tutorial 1

Going into the first tutorial, I wanted to discuss the structure of my dissertation and get a fully realised plan of what I was going to say. Before the tutorial, I emailed Simon a rough draft of my introduction to discuss and see whether I was going in the right direction.

We discussed the question in depth and talked about how I was going to discover where the effects of graphic design take place. Some things I should consider are:

• Graphic Design and visual culture - where its seen by children.
• Elements of typography, colour, image, people, who they appeal to and why.
• Is there anything that appeals to both genders?
• For primary research, look at setting up the experiment in a way to reveal whether peer pressure has an effect on children's choices - e.g. one group is allowed to discuss the questionnaire where as the other group is done separately without discussion. 
• Consider a younger age group than 7-11 y/o's as the larger developments take place way before this. 

Before the tutorial, I had changed my focus slightly due to feedback from the presentation. I wanted to hone in on editorial design to focus my essay and allow it to have a concise topic. From the feedback in this tutorial, I have decided to keep the focus quite broad within terms of graphic design, as it was pointed out that it's not just editorial design that has effect on children's development and it would be hard to prove how only editorial design effects them. I will still have a large focus on editorial design, but I feel exploring other areas of design, for example, packaging, food, advertising and tv shows.

For the next tutorial I need to bring lots of visual elements relating to graphic design and children of my specific target audience. I need to decide whether the age range I will be discussing will be of the older or younger end of the scale and look into the relevant theories regarding my age range. I also need to decide on the structure of my dissertation and potentially start writing Chapter 1.