Sketch

This picture above is a picture of a sketch that I've done which outlines the webpage that I'm creating.

The top row is basically what you'll come across when you first come on to the page and the bottom row is what happens when you click on the picture and it opens you up into a different page. So basically you'll see a few pictures that are clickable and when you click on them a new page will open up with text and you'll read the text and learn more about deforestation. You'll also have another little picture there as well.

Inspirations

In my initial research while brainstorming I came across this picture which inspired me to do Deforestation and I actually think I'm going to do my own representation of that picture as well. Here's the picture here:

After seeing this picture I went to look on to other artists who've done similar things and these are the pictures that I've took some inspiration from and here the web address if you want to look at the website for yourself. http://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/3318/top-10-collage-artists-hannah-hoch-to-man-ray 

 

These have inspired me to recreate the picture with the tree stump and the tree by taking a picture of a tree stump and then taking a picture of a tree, printing the tree picture off, ripping it and then taking a picture of me holding the torn picture in front of a black background and using the magic wand tool on Photoshop to get rid of the black background and placing and editing it to the right place.

The artists above are called: Hannah Höch, John Stezaker and Jesse Treece. The reason I used a website of the top 10 collage artists is because it gives me way more information on them! Take Hannah Höchs' pictue for example, this is what was written about it. "Höch’s most famous work, effortlessly titled ‘Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany’, shows her ideals and techniques in synthesis. A collage of newspaper clippings, the work challenges the racist and sexist codes upholding Weimar Germany. Throughout her career, Höch would challenge the marginalised place of women in twentieth century Germany. She drew together fashion magazines, illustrated journals and photography to pioneer a form bent on demonstrating that art itself could be collected from the everyday clutter of modern life." This gives you tons of interesting information and what the picture is about and why she created this specific image.

Contact Sheets (10)

The reason I took so many pictures and didn't use them is because I wanted to get to the best pictures. My ISO was at around 150 at first because I thought It'd be a bright day but then my pictures wasn't quite coming out okay so I  changed the ISO to about 250, the shutter speed was on F4 and the apperture was set to the smallest one because i wanted to get in all the details. The pictures all came out really well and im glad that I went and took them.

Survey Monkey (primary research)

I created a survey for people to go through on survey monkey to see how much people really do know about deforestation. All of these results were quantitative and I'm going to show you all the results below so you can also see for yourself.

In this picture you can see that the question says "How much would you say you know about Deforestation?" and all 5 of the answers were "A little bit". This just shows that people do not know what deforestation truly is and how much it's really impacting our environment.

Here you can see that people may think that it's high demand for herbal products or paper that causes deforestation the most when really it's palm oil when only one person picked palm oil as to what causes deforestation the most. This just shows the lack of knowledge people actually have when buying products.

So in this picture I asked people where they thought deforestation is happening the most and it turns out that 60% of people knew deforestation was happening the most in Barzil and yet no one is doing anything about it?

Next is how many football fields of trees are being destroyed per minute and it turns out that only one person knew that 40 football pictures were being destroyed per minute when 40% of people thought that it was only 20 and 30 football pitches destroyed per minute which is scary because people need to know how real this situation is.

In this next picture you can see the question is asking how long until 3.04 trillion trees are destroyed and no longer here. It turns out that 20% of people ticket 350 years, 60% of people ticket 400 years and only one person ticket 300 years and the real answer actually is 300 years. Now this shows that people really have no clue as to how fast the trees are being burned and cut down.

In this last picture is the last question in the survey and it's asking people how long they think all the trees in the rainforest will last in this current epidemic and not one person chose the right answer which was 40 years. 80% of people thought it was 50 years and the other 20% thought it was 65 years. For all these different reasons I think that I've chosen a good subject to write about because it educates people on a subject where most people aren't too sure on it.