For my first self-initiated editorial I took the story A Virtual Visit To A Relative In Jail from the New York Times (29/09/16) about how friends and families are only allowed to contact prisoners via video call (inevitably bad in so many ways). I've been wanting to work on opinion/ personal pieces as it just seems more interesting for me personally, and may also allow a bit more scope- but also a challenge to handling these things in a sensitive way when it calls for it.
The idea for this piece was to draw several screens of *emphasised* glitching and stitch them together digitally. Planning to do a composition late on in the process inevitably ended up with an disjointed piece I think, and this sort of almost-comic-format might not be necessarily great for an editorial piece.
I can't decide if it's a little too dark as a piece (which I hadn't picked up on, doing each of these images separately), but it is a serious issue!
This was the original composition, but everything seemed a little small to be noticeable.
The gif format works quite nicely to showcase each image, but would obviously not work in print formats! I also think gifs are more interesting if they are less static.
In this long column each image gets more eye, but only if the format you're displaying it on allows it (i.e. not here) and also probably wouldn't be called for in print (though that would make for an interesting composition, on a big enough format)
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