Communication is a Virus: 2nd Crit

By this time, we had posted up and around our stickers and we're waiting for a response on our twitter page: 

What we brought to the table in the crit, was a problem we were having, which was we were getting followers but no one was interacting with us. The random people would but they didn't seem to be getting more people on board. 

I think this would have been down to Joe's method of getting followers on twitter. Which was through a website called http://twiends.com/all. Which I think kind of ruined the whole thing as it was legitimate I don't think, we were following more than we were followed by and they had only done it out of the fact we were following them.  

I couldn't tell if or who had followed us from the actual area we were in which made the stickers rather useless, other than the fact they got ripped down.

The feedback we were given on the problem with people interacting was that we should be bigger and bolder and try and get peoples attention rather then just feeding them links which seems rather obvious in hindsight. 

Our next step was to go bigger and try and create bigger posters to fill walls, A1/ A0 size to get people's attention. Using a mock-up of one of Grace's early posters I created this to see how it would look for the group to get an idea of what we were aiming for.

Joe and Grace both created posters for the group, both concepts for us to take on, we decided to go with Grace's as it appeared to be more clever in it's approach, Joe's idea seemed rather generic and lacked 'umpth' even with their size.

Communication is a Virus: Initial Ideas Crit

For this crit the feedback we got rather ranged, as the initial idea is rather vague the feedback we got so far was: 

Our concept was good, and treating the brief name 'Communication is a virus' as a bad thing a different approach to the other groups. 

However, the production of an app wouldn't be feasible as no one in our group was able to actually make the app. 

We got suggested to use twitter instead, because of how we can use it's features to our advantage and track people who are using our hashtags over Facebook which is mostly anon until we have people actually following or friending us.

Our response to this was:

We removed facebook and the app from focus, as these were no long an option we could use. Next, focusing on twitter over facebook, as per the previous response. Instead of 5 facebook less visits as day, instead we proposed 5 less tweets as our new direction. 

As we originally had the idea of doing something involving fruit, it'd be best now to use the twitter motif and go along with using birds as it had a bigger relation to twitter other something inconspicuous as facebook.

With the removal of the App we now needed new ways to promote our app so we figured the best thing to do was to use traditional means and use leaflets, posters and stickers to promote the twitter page. As well as this, using different social medias to promote our twitter page.

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I really like this group, so far and I'm enjoying the idea generation a lot as its very fast paced and we're able to cover ground fast while been a group. There's a few prominent members of the group who contribute the most however. 

Context of Practice, A Brief history of: Crit

In this crit, the feedback I received on my publication was overly very good, one thing richard mentioned which was to have a 9th page which would then say about the end of communism, a fairy tale with a bad ending. So to speak.

Another thing was how the constructivist aesthetic would come across when it's a 2d illustration rather than a pop-up element instead. It's something I attempted to come across in pop-up image but I think I may need to emphasise it even further during the next one just in case.

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1: Oppressed factory workers.

2: Mutiny between them.

3: Up rise against the oppressors. (moment of Revolution)

4: Victorious, now control the country, promise of Bread, Peace and Land.

5: Start a fresh, new order, new art.

6: Clothing/ Identity made to recognize the revolutionaries

7:  Statues and posters put up to spread the new art and message.

8: United people, Spread the promise across the world.

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9: Stalin destroys lenin's communism, leads to the destruction of the USSR, 1980.
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9: Stalin the poison to communism leads it to it's destruction. Nothing lasts forever.
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