OUIL403 Visual Skills- A day in the life (Initial Ideas)

After investigating the story a bit more and documenting what I needed to find out more about and what objects I needed to investigate further, I started drawing very rough initial sketches to get some ideas down.

The article we were given had a few different points to it- firstly it was about air pollution and it's dangers in general, then moved onto a more specific story about the VW scandal earlier this year, then finally moved onto political corruption and about covering up the huge issue of UK emissions.

I decided against focussing on just one story, and therefore decided that each of the three images we were to produce would focus on a separate part of the story.

I jotted down some key words and subjects that I should use for each subject. For air pollution I thought the focus should be mainly based around smoke and factories, and a general image of dirt and illness. 

For the VW scandal part of the article, I decided to base the image around the corruption of VW, and the awareness they had that they were putting peoples health at risk. 

The political scandal was, for me, the hardest to illustrate, as finding a direct representation of political deception and ignorance was something I found to be an almost metaphorical matter. I therefore decided to go with a metaphor and illustrate that, 'an elephant in the room' which no one wanted to talk about, and was simply being ignored.