POSSIBLE IDEAS
Profile of Exbury, look at the different characters e.g fishermen and changing landscapes; beaches turning sandier, mudflats, tides changing daily. Closure of Fawley power station being developed into a shopping centre.
Humans interaction with nature. Link to Fawley, fishermen, bird shooting, dog walkers.
Advertising for RSPB, make birdwatching cool.
Migration of birds on the Solent - possible link to human migration? Use it as a microcosm?? --> more campaign style.
Hampstead heath ponds vs. the lido.
Dog walkers on Hampstead heath.
RESEARCH AND INSPO:
1) LOCATION; Inch Mery Creek, Exbury.
A small section on the Solent river but home to amazing wildlife and scenery. Interesting imagery to play around with, just need to find my focus.
2) Photographer Karoline Hjorth looks into how modern humans belong to nature.
The series is called Eyes as big as Plates. I think these images are a unique way of exploring the idea of human kinds interaction with nature and would like to base my work off this wacky comedic style.
If I decide to take this route I'd also like to play around with natural dyes.
Possibly use it to make a book cover?
3) RSPB make birdwatching cool.
Random, but could create a funny handbook promoting birdwatching, something for the youth. <-- My dad is always trying to get me into to it. Thought it was lame; I was wrong, it's actually pretty cool.
Whilst I was doing research I came across Studio Dumbar's work for the Amsterdam Sinfonietta posters. The posters respond graphically to the musical themes of the performance being advertised. Due to this the designers really play with typography, colour and scale to try capture the excitement of the music.
--> Possibly translate bird sounds into a typographic drawing/ motion graphic?
- Make it an interactive campaign, sample lots of sounds and allow people to make their own music out of nature.
4) Birds migrating
40% of all birds in the world are migrants. *https://www.hiwwt.org.uk/news/migratory-birds-how-they-find-their-way. 1 billion migrants in the world today of whom 258 million are international migrants and 763 million internal migrants – one in seven of the world's population. *https://www.who.int/migrants/en/
5) Hampstead ponds