Idea 1.

I emailed Sam earlier to ask what she thought if we did an animated infographic, like discussed in my previous blog post. She agreed with me about approaching the brief with a simple mindset/concept, but one that would be really effective in communicating our message. She agreed that the infographics will really help convey what we're talking about. 

After confirming that we should go ahead with this, I decided to look back at all the things that both me and Sam liked in the animations that we both collected and commented upon as research. We both liked the illustration style in the animation stills below - how its just outlines as it is clear, easily understood, nice and simple. I also remembered Sam talking about the 'Where Good Ideas Come From' video (also below), and how she liked how at the end little bits of the drawings turn into an overall bigger image.

Pulling all these visuals together, I came up with an idea where the animation/inforgraphic would all be done in one continuous line. This would illustrate that that our relationship with the planet is reciprocal and that we are all connected to each other in one way or another. After all the necessary information and statistics are explained, in a similar way to the 'Ideas' video, the video would zoom out to reveal a massive thing (probably our planet, Earth) to show our connectivity to one another. To illustrate how being careless and ignorant could affect our planet, I thought about having something (maybe our actions that are affecting our planet) cut through a line, which would shatter the whole image - showing how one thing that affects a particular thing would also eventually affect everything else.

Sam and I have planned to meet up and discuss this brief further on Thursday. I will use this time to explain my idea to her and get our heads together and to hopefully start roughly visualising bits and bobs! It will hopefully be a productive day!