Chosen ideas

From my thumbnail exploring and discussions in class I narrowed my ideas down to six main concepts

the idea behind this one is a play on words ( pun) of don't just bobble along or in other words don't just agree with everything/ dont but silly like a bobble head, placement of the font vote on staring weel    

Stop living in your bubble eg stop living in a illusion/ fanstay world of everything will being ok.

positive take on a message eg your vote can make a difference. I want the imagery to be catching to the eye and unusual until you read the voting message and they connect together.      

My idea behind this thumbnail is a non realting photograph vs with the text.  

similar to the bubble idea some one being trapped from the outside word with there negative views on voting eg stop bottling up your ideas on how the country could be better every voice counts 

Act your age is targeted towards the youth since they are the largest % of non voters I want to create a image that is funny but also cringe worthy so that it  catchs the eye. with a powerful message of growing up and taking responsibility of your future   

We control them making john key or some one who looks like a paralment member being controlled by an everyday kiwi / young voter, the concept behind this idea is use your vote to control them they are the puppets we pull the strings if we vote   

Thumbnails

I thought about the non voting argument as it helps me to understand what the opposing option would be, here are some thumbnails for anti voting

When creating my thumbnails I was constantly look back at my mind map, research and De Bono thinking hats, here are some of my strongest ideas we had a discussion in class about what ideas to pursue I feel that when I look at my research people seem to under the illusion that their vote won't count so they come up with some lazy excuses, hence this is my idea behind living in a bubble/ issiuson/ head in the sand/ grow up. I want to wake people up to the fact they are being lazy and stupid for not paying an effort to our country and their future ( over 1 million didn't in 2011 ) I want to target my poster to the youth since they are the biggest % who don't vote.

      

thinking hats !

Voting posters in New zealand and America

Famous poster of Barack Obama designed by Shepard Fairey, it has become a iconic symbol of the republic campaign, many parodies have been made from Faireys design. also other examples of artistic design in american patriotism.

Below are some voting campaigns held in New Zealand

    

rhetoric juxtaposition pastiche parody

looking into ways one would use techniques such as parody to be persuasive, the visual language of putting text with an image and making a completely different message.

these are examples of parody above ^

these are examples of juxtaposition ^

an example of pastiche ^

New Zealand non voters and voters research

looking at my research into new zealand votes I found some shocking and sad stats, for example the pie chart above is of the 20ll  new zealand general election, the gray area is all the people that didn't vote ! if they had it would have an entirely different make up of the seats in parliament, this graphic also goes hand in hand with popular belief of non voters that their "vote wont make a difference" which in fact non votes votes could make the bigest difference. the other main reasons kiwis didn't vote in 2008 and 2011 are 

1) I have not voted before why start now ? 

2) i'm not interested in politics 

3) i dont trust politics.

the bigest group of non voters are the youth 18- 34, which horrible news since they are ones who future is being shaped in the coming years, they need to pick someone who takes there views and livelihoods into count. all infomation was sourced from the new zealand gov severay 

and the free infomation of the electoral commission www.elections.org.nz/research-statistics