Intial Ideas . .

Our initial ideas stemmed from making 

• Dictionary : Informative but not humorous, too long.
• CD - Casset tape - Download : Not easily and instantly accessible, anti-social. 
• Leaflet : Generic
• Youtube blog - Video tutorial : Anti- social and not instantly accesible.
• Poster : Generic

But we came to a conclusion that we would make small flashcards/booklet that would be distributed into fresher packs as its instantly accessible, a great conversation starter and simple entertainment. 

Design . .

To get a grasp of how to design of our flashcard/booklet we brainstormed ideas and came up with making  caricature of the stereotypical person and having 5 top phrases around them with the meaning and phonetic spelling also, so our audience can understand and learn how to say them.

Character Design . .

After Identifying which accents we wanted to use, we brainstormed ideas as a group of the features we wanted our characters to have, specifically stereotypical ones so they where easy to identify and relate with. Most of our inspiration came from the reality TV programmes we watched such as The only way is Essex, Geordie shore and Desperate scousewives. We also wanted the characters to look cartoon like so it would increase the humorous tone we wanted to portray.

Through our research of cartoons and charactures we came to a conclusion that we would do the characters in the style of Dean Gray a previous Leeds College of Art student as we felt his work was inspiring and would tie in with the humorous tone of voice we wanted to portray.

http://www.letsmakestuff.co.uk/

We then discussed the top traits of each character and drew small sketches of what we thought would best represent each region and then transferred the ideas onto Photoshop to create them.