On Friday, after we made our elevator pitches, our peers provided feedback via post-it notes. This was incredibly helpful because we got a lot of rapid, honest feedback for our work. Creating an elevator pitch was a useful exercise in and of itself because it allowed me to hone in my ideas from investigate to communicate my plan clearly, and that justification is at the core of being a visual communicator.
By and large, my feedback was positive, but the kicker question was ‘so what?’ why would an audience care about these stories. I think my goal is to create something for the hyper-invested community: people who have siblings with autism who can relate. Too, I think the stories could provide a window of understanding into the complexity and individuality of atypical minds in general.
Even though I have a somewhat clear overall vision, the nuts and bolts will require a lot of planning. Essentially what I am doing is creating a snazzy scrapbook of stories and images, but that means a lot of sourcing for stories as well as a lot of time to plan on the back end for a nice assembly of the publication as a whole.
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