Unit Summary/Discussing the Brief

The main exam topic I was given at the start of this unit was meetings and experiences so I immediately began brainstorming and came up with a number of ideas to do with people/places which I thought a meeting between would be interesting. I then decided on doing a pirates map because of the meeting between pirates and treasure. After doing research of pirates and looking at artists who have used similar ideas, I found a piece of work by Nick Edwards called Dinopopolous. This gave me the idea to produce the map as a set of end pages for a book about pirates who get sucked into a whirlpool and end up on a foreign planet. The book also had a slip cover over the end pages so I decided to produce one of these as well. I then went on to develop my ideas and experiment with a variety of techniques which I was hoping to use in the two pieces I hoped to produce for my final.