Leaflet Plans

 

Section 1: Overview and intro

Talk about where and when the exhibition is happening, attract visitors in and provide all the needed information, but tell the visiters that any potential questions can be answered internally within the exhibition.

Section 2: About Chernobyl

“Why Worry about something that isn’t going to happen?”

It not only sums up the thinking that went into the minds of the government, certain plant workers, pro-government scientists, and perhaps even some civilians before the explosion. Everyone believed that something on this scale was not possible, as such, it was refused to be belived by the govenment and officals at the time within the soviet union.

Its the absolute faith in the perception of your superiority, rightness, and institutional merit that causes tragedies like Chernobyl to happen. And when comparing it to non Soviet disasters like the Love Canal clean-up and the Great Recession, it appears that many people need a wake up call like this.

Write about how the explosion at Chernobyl happened?

Eager to get promotion -> incomplete safety test involving withdrawn safety measures -> initial positive-void coefficient flaw flare-up -> steam explosion.

Give the readers small amounts of facts to lure them in to the exhibition

Section 3: Hidden Heroes

Talk about the people involved, use large numbers to attract focus and make people want to learn more.

800,000 liquidators

15,000-50,000 roentgen of radiation

90,000 deaths

minutes of exposure can cause extreme radiation sickness, resulting in painful death.

Discuss the fact of why they are being hidden. How the Russian govenment still refuse to change the death count for the Chernobyl disaster.

 

Section 4: Past, Present, Future

Talk about the long factors leading up to Chernobyl, however focus on the longevity of the impact of Chernobyl but also about how it remains a glitch on the landscape that will eventually dissapear into nothing.

40,000 liquidators were diagonsied with cancer by 2008.

200,000 people had to be relocated.

800,000 people were affected by radiation so far.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190725-will-we-ever-know-chernobyls-true-death-toll

 

My plan for the aesthetics of the leaflet involve origami techniques so that once the leaflet is folded outwards it will create a large radiation hazard symbol.

While I do think that this technique is very relevant to my chosen exhibition topic, I do think that it is however very cliche, it does not carry the serious tone of imagery that I wish to convey, I think that the cliche of the outcome does make my exhibition seem much less serious and will therefore hurt my visual style overall. Due to this I will likely redesign how the leaflet looks, however the information that I plan to input onto the eight pages remains intersting and topical to what I want from a leaflet.