Collaborated Map

Collaborated Map - Group Effort.

This map is the collaborated effort from the group. Combining all of the groups efforts into one single map. By layering the maps together, we have created a super map which is designed to drag everything together to share our ideas in the strategy to find out our main project.

Identifying Key Areas

Today I have created a map displaying the areas of my key thoughts when entering the Stonehouse area. From my initial point of view I have keyed areas from Dangerous/Cautious areas, to the calmer areas where little activity (criminal, social) occur in everyday life.

My initial plot is similar to the older maps that I have created using spray paint ideas to identify quality of buildings and street areas. However in this map I have targetted social/political change and this mainly helps identify which areas are more 'dangerous' to be in as others will not be so bad in terms to social climate and crime rates.

Key in more detail:

Naval = Blue - Peaceful, not so much social climate, richer area and contains the Social club.
Cremyll Street, Durnford Street, Strand St. etc = Green - Cautious, has a mixture of upper and working class.
Union Street and surrounding areas = Red - Dangerous, especially at night. Lower classes, higher crime rates.

I am currently planning on creating a crime level map which can identify key areas of the whole of Stonehouse which has the highest and lowest crime levels.

Postcard Drafts

Difficult To Choose..

I have found it a bit difficult to create the perfect postcard.. I'm looking for the idea of basically placing an excellent part of Stonehouse with a really run down area, basically super-imposing the excellent area and adding it to the rough areas to bring the idea of 'Improving the environment of Stonehouse'. Right now the data of photos the group have taken is very vast.

I have experimented with a few photos and yet find myself in a daze..

I have also thrown in an idea based on the past combining with the future to help advertise the feeling of embracing the past and future of Stonehouse.

Back to the future

Did Plymouth have a major airfield near the dockyard?

If so, then Stonehouse would have had glorious scenes of aircraft flying along the estuary up past the Stonehouse Marina.

Sorry for the lack of posts recently.. been experimenting with Photoshop all week!

One of the photos I've discovered from our group data collection has been contrasted so half of the image is black and white like a vintage photo from the late 30's to early 40's along with the modern day original image to contrast the new buildings and objects from the old. I have added in aircraft in formation (a lancaster bomber, spitfires and typhoons).

This creates a feeling of what it may have been like during World War 2. Because the Devonport Dockyard was so important for the British Navy, an airforce would have been provided to slow down attacks of enemy Germany bombers and other aircraft. This really makes a great example of what it would look like back then.