WEEK 2 REFLECTION

MONDAY

This week we had to create our daily poster using an article. The article I chose was one bout the knox college assault allegations. It definately forced you to think a bit harder since the way we had to design the poster was quite specific. But this poster actually turned out to be my favourite yet. I decided to use a person staring at you to make the issue more personal to the viewer, although I do agree with what was said about it looking almost empowering.

I don’t think thats a bad thing though, it actually made me think about the otherside of the issue and if it was possible to create something positive/a poster that would make girls feel empowered when they looked at it.

Sexual assault is also a very heavy topic and one that could be potentially very triggering or emotianal for many of the views. Considering we are at a university and the statistics are so high. Sexual harrasment which comes under the umbrella of sexual assault is also something I imagine many of the female students have experienced themselves. the last thing I would want my poster to do is cause emotional distress to a survivor, I would rather it make them feel less alone.

After reading that article about knox college it is clear that universities are not doing enough to help survivors or stop it from happening again. I think this could be an interesting angle to take into account.

THURSDAY

This class we looked how a poster change bring about a change. I would like my poster to do this.

I was thinking about a call to action and something that my poster could tell you to do to change the issue.

Either speaking out about assault when you see it happening or a call to universities to take it more seriously. I think talking to universities could be more effective, they actually could make a system change in the way that they deal with accused purportrators of sexual assault. I hguess it also combines the issue of victim blaming and believing the someone when they say they were assaulted. That why for todays poster I brought in the me too movement. Thats something that everyone knows about, it’s easily recognisable as a movement against sexual assault and harassment. I combined it with the books so that you could understand it was about education. I also like how the perspective text looks it would be cool to play around with that.