A Story About Beacon Hill Architectural Commission
THE PUBLIC HEARING
I went to the public hearing with Linhui, which is about the Beacon Hill Architectural Commission. I chose it because as a foreigner who never attends such meetings before, architecture is less conceptual and more literal, which is easy to understand the whole structure of the meeting. And I am also very interested in architecture.
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| I don't like the atmosphere |
This was a monthly public hearing on Thursday, October 17, 2019, at 5 p.m., the whole process can be seen on the website.
The difficult part of the meeting was they talked in a very deep voice and so quickly, even I recorded it, it took me a long time to figure out what exactly they are talking about.
There were two cases impressed me a lot. One is the APP # 20.347 BH (Violation 19.078) 24 Joy Street Proposed Work: Replace existing window signage with new signage. The other is APP # 20.409 BH 28 Pinckney Street Proposed Work: Install new roll up garage door. They are all about the violation.
In the first case, the lady presenter was so emotional and the faces of the hosts are so cold, it was easy to have a picture of powerless and powerful.
In the second case, we interview the presenter, he was a lawyer hired by the owner. In the interview, I got a lot of valuable information, like they had prepared this for a long time, almost one year. It was quite a long process, and his proposal was rejected several times, so this time he prepared a lot of fine documents and pictures. He had the confidence to win, however, he was questioned by one of the citizens who came from civic association architectural committee, the bricks they used to build the side work in front of the garage door doesn’t fit the standard of Beacon Hill’s. This was the detail that the lawyer never noticed, so he needs to prepare for the next month’s public hearing.
In the second case, we interview the presenter, he was a lawyer hired by the owner. In the interview, I got a lot of valuable information, like they had prepared this for a long time, almost one year. It was quite a long process, and his proposal was rejected several times, so this time he prepared a lot of fine documents and pictures. He had the confidence to win, however, he was questioned by one of the citizens who came from civic association architectural committee, the bricks they used to build the side work in front of the garage door doesn’t fit the standard of Beacon Hill’s. This was the detail that the lawyer never noticed, so he needs to prepare for the next month’s public hearing.
THE ZINE
These two cases are dramatic and full of sense of the story so I want to adopt one of them into a comic zine. Finally, I chose the case two to be my story because the pictures of that case are more easy to understand, and I can put them directly in the zine.
At first, I decide who should be my readers, then I think I can draw a children’s picture book that can invoke their curiosity and a basic understanding of this meeting. This is also because as an international student I am more like an outsider in this kind of meeting and I don’t want to touch so deep for the first time.
Therefore, I draw the people as cute animals and try to tell the story simplistically, avoid to use dialogues, only use pictures that are easy to understand. I chose the lawyer to be the main character, try to show how he prepares for the case.
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| The original set of characters, the lady cat is from the caseNo.1 lady, was canceled |
Moreover, I also want to make some innovations. I realize that the way we fold the paper to make zine leaves a room between page and page, which I can use them to hide to pictures from the case. In this way, I can easily draw my readers’ attention, the kids might feel interesting and care more about what happened in this story.
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| The room between pages |
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