter lense cap, Leeds City Center, Marc Redhead + Bus= Christmas


One Two Bird Flew Crew polluting you


Now during the lesson we brought our photos in and mine got laid out and organized and our group had to identify how out of ten conclusions it could be:

Alphabetically
Urban
Filthy
Streets
Brick
Night
Graffeti
Decay
Time
Journey

Now everyone went around the class room and ticked what they thought the organisation was
Urban got ticked the most in the survey if you will.
we were then given 2 mins to combine the pieces.
i chose URBAN JOURNEY AT NIGHT

Gripping eyy? now your proberly wonder why i chose that? well what i did was catagorise all the words down. i figured the anomylous results should be erased. they were Alphabetical and filth. Then i combine them down into pairs which went with each other. the pairs were:

Streets and Journey - When on a Journey you most likely walk through streets

Night and Urban- Sets a dangerous scary scene

Brick and Graffeti - Graffeti is on walls

Decay and Time - Things decay in time

Then what i did was catogrise them down into single words which ended up as:

Streets and Journey - Stage, where the places will lead you
Night and Urban- Scene, the heart of the images
Brick and Graffeti - Observational. most likely to bee seen
Decay and Time - Character, how the place looks

now sir. i began to thing to myself, i can include all of these things on my photos cant i?
providing i picked a good name which could sub catagorise them all, and that was

"An Urban Journey at Night"

The next stage of the brief required me to collect:

Ten Primary Resorces of this subject
and Ten Secondary Resorses to the subject

Well i researched into Urban and incuded some images i found in books and on the internet, here are a few secondary conclusions:

Urban - An urban area is an area with an increased density of human-created structures in comparison to the areas surrounding it. Urban areas may be cities, towns or conurbations, but the term is not commonly extended to rural settlements such as villages and hamlets

Then i went out and took some photographs of an urban journey at night, here are a few:




Basically this backs up the secondary research, as all the things that people associate urban with is more or less true. Unsafe, Dangerous, Scary etc

Taking it further from just a few photographs, i then developed my photos on snapfish and
picked them up, after this i basically sketched the images, heres a couple of sketches i did:





I then thought how can i take this further?
so i then edited them to make them look more effective and have more feel!
here are the results i got:







I then went to the next lesson for a crit.
which envolved assessing the work with

A fact
An opinion
A question and
A problem to solve

this was my sheet




We then had to round them up into One of each that you liked.
mine were

At night it is dark
The photographs give a sinister reflection to urban life
Do people act differently in an Urban setting oposed to a rural one?
Do our surroundings reflect our mindset?

after everyone in the class had done this they stuck them up in class on the wall in the areas they belonged, fact, opinion problem etc

we then removed one and re organised ones which were similar
then we repeated the process until one of each persons was left mixing round the areas.

mine was At night it is dark.

then who evers was catagorised as similar to yours you were in a group with. the others left with mine were:

Everything reflects light to some extent
black contrasts white
snow is an excuse

from this we gathered together to find out a new word we can use after debating we decided upon the word REFLECTIONS.

what reflects?

Emotion
Glass - Tv, Monitor, Windows, Camera lense, lights etc
Objects
Metal
Eyes
Mirrors
liquid
glasses
plastic etc

i provided some secondary research images which are stated below:


This image shows an african american man reflecting the past of raccism history through some glasses, or another persons eyes?


were as this piece to me shows a decendant visiting a memorial wall were his ansestors/ assendants may have perished to save thier future, i love this piece i find it more than effective and intreaging in multiple mannors

Bringing on a concept of primary. i took a few photographs in order to show this:


now i also got a few reflective materials together to help this.

after wards i thought of sill scenerios which mix the 4 of our things together.
One was:

The ice age was a lie! which basically meant we were evoluted before hand to a higher standard than now, however the problems with the planet were the same, for example global warming.

one of the solutions was to move the Earth away from the sun by so much making it colder so the ice caps wouldn't be melting etc, however it went wrong and we froze the Earth for mileniums, all evidence found would be kept in what some believe to be called Area 51.

The other concept i got was that The vampires went into space and stopped the Earth from moving so half of the world would remain in darkness forever so they could dine and rule it forever without the fear of sunlight.

yeahhhhhhhh well that concludes that area of research and development in which i studyed.
the next step was we all correlated our research and had to choose a problem with Leeds people.
however myself and David were the only members in the group at the time as the others had other needs at that moment, so after a load of ideas fluring we eventually came up with a nice simple concept which was

Are people in Leeds scared of the dark?

COLOUR

Basically we started looking at colour and how they work together to combine a amazing result
and how some colours when put together conflict each others features.
This can be sen by looking at the colour wheel.


The interesting thing in this is how Primary and Secondry also work together
(another thing we have been studying at the moment)

Primary are the colours which exist by thier self
secondry are the colours in which could not survive/ exist without the primary colours
tertiary i asume are the colours in which when primary and secondry colours are combine.

Anyway we all got a seperate colour in this colour wheel.
mine was Orange.

our task was to bring in ten objects which were that colour, i chose:

A rubber chicken
Jelly
Tenis Ball
Cd
Rope
Some tiles
Cotton
Clothe
A marker pen
and Paint.

We all then got in a group, the people with the same colours that is.
We then layed all of our items out on the table and had to order them in a way.



We decided to arrange them by strongest to weakest orange
for example, Redish orange would be stronger than Orange Yellow.





I then thought that i would try experimenting with some of the different items
and try to spell out the work ORANGE.



As we had arranged them into this order, we made a giant colour wheel around the classroom
combining all the colours together and it looked like this:




(if video doesn't work click this link)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuvFDQtKo2w

After all this was done we split up and experimented with different colour combinations, here were a few resolutions we developed:























This concluded our research on Colour for that day and i learnt alot of diffrent methods of
visualy communicational use of colour.

Later on we had visual communication with Amber and learnt of diffrent ways of
communication, here is a few photos of what we did that day.