Prezi Protest

PDP lately has been getting us to work on different ways to express your Statement for Assessment and after having completed the poster and the kiosk we have moved onto the use of Prezi. Now prezi being an online site made it so much easier for me because at home, I don't have the use of things like microsoft word or powerpoint so doing the poster and the kiosk could only be done in college. But prezi I was able to work on at home, at my leisure. Now after setting up the kind of template I wanted there was only a few confuddling moments on how to get it to move to certain circles and having to download the images I wanted so that they could be uploaded but otherwise they were pretty good. It is definitely more flexible than a ordinary powerpoint and it swooshes around so its more interesting in general to watch too. 

Anyway, mine is still focusing on the multiples project of last term so here is a link to check that out since you couldn't see my kiosk or poster. 

https://prezi.com/h9zsudagavem/multiples-amy-downs/

Now for this week I just did some work on researching my projects and got farther with Protest than Where What Where. I looked into different signs protesters have made and tried to find what sort of style or designs they used or even the font. It has given me ideas like spray painting some of the words  onto the sign, probably just the bottom bit because I doubt it would work well all over, I'm not brave enough to try that. Some people have some funny signs and sayings that are also somewhat topical, and the ones with designs seem more illustrative or grafiti-esque than fine art so that might be a style to try. 

I also researched the "Ginger Pride" march that happened in Edinburgh a couple of years ago and found more events like it all over the world. There was also a shopping centre in Aberdeen that gave a discount to gingers or people who dyed their hair ginger or indeed just wore a wig. This one was more of a publicity stunt I believe but the march was just people trying to get equal respect. Now, I dont even attempt to compare it to more important equality issues but I do still see it as an issue, especially in Britain where we have the largest population of gingers. I have found two incidents in particular that are quite atrocious to hear about in these times over something so trivial as a hair colour. Apparently, a girl was denied the ability to go to classes about the time of her exams due to her hair colour, teachers literally stopped her coming to class for being ginger! And another was a family forced to move home twice due to being bullied for being ginger, having things thrown at them and their house vandalised.  In this day and age, in the first world and over something as small as a hair colour these people were tormented and it isn't right. So that is why I have raised the issue for my Protest project.