This morning, with our progress crit looming for 11.30, Yafet, Liam and I (sadly Sadie was at the dentist's and Michael was AWOL) sat down and talked about our development- and looked over some images that I had printed from the past week to show to tutor Jo in our progression tutorial.
We liked the idea of creating an infographics guide about April Fools' day- containing Fools (sort of like a double bluff) that we had begun to discuss and experiment with designs for yesterday.
Whilst talking about the origins of April's Fool Day- we had a bright idea... creating an April Fools' around the world guide- about the "true" *wink wink* traditions and hoaxes played in countries around the world on April 1st...
We began to make a list of countries, and stopped at around one hundered when our brains had fried- and Liam innovately came up with the name
"Around the world in 80 fools.."
We began to write a list of potential fools. All could be true, though would certainly make you question them (most built on traditions or facts of the specific countries, therefore, naturally making them seem more realistic)...
- In Peru they sacrifice a llama to bring good luck to villagers in fear of getting fooled.
-In Bert's tearoom (West Yorkshire), for one hour, all tea leaves are switched with coffee granuels.
-On April Fools' day, one of the Queen's Grenadier guards swaps his bearskin hat for a taxidermied sloth bear.
-On April Fools' Day in Greece, the late night "plate smash" event is parodied by attempting to smash melamime plastic plates to fool the customers.
-For two hours in Eygpt, a blow-up pyramid is erected to fool tourists on coach tours of the historical sites.
We also considered our methods of production and audience...
Audience:
-Sociologists, people interested in social history; geography, traditions (April Fools'), Book and Design lovers.
Methods:
-Poster/Small booklets/Hot dog
-Website link
As we discussed this idea, we considered linking a booklet with this fake stories to a website- telling the reader that they had been fooled- but then, go on to give them hints and tips as to how they can use our methods to fool others.
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We presented these, as well as our developmental ideas (we had developed throughout the week) to Jo in our progress tutorial- and she seemed to like the majority of our ideas and the direction we had taken since our last crit- however, she felt that our ideas for our final product had strayed a little too far from the briefing- and the country elements could perhaps alienate many people- and not really making them care whether or not they had been fooled- as many people would have no idea about certain cultures and presume the stories to be true.
Of course, when discussing it we could completely understand, and she really helped us to recognise our strengths so far, and the direction in which we should be heading- where we tell the lies, as we have shown often proves successful from our posters around the university building, and perhaps analysing them to show others how they work.
We considered these points:
-Fooling people outright, or giving them clues? An odd-one-out guessing game.
-How to fool/How to spot a fooler.
-How you get tricked (what makes a lie convincing) and how to avoid.
-Re-designing content, concept and method of delivery boards for Friday's presentation.
CONTEXT TO REVIEW:
david schrigley
the darwin awards
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Yafet, Liam and I re-grouped and talked about potential design developments...
-Top ten April Fools' pranks and examples
-Types of April Fools' and how to master them
-Odd one out: Guess which fool is a lie, or you are the fool
-How to look out for fools- detective notes of what to look for
-April Fools'...and how to get away with them
-Top ten April Fools'
How people responded
Why it worked
How to develop a lie of your own (Researching lies we can re-create)
and after another chat with Jo, this is what we have finally decided...
"
How to create an effective April Fool, with inspiration from the greats"
...a booklet guide with our "top ten April Fool's jokes/pranks/lies/hoaxes.
We will have the original April Fool written down, how we went about performing it (re-creating to verify that the fool works on a day-to-day basis, and without elaborate expenses, etc) and then how to create it at home for yourself.
We felt that this idea covered all interpretations of the brief- to lie convincingly (as we will also perform the hoaxes) but also how to get others to lie too.
THE PLAN OF ACTION
Research famous April Fool's pranks...
Filter out the best ones...
Filter out ones that we could re-create...
Discuss with group to create designs which we agree are best suited
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