Peer Review

Today we had a peer review session looking at our visual journals. I found this session extremely useful, it helped to highlight new ways to experiment and explaining my rationale to the group helped me realise where I was wanting to take it, what worked well and what needed to be changed. I have revisited my rationale and made some changes to make it clearer. The start of my visual journal concentrates on the doorways between worlds that fiction and escapist activities are often described as and the differing views of these activities. I think I need to make clearer comparisons between the negative and positive views of these activities, I could place opposing opinions and theories on opposite pages to make the comparisons easier to understand. My work so far has been based on authors and theorists views, it was suggested today that I try and find some illustrators that deal with similar subjects in their work to see how they tackle the issues. It was also suggested that I start to experiment more, start thinking of different was to illustrate the doorways and portals. I could make holes in the pages of the journal to create the doorways and portals I am trying to illustrate. I should look at children's books that use cut out and pop-up shapes to get some ideas of how to think outside of a flat page. In my essay I compare studies and opinions to draw conclusions about the impact fiction has had on society, both positive and negative, and whether society would function without empathy. I concluded that there a both positive and negative aspects of both escapism and empathy but one thing that was clear was just how powerful fiction is and the scale of it s influence on society. I would like to try and explore this through my journal.