Feedback from the interim concept crit was positive and everyone seemed to understand and like my concept. Largely the only thing that got flagged up was my lack of visual/aesthetic experimentation, which is something I already knew I was due to do. Personally I was pretty happy with the progress I'd made at this point of with deadlines quickly looming I knew I had to start looking at the finalisation of ideas as well as just constantly drafting up new ones
These are the mock-ups I brought into the crit with me. This plan is for a double sided hot dog book, with one side demonstrating the way people work whilst consuming caffeine and one way showing them without. These scenarios are based on a mix of personal observations made from being on the go and also from the research compiled at the start of the brief in SB1. My main reasoning behind choosing this format was that I wanted something that was going to be relatively stress free when it came to production, giving me time to really focus on the quality of the illustration that goes into it - plus capping it at 16 pages means that although it is the minimum amount of pages required, it'll give me chance to work on something that is really nicely refined - a failing point in a lot of the work I turned in last module for Visual Skills (though I will have to reconsider the front and back pages in order to make them more illustrative) . I think toning down my idea and stripping it of its surreal superpower themes was a good choice, because I think its now a lot more clear and consise and more people are likely to understand it a bit better when they read it.
From this point onwards I now want to start focusing on what media I'm going to do the final book in, and work out roughly what sort of method is going to suit the narrative and the concept of the book best.
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