OUGD505 - Studio Brief 1 - Research into BBC 90's - 2000's

With the BBC being the hosts of the event, it is important to research into their background at the time and gather any resources that could inform my design decisions.

One piece of content which I found relating to the BBC is their television 'Test Card F' at the time. This is ambiguous and not directly related to the festival however, it does represent the 'BBC after hours'. Incorporating this may be a subtle technique to represent the BBC and will target the nostalgia of the audience of the 80s-2000's. This technique may be a trigger to jolt or bring back memories from this period of time in the viewers life which is exactly what the aim of our exhibition will be, to remember the events via our poster designs.

Test Card F, as seen on BBC1 from 17th February 1991 to 4th October 1997

Drawing from past experience is of the upmost importance within this project to hopefully really relate with the audience in a more personal and meaningful way.  If I were to say just design a poster of people dancing, then the poster might as well be any dance event. It is important to target the years surrounding the event with techniques, popular culture at the time and subtle messages to really convey and capture this millennium aura.

'The card was developed by a BBC engineer, George Hersee (1924–2001), father of the girl in the central image. It was frequently broadcast during downtime on BBC1 until that channel went fully 24 hours in November 1997, and on BBC Two until its downtime was replaced entirely by Pages from Ceefax in 1998, after which it was only seen during engineering work, and was last seen in this role in 1999.'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_Card_F


With the event being held in the year 2000, I really want to draw on this idea of a new millennium and create a graphic response which is a monument for the turn of the century. With the Test Card F being decommissioned in 1999, I think this could be the perfect opportunity to represent not only the BBC hosts of the event, but also celebrate the start of a new millennium.




One other aspect to draw influence from is the start of the digital revolution, this is enhanced by the expansion of digital music around this time.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/timelines/zsgv34j