Editorial Workshop

In an effort to enhance my ability to access visual metaphor creation a workshop was organised where we would essentially go through the much larger five week task in less detail over the course of a couple of hours. In small groups we were all given an article and then told to deconstruct that article followed by thinking up and creating visual metaphor in the form of imagery with the knowledge gained from deconstructing that particular article. Initially i thought this workshop would not go well for me as it took me a considerable amount of time to deconstruct my own editorial article.

I am unsure whether it was the change in the article or the combination of my group members but we managed to quickly come up with very effective visual metaphors for our given article. I was surprised at the rate we discovered new ideas, I found that each group member contributed equally to this phase in the workshop and think that we worked extremely efficiently and effectively as a small team of only three members.

After this we then moved onto creating the imagery that would relate to the article, once again my group quickly came up with roughly five effective uses of visual metaphor that related to the article. I thought these outcomes were very effective while avoiding being too literal, especially for the small amount of time that we were given to complete this task.

Finally we would take one idea and sketch out imagery for what that might look like, my group chose the visual imagery “A wax strip pulling off parts of a landscape”. We thought this was the most effective visual metaphor due to the fact that it most directly shows the effect of single use hair removal products on the environment, as well as leaving more potential for further imagery with more development of the concept.

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Overall I felt this workshop was overwhelmingly positive, many other groups seemed to also produce equally as successful outcomes in the short time that we were given, this workshop gave me additional knowledge as to how to deconstruct a given article quickly, yielding effective visual metaphors, I feel as though doing something similar to this once again soon would only make me faster and more effective at extracting effective visual metaphors from articles, overall improving my own editorial work.