Thursday, 3 November 2011

Give Me Your Organs!

My second idea for Design for Society is organ donation. This is a subject I'm quite passionate about, I'm not really sure why but there's some moral issues you just instantly support and that's what it's like for me with organ donation. Although i wasn't an organ donor when i originally came up with this second idea, i later heavily researched organ donation and signed myself up. Practice what you preach and all that!

We recently watched a series of adverts and social awareness campaigns that were broadcast over the 1950s- 1970s. It was strange seeing such different methods of presenting ideas to the public. They were all comical or politely informative, such a nice change from the adverts of today that seem to all rely on sympathy to get something from the viewers.

 This made me think about my organ donation campaign and i made the decision not to rely on sympathy and instead follow in the footsteps of these old adverts and use simple cartoons with an informative voice over to persuade the viewer to become an organ donor.

 This is my first draft of the organ donor advert.

Information about organ donation with a rough voice over
A very grim looking sketch of an original idea
Possible characters from different races that could be helped
Main character becoming an organ donor

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