Taking a Stance on a News Topic: Collage

For this project, I used a similar set up as with the salt and sand project and images that I retrieved from the Internet.

Having been asked to take a stance on a recent news topic, I picked the controversial issue of Greece needing yet another bail out by the IMF, wherein the media representations of the issue showed it to be questionable as to whether it would in fact do them any good. Their state of finance was less than what it should have been having suffered the plague of greedy bankers much most of the world that then caused the Credit Crunch.

Thus, I used a cut out of a top Greek banker. He was to open his mouth and everything on screen would then go black, showing that the greed of the banker was all consuming, but also to reveal the inner gears and cogs of the issue. To do this, I used a mother bird and her baby chic a metaphor: the chic signified Greece and the mother bird, the entities that could offer them a bailout. Of course, the baby chic tweets at the mother bird, and at first the mother bird feeds the baby chic, but when the call for food comes again, it leaves the mother bird a bit confused.

This can be taken either one of two ways: either that the baby bird is rather greedy asking for more, or that it's strange that the mother bird is confused as to why the baby chic is asking for more food. Initially, I intended for it to be the former of the two, however upon further analysis, it seems that the later makes more sense. For Greece to grow economically and get back on its feet it will require a bailout, therefore it is strange that there is so much hesitancy to helping them out. And while the mother bird prepares the food, the problem of greedy bankers can be dealt with rather swiftly.

I like the little birds that I made to represent the situation however, I feel that the meaning is not very clear in this representation, and as such, if I were to make another stab at this brief I would make my stance a little more obvious and easier to understand. This could be achieved by simply adding sound to it; by giving the characters lines that reflect what it is that I'm trying to portray.

Similar pieces that I looked to for inspiration include: Monty Python’s "Flying Circus" title sequences (1969-1974) by Terry Gilliam and Hedgehog in the Fog (1975) by Yuri Norstein.