After my initial research into themes for things to exhibit at the work in progress show, I created 3 pieces that were a visual representation of the data and research I had found. I came across a few problems when I began to make these, firstly I don’t think I considered the ‘rule’ of each piece. I think, although its good that there is some comparisons, these comparisons don’t really help the audience understand my point. I think it would have been useful to use another point of comparison maybe? I also think I didn’t consider how to interpret this data is a more creative way. I think this is because I was stressed and rushed about not having anything to present at the show. I did also have some trouble with the proportion sizes, I think this needed a little work as I don’t think the visuals are accurate to the number they are presenting. I decided I wouldn’t be happy presenting wither of these as they just seem quite boring and not really what I want my project to be about.

I then started to refer back to the work with filters I had been working on, and started to think about how. I could present them for the show. I thought about trying to encourage the audience to use the filters over the top of famous climate change skeptics. In the middle of this process, a friend of mine shared a status on facebook, and it really encouraged a new way of thinking for this project.

I really liked how he managed to summarise  how hypocritical people can be, in terms of their social activism not being reciprocated in their everyday lives. I began to think about how easy it is to share a climate change related post with little or no change to ons life style. I also like the idea of poking fun at instagram trends, to maybe portray people’s priorities? which got my thinking about a filter that I could create to express this idea, of negligence being just as bad as skepticism when it comes to global warming. There has been a recent trend over instagram with filters that portray a ‘spinning wheel’ above the users head, asking a question like ‘which Disney character are you?’ or ‘your 20202 predictions’. I wanted to transform this idea into a political statement about climate. change, I came up with the idea for a filter that asks ‘which effect of climate change are you?’, usually these filters generate a random answer, but instead I wanted my filter to always finish not he same answer- human extinction. I know that this is a bit intense, but I wanted to communicate the idea that ultimately, if people don’t start to take action, this will be the outcome.

This was the first filter and how it was presented in the show. The presentation seems a little messy which I understand, but I was more focused on creating the filters to present rather than how I might consider the presentation.

Here are some videos of the filters being used during the show.

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This process was really useful to get the ball rolling of thinking about what I want to communicate. I am also very couscous about how people quickly loose interest when it comes to the subject of climate change, I think this is because it is spoken about on such a global scale, that its scary, and difficult to think that a single person can make a difference, which is a huge part of the problem. When I’m communicating I want to make sure its bitesize information, I think thins is where using data well, would be really helpful.