Year 1, Term 1, Project 3. Dance This Mess Around.

Aim - To produce a visual review of a dance track in the format of a t-shirt

Brief - You are required to produce a visual review of one of the dance mixes provided using text and image together. The format for this project is a t-shirt, use the digital template provided to produce your final design. You are required to print out your final design on the template provided on a sheet of A3 paper presented professionally. You are also required to hand in all supporting research and development work. You are required to produce your review ‘text’ in the format of one word or a short statement (positive or negative) and then illustrate this word or statement. The image and text are to be included in a single design in any size or colour on the front of the t-shirt.

   In order to create intuitive and immediate responses we carried out a quick group exercise. We listened to all 20 of the tracks provided and spoke as a group for 30 seconds about each one, discussing the first thing that came into our heads for each track. This technique was especially effective as the music was unfamiliar to all of us, it seems the house music genre’s popularity is stuck in the 1990’s. 

   I found that this exercise released me from the pressure of having to think of an effective idea and led me to simply consider the subject and the music itself, therefore planting the seeds of numerous ideas. From this exercise I followed the path of a number of ideas along with personal research related to them. Finally arriving at a conclusion.

   Again, the assessment criteria for this project was primarily research and idea development based as opposed to considered final outcomes. I completed this project in 14 hours as it we were urged to be intuitive and instinctive. Finally, I have been unable at this stage to gain permission from the t-shirt template owners to publish the final image, I will simply post the image without the template.