Description of my Project
My Terra Two project focuses on how technology is increasingly invading our privacy, this comes from my constant awareness of technology listening in to our conversations and tracking our movements without us being aware. To imagine how technology could damage society and cause a global impact, I have imagined what may have happened if current day technology existed in the 1950’s.
Synopsis
The year is 1955 and life is about to get a little less simple on the planet Proxima B, as a poster advert for a brand new technological gadget has been distributed across the world. A new device, called Alexa, has just been introduced to society and she caters to all of a human’s needs by listening and watching them go about their daily life. ‘Alexa has everything under control’ and is a human’s ‘new best friend’, but four years after her launch onto the market, society quickly realise that Alexa is rapidly taking their purpose away, and feel like she is suffocating them with her eagerness to ‘help’. While humans enjoy having to do less essential shopping and more time to do activities they enjoy, they feel they have been replaced and the technology is making their life increasingly meaningless. To make more people aware of the destruction this technology is causing, posters are created to spread awareness of how much control the device now has over people’s lives. The posters are plastered all over buildings in a bid to make everyone turn against the use of this technology and make Alexa become obsolete.
One year later and society has remained the same and Alexa is still at the root of people’s unhappiness and discomfort. Over fear and worry that the technology will only return, a mission is set by all of Proxima B’s world leaders to find a new planet so we can escape our own creations. This mission is called Terra Two.
Three years later and a potential new planet, called Earth, has been located. Earth has a very similar mass and terrain to Proxima B, however it takes Earth 354 days longer to orbit it’s sun. Despite this, leaders decide it would be more than suitable to be our new home as it has everything we need to survive. Immediately, posters are created to stress that the technology has now placed the world in a global emergency. The posters present Earth to society for the first time and it becomes a sign of hope and safety for people. In order to get to Terra Two: Earth, every individual must agree to keep the history of ever living on Proxima B a secret and live like Earth has always been humanity’s home. This agreement has been created by leaders in order to prevent the future generations getting the ideas to recreate the same kind of technology that Alexa is, it will prevent history repeating itself.
Current day 2021: While clearing out your loft, you stumble across an old suit jacket that belonged to your grandad. Whilst going through the pockets you find some crumpled up pieces of paper, folded inside one another. Being curious you carefully unfold the pages and are shocked to see three posters which depict a world you never knew existed. The secret is out and history has already started to repeat itself.
Poster One
Poster Two
Poster Three
Evaluation
I am extremely pleased with how this project turned out as I think I have brought my storyline across clearly through the three posters. I like how in order to make the full story completely clear, the posters need to be displayed together, this is why I stuck with a small colour palette as it makes each poster more recognisable that they belong as set. Throughout this brief I have enjoyed researching different movies, artworks and themes about science fiction and dystopian worlds as it has developed me as an illustrator to come up with concepts that are out of my comfort zone. This project has encouraged me to develop and adapt my art style to suit a more futuristic storyline.