Banter
Part of Final Project - 2019
In 2018, male students from Warwick University discussed sexually abusing women in a group chat. This moving type video displays the comments said in a hard hitting way to demonstrate the aggressive nature of the chat with the purpose to shock a viewer.
The video features the sound of a keyboard to demonstrate this was a typed conversation. This was a real group chat about a real person. This video shocked everyone who viewed it - especially when told that the men in this video were allowed to go back to university.
To go alongside the video, these posters could be put up in and around university to reiterate the fact that it’s not always banter - sometimes it is wrong. Hopefully they can make people think and question before they speak or do something inappropriate.
These prints are A2 and work in the form of a campaign against and demonstrating how “Banter” can be taken too far. “Banter” is a blanket term often used as a way to get out of making a mistake such as a tasteless joke or touching women without their consent.
