Understand / Define / Ideate
Today I made huge progress, I went through many different stages and ideas and ended up right back at the start but now I have a really good understanding of what I am doing and really believe in the idea, which I didn't really before.
I started to think that the original idea was just way too difficult to visualise so I started thinking about other reasons not to vote and ended up at the GCSB spying scandal. I worked through that for a while and then realised it wasn't as strong as the original idea.
I had an idea about trying to integrate bees with the MPs so I did a lot of research into bees hoping there would be some sort of relevant fact involving young bees but there wasn't so I moved on, not wanting to waste anymore time on bees.
I then moved onto ideas for a hippy style poster to try and show how old these MPs are, as I just realised that if the average MP was 51 in 2011 then the average MP birth year must be 1960. I came to the conclusion that I was contradicting myself as the hippy style and imagery was just reinforcing a youthful feel and almost reminding the viewer that the MPs were young once, the complete opposite of what I was going for...
I researched what happened in 1960 in New Zealand and found out that New Zealand first got TVs in 1960. I started playing around with this until I realised that the connection wasn't strong enough and ended up back where I had started but with a lot more faith in the idea.
