final major project

Evaluation for 'That's killer'

A lot of my research with my briefs blends into one, as it should as my design practice and statement encompasses everything I do, but in particular some of the research I did for 'My Idea of Fun' was extremely relative to this brief. I was stuck on a final major brief and began researching into criminal minds, it was Ed Gein in particular that sparked this brief. I was getting extremely aggravated by misinformed people on forums and blog posts inaccurately portraying how he actually was(as if i'd know) and so I wanted to do something about it. I read a lot into his life and upbringing, and was interested enough to try to find films on his life, one in particular really annoyed me, as the opening scene showed him about to rape a young girl and I switched it off within minutes.

I didn't think he could be classed as a serial killer, or a killer in general. What people most often forget is that we are all born with a brain, and sometimes chemicals within our brain, either present at birth or caused due to experience can alter our perception of morality. This brief was important to me as I wanted to get across the mental state of some of these people, because sometimes we can all too often get caught up with the atrocities of the crime rather than to sit down and research into them. The film aggravated me because I can categorically state that Ed Gein did not derive any sexual pleasure from anything he did. This brief was easy to expand, because I knew that people weren't ordinarily going to pick up magazines about serial killers, and the easiest output for my information would be television. I related the magazines to a series on 4OD which I came up with, which then allowed the viewers to order the magazines should they be further interested or simply want a piece of the program.

The unfortunate thing is that I didn't send the correct amount of pages to print and so two of them printed wrong, I'm going to rectify this so that I can take them to interviews in the future and be happy with them.