Day in the Life Roughs

I found the challenge of producing roughs very helpful in terms of composition and consideration of materials, as usually I wouldn't think to experiment and practice outside my sketchbook in the format of my final piece before making the actual final piece. This task also allowed me to receive feedback on my ideas that I found helpful when reevaluating my designs for the final pieces. From the feedback I received I have decided to scale back my use of the Volkswagen logo and only use it once in one of my editorials, as it was too prevalent in my roughs and I feel that I was leaning on the imagery rather than taking risks with the idea. For the landscape roughs I hve decided to create a more narrative illustration as I feel the layout lends itself to this style of idea. My landscape editorials will hopefully tell a tale from left to right that displays my personal opinions and interpretations of the message in our article. I have also learned that I am focusing too much on the pollution side of the story and not paying as much attention to the political side of it, which is an equally important section of the story. I have played with some imagery of ideas like "swept under the carpet", "a good day to bury bad news", and "an elephant in the room" in my sketchbook in response to the facts presented in the article concerning the government only releasing pollution based statistics on the day Jeremy Corbyn was elected labour leader, ie; a day where everyone was preoccupied and nobody was looking out for pollution figures. I find this element of deceit an itersestinf point to exploit so I will carry these ideas over into at least one of my final editorials.