Will we become our parents?

As I said earlier, my project is not just about the physical genetics that we inherit from our parents, it is also about how we can inherit emotional and personal traits from them. By this I mean things such as humour, depression, aggression, fashion style, music taste etc.

There has been a lot of discussion towards this topic, some say it is to do with the genetics that are passed down to us from our parents DNA, but some say it is to do with your upbringing. I personally believe that it is to do with the way you are raised and what your parents expose you to as a child. Some parents want to nurture their child to protect them, but this can effect them later in life as they are not accustom to the real world when they move away from home. However on the other hand some parents give their children to much freedom so they have to learn lessons themselves. Sometimes they learn these lessons from the mistakes that they make. These mistakes can vary from falling off their bike, to getting caught stealing. I'm not saying that all children that are allowed freedom grow up to be thieves, as I have been allowed a lot of freedom myself and have never been caught up in anything like that.

Research.

I started looking into information graphics for inspiration for my work. While looking for information graphics on the topic of genetics I could not find that many, and couldn't find really any that inspired me or that I thought were good graphically. So I just started looking onto other information graphics just so I could be inspired by the different styles and techniques they have used.

While looking i realised that most information graphics is vector based, using simple icons and symbols to put across their message or give the information needed. I liked this idea, but I also wanted to include some photography, just so it would give it a more realistic look, but also with the graphic look around it with the typography and icons.

Images

My plan is to have several layers of acrylic/perspex sheets with elements of an image printed on them to form my poster. I first looked at pricing.

I then started looking at printing methods aswell, and I came to the realisation that this would be a very expensive for of printing my posters. So I started to look into other forms see through papers that I could print on for a smaller price.

I then figured out it would be cheaper and more effective if I used Acetate sheets to form my poster imagery. It would be a lot cheaper and easier to get my designs printing on this as you can use a regular inkjet printer.

I will do some experiments with acetate to see if it is successful then I will use it for my finals.

Animation

Here is how I created the slide projector animation in AfterEffects.

First of all I scanned my chosen photographs and arranged them on a circle in Illustrator.

I then imported this into AfterEffects and positioned it so you could only see one of the photographs in the composition. I then rotated the circle so the next photo would be revealed. Leaving a few seconds for the photo to be viewed until it rotates again and the next photo is revealed, and so on.

Later I will add the information graphics animated to the photographs.