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DOG THREAT

FMP- Torture (Based On Abu Ghraib)

My FMP was driven by my fascination of the prisoners held in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. The level of abuse they receive by personnel of the 372nd Military Police Company of the United States Army together with additional US governmental agencies are beyond horrific including, punching, slapping and kicking detainees; forcibly arranging them in various sexually explicit positions for photographing; using military working dogs (without muzzles) to intimidate and frighten, and in the least one case biting and severely injuring a detainee.

Using the acts committed within the Prison facility I wanted to create a series of posters to promote and stop the abuse in Abu Ghraib and raise awareness in general around us.

My intial approach is to start with illustrations, I wanted to challenge my self and build my skills with working with a pen rather the use the mac. At a later date I will eventually import it into Illustrator and add other elements such as Typography etc.

The fear of humans turning into machines.

I decided to dive deeper into the Phobia theme and selected a fear that interested me which was-

Mechanophobia- An exaggerated or irrational fear or dislike of machinery.

I took this and looked into the idea of the fear of humans turning into machines.

I decided to base my Zine on Phobias as there is an endless list of fears that people have. There are some strange Phobias out there, including Papaphobia- fear of the pope, Cacophobia- fear of ugliness and Stasibasiphobia- fear of standing or walking. They might sound riduculous but they are real.

Phobias vary in severity from person to person. Some people are able to manage their symptoms and face the feared object, albeit with a great sense of terror. Others are motivated by the phobia to avoid the feared situation, sometimes at great personal cost.

Phobias can be divided into three types: specific phobia, social phobia and agoraphobia. Although the symptoms of each type will vary, there are some symptoms common to all phobias. These include:

Terror: A persistent and overwhelming fear of the object or situation.
Physical Symptoms: Dizziness, shaking, palpitations.
Obsessive Thoughts: Difficulty thinking about anything other than the fear.
Desire to Flee: An intense instinct to leave the situation.
Anticipatory Anxiety: Persistent worrying about upcoming events that involve the phobic object or situation.

ZINE Project

In this 2nd project, my objective was to compose, edit, design, produce and publish a 'zine'. Above is the poster i did for the theme of Phobia.

After Effects for the first time

I have never used Adobe After Effects, but i taught myself basic animation effects by looking at some tutorials from the net. Here is a short short preview of it.