OUGD403 - Message and delivery: Research

During our studio session today we were asked to get in a group of four and we had to answer the following:

Since October 2011 what stories have caught your attention in the news?

• Jubilee
• Starbucks not paying tax
• Chinese pandas coming over
• Beyonce having a baby
• Euro 2012
• Cruise ship accident
• Red Bull freefall
• Phone hacking
• Olympics
• Batman
• Lance Armstrong
• Batman shootings
• Whitney Houston death
• Titanic anniversary Syria
• Kony 2012
• Greece's debt
• Chris moyles
• Steve Jobs death

From this list we then had to choose three:

1. Starbucks not paying tax
2. Chinese pandas coming over
3. Cruise ship accident

We then had to comment on why we remembered those three in particular...

1. Starbucks - Remembered it as it has a lot to do with fair trade and effects us as a nation
2. Chinese pandas - Funny quotes and stories grew from this event
3. Cruise ship - It was a disaster

We were then given our next brief which is going to be an ongoing brief which will last for one month. Our task is to create a body of visual research in responses to a story, issue or theme found in the national press on Tuesday 23rd October. I will start to respond to this brief once I have collected newspapers and compared stories. I will consider how the stories are written and make sure I choose one with enough information and imagery to work with.