I  have come back to this first year fresh faced and ready to create some strong outcomes, but being back has made me realise that I have got so much to learn!

For the first task of the first brief we were given the opportunity to say thank you to someone, making sure we clearly address language (visual and written), tone, context and process and methods of production. It was quite a vague task to complete so I found finding someone to thank pretty difficult. Once I had sat down and spoken to sally about a few ideas I thought I had a clear understanding of what I needed to achieve.

  I was brainstorming for a while and thought it might be quite a nice idea to thank chickens for eggs, cows for milk and sheep for wool as I have quite an obsession for drawing animals at the moment!

After a having a tutorial with Sally I soon realised that I would not be answering the brief as you cannot really say thank you to chickens and that maybe I should have a look in to who I could thank who is helping animals. I looked in to the r.s.p.c.a and various other animal charities but I thought about pinpointing my thanks to just one person so I rethought the idea. I then remembered that Hugh Fernley-Whittingstall made a program about battery farming chickens and that he was really trying to make a positive impact on how we rear and eat animals in the U.K. So who better to thank than him.

I want to produce something thats visually and personally appealing to him and something that answers the brief properly. I thought about what Hugh would want to receive as a thank you to him for changing the way the public look at battery farming. Therefore, surely giving him a product of what he was trying to achieve (people getting involved in maintaining free ranged lives for chickens) would be a good idea? So if i sent him some eggs from home reared chickens I could re make a label and thank him on that. I know he has probably got enough eggs, but I think the gesture is very personal to him as it would make him feel fulfilled that he is making a difference to the way animals are being treated.