(B3) Concrete Poetry : Crit Feedback (13/01/21)

Crit with peer group, only me and Ryan attended.
- Was really helpful to talk to someone about my brief, especially as I've been struggling with it. 

Feedback on B3:

• Need to focus on the outcome more, will give structure to the project.
• Nothing's got to look good at this stage.
• Would be a good idea to set rules, would make the design choice process faster:
  - Colours
  - Symbols, could develop a key
  - Different typefaces
  
• Should move away from a white background as it makes things look rushed and not thought through (could do a light grey or beige if wanting a neutral background).
• Idea of a website was the one he thought would be the most effective
  - I completely agree, feel it is a new way to experience poetry that works well with the brief, would allow for interesting animations and reduces a lot of limitations that are set in print. 
• Felt the animation where the type appeared as it was being read was good, more could be done with this idea combining it with the website outcome.
• Advice about using type, think about type as a box, can arrange boxes to develop layout without pressure of design choices.
  
  
  
  
  
• If wanting the text to feel like speech space is important, like the squares where the different sections were placed on different squares, this helps with the pace. 
• For website:
  - Scrolling to have text appear could be interesting, would be able to direct paace from this.
  - Big type on the website as this is the focus.
  - Horizontal scrolling could be interesting
  - Look into pallax scrolling. 

Reflections:

Ryan's advice and feedback was really helpful, it was great to talk to someone about the brief and get an outsider's perspective.
Realised I need to drop any ideas of what I want the outcome to look like and just go for it with the experimentation, can always bring things back if they've gone too far.