4D Assignment 1 development + Final

Presentation #1

Personally I like to do on topics that has been frustrating me. Hence when the assignment was just given out, I was bothered by all the negativity on social media, especially during the Rio 2016 Olympics.

Of course there were kindhearted people that gave positive and encouraging comments, but the rest were really heartless and insensitive.

Here are some screenshots I took from the Facebook comment section regarding Singapore’s Table Tennis women’s Team lost to Japan.

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After the first presentation about this, I was told to work with text, and incorporate images together.


Presentation#2

For the preparation of the next presentation, I went on to find more hurtful comments on social media, hence touching on the topic of religion, foreigners, art etc.

Table Tennis Players

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Foreign workers

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Mean tweets regarding foreign workers

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Muslims

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Anti-Muslim people on twitter

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Manually added tears in the top right photo

Art

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I don’t understand why people have to be so pessimistic especially towards artworks that replicates from photographs, which was why I chose Chuck Close in the image. If they want to critic at least give both the good and bad.

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Alex Tan

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This guy is the editor of States Times Review, a very well-known website for anti-government articles that may/ may not be true. His kind of comments spreads negativity, which was why I chose his face. One of the comment about blocking people on a particular post was rather ironic…

After the presentation, Mr Robert said that the images looks like posters instead because of the words. In addition, the main subject matter wasn’t very clear because of the colour figure and words. I was also advised to choose consistent images and not to make it too dramatic with crying people.


Presentation #3 (Final)

Improvements from presentation #2

Table Tennis 

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Playing with different layouts

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I changed the image as in this one, Tian Wei looks disappointed and discouraged. Chose this text layout because the clean edges at the corners works better with the image.

 Foreign Workers

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Made the image more contrasting as compared to before with more blacks. 

Muslims

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Art

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Alex Tan

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New topics

African Americans

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Up till now the African Americans are still discriminated and are treated differently.

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Asians

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On the internet, people will start stereotyping and keep saying the same few racist jokes such that it irritates and annoys me very badly. For example, Asians eating dogs/ cats which is not applicable to all Asians…

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Donald Trump

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This guy has been spreading hate all over his twitter/ rallies, etc with insensitive tweets. 

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Experimenting with layouts and justifications.

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Seamless Words

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Everyday and every minute, there are countless of nasty comments in social media platforms. Hence, I have copied those comments and placed them together in a paragraph to show what kind of hate is given to a particular group of people or said by an individual.


After the final presentation, my classmate, Kim, suggested that the pages looks like a book and if so, the content inside it will be unexpected.

In a normal published book, the words will usually be something professional and have been edited many times. However, for this, the words are just plain nonsense, which makes the concept more interesting.