FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT PORTFOLIO
MARCH 2012
tim harris
INTRODUCTION TO FMP
Throughout my Final Major Project I intend to explore editorial design and information graphics. My first proposal was extremely vague, I didn’t really have any ideas about content for a publication. I’d spent the previous semester putting together photography zines but I felt for a Final Major Project the subject matter should be far more interesting and have an element of depth that would generate a greater interest from the audience. My FMP proposals explain the development in planning in further detail.
FMP Proposal/One
Without being to vague or too precise with my proposal, allowing for experimentation and the potential for taking different routes for my FMP. The last semester has been a lot of thinking and not a lot of doing and I intend to not repeat this. I want to look further into publications and editorial design, both digital and handmade. Looking at the bookmaking processes for my work as well as documenting the development for a separate publication. The content is something I have been thinking about for a long time and I am still unclear about what it would be but as my independent practice is predominately photography and typography based I will begin with this. Another creative process that I am becoming increasingly interested in is sound production and want to play around with creating visuals.
PREDICTED TIME PLAN
A time plan put together on Monday 6th February outlining intentions for planning, researching and doing my FMP. As one of my final outcomes is to be publications we spent a bit of time looking into printers costs and expected times for printing to be completed. The final date for submission to the printers which I have chosen as Blurb is the 12th March. This date allows for adjustments once receiving the book so it is not necessarily a deadline. I aim to have the whole project finished by the 20th April allowing two weeks to put my final portfolio together.
FMP Proposal/TWO
I want to put together a book looking at the statistics gathered by the home office about our society in Britain and Wales from last year. I want to re-appropriate the information into information graphics through the mixed mediums of photography, collage and print making as I find their reports dreary and over complicated. I have considered making a series of books, one for murder rates, birth rates, etc. However, I feel one publication would be better than a series, simplifying the statistics, separating both the positives & negatives of society, starting at each end of the book and meeting in the middle. The scale and printing possibilities of the publication is something I will be looking into this week. I have already began photographing places and people relevant to the sub chapters of the positives & negatives. Negatives.
Positives.
.Homicide Rates .Firearm Incidents .Knife Crime .Intimate Violence .Drug Misuse .Car thefts .Abortions .Unemployment .Terrorism .Antisocial Behaviour .Burglary
.Birth rates .Graduations .Volunteers .Charities .Employment
After diving into the world of statistics, looking at all of the bullet points within my second proposal I began noticing how little positive things were logged. The Negatives of society seemed to outweigh the positives just like the news rarely having something positive to report. As I had proposed two books and the content I wanted to include in them being dramatically inequal I decided to focus on the negatives within our society, specifically looking at crime. I set about doing this by looking through the home offices archives. My initial intention was to do this for the UK’s top 10 major cities. This would have taken forever, reappropriating all the data into a more interesting visual form, for each crime, in each city would of generated hundreds of images. My time plan didn’t allow for this as I wanted to simplify the data. With this in mind I started looking at London and how crime varies between its 32 cultural and religiously different boroughs.
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These ‘Other Crimes’ fall under the categories of: .Weapons .Shoplifting .Damage & Arson .Theft .Drugs
Poster idea of Birmingham and London. Intended to do one for each city.
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During the course of 2011 there was a total of: .1787 Burglaries .12024 Anti Social Behaviour Orders (ASBO) .1419 Robberies .1552 Vehicle Crimes .4975 Violent Crimes .36338 ‘Other Crimes’ were recorded
These ‘Other Crimes’ fall under the categories of: .Weapons .Shoplifting .Damage & Arson .Theft .Drugs
As the research has begun to pile up and the stats driving me a bit mad I decided to look at some personal views of London from the people that live there. At this point I haven’t been concerned about the layout and composition of the book, merely making posters using the relevant information but simplifying it.
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WORST AREAS IN ACCORDING TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC
After a recent chat with Vaughn about what direction I should be heading in he suggested comparisons of data. This hadn’t really crossed my mind due to wanting to focus purely on 2011. This however made the data a bit irrelevant and dull so I started looking at the previous year and comparing each crime in correspondence with the total from the year before.
CRIMES OF A SEXUAL NATURE
WALTHAM FOREST HACKNEY TOWER HAMLETS REDBRIGDE NEWHAM BARKING & DAGENHAM HAVERING
103 123 114 89 187 81 53
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126 106 145 85 117 139 ENFIELD BARNET HARRINGEY ISLINGTON CAMDEN WESTMINSTER CITY
129 153 145 106 178 93 69
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2011
111 83 134 113 118 134
2010
-11.9 -21.7 -7.6 +32.9 +0.9 -3.6 +25.2 +24.4 +27.2 +19.1 -4.8 +14.8 +30.2
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78 48 105 120 93 69 71 201 139 206 69 103 31 182 103 66 57 56 43
LAMBETH WANDSWORTH MERTON SUTTON KINGSTON RICHMOND
210 94 76 67 50 24
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SOUTHWARK LEWISHAM CROYDON BROMLEY GREENWICH BEXLEY
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HILLINGDON HARROW BRENT EALING HOUNSLOW HAMMERSMITH KENSINGTON
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HILLINGDON HARROW BRENT EALING HOUNSLOW HAMMERSMITH KENSINGTON
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WALTHAM FOREST HACKNEY TOWER HAMLETS REDBRIGDE NEWHAM BARKING & DAGENHAM HAVERING
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HOMICIDES
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The London Riots that broke out during August of 2011 is a subject I followed quite closely from the very start right up to the present day. I found it interesting how a part of society caused such random and meaningless terror and disruption. I’m referring to the ‘copycats‘ who had no idea why they were doing it, just doing it. I began logging where these events took place and researching statistics on theft and damage whilst looking more into Isotype.
“I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.” Boyd Rice
24 VEHICLE FIRES
LOCATIONS OF LONDON RIOTS INCIDENTS PONDER’S END ENFIELD EDMONTON TOTTENHAM HARRINGEY ROMFORD WOOLWICH TOTTENHAM WALTHAMSTOW STOKE NEWINGTON DALSTON HACKNEY CHALK FARM CAMDEN NOTTING HILL EALING ISLINGTON OXFORD CIRCUS SLOANE SQUARE ELEPHANT & CASTLE PECKHAM DEPTFORD BRIXTON CLAPHAM EAST DULWICH LEWISHAM WEST NORWOOD CRYSTAL PALACE CROYDON
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HUDDERSFIELD SALFORD MANCHESTER LIVERPOOL
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I’ve been looking at the links between religion and racism on top of the riots and crimes as this seems to be a major everyday occurrence in the multicultural capital.
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evaluation (so far)
Despite the constant changes in my proposals I am happy with the progress so far in my FMP. I have stuck to my time plan right up until now. The 12th of March deadline for printing allows for a delay incase of not making the date, which has happened. However, I am confident the layout will be complete within he next week. Whilst waiting for the book to be printed I will have time to develop my portfolio and tidy up other areas of my research and development. If time permits, I intend to develop the posters of London looking further into Isotype. The only areas I think I need to improve on is time management. This will be achieved by making my FMP my main commitment for the next month.
fmp still under construction