Democracy Day

Rghhh,
none of the images will load for some reason so I guess I'll just have to write about the great event.
Basically this was the first group day task. We were split up into groups of 5 or 6 and were given the brief to produce a poster based around the idea of "democracy." Pretty open brief all in all. So we got to work brainstorming and stuff and came up with a few different ideas. The central theme we wanted to go for was to mock democracy and it's failing, how useless the election system is and how the government is in fact not a democracy as they ignore the voice of the people. We agreed on this but had some differeneces in creative opinion in regards to the poster, as was wont to happen. So we split into two sub-groups, each researching different elements and working on seperate poster designs. My research was based upon govenment manifestos and how, although these are the promises that get them elected, they often fail to produce. The public knows this and yet still continues to vote for the big parties. Anyway, I discovered that of it's last manifesto Labour had only managed to produce results on 3 out of 9 big promises, only a third. We felt this was a strong figure that could be central to the copy of our poster. So that's what it got designed around. In retrospect I think the message given was very good but because we spent so long buggering about researching the relevant information we had a lot less time to create something visually interesting and so the poster was quite weak. It also didn't help that I had to create it when I suck on computers. I think the group didn't work together particularly well as a lot of people sat out whilst a minority did the main work.