The Fat cats

Seeing as bankers were going to be the antagonists in our story I drew inspiration from the 'fat-cat' painting during my previous research, and started to look into the current media and whom they were targeting as the 'villains' in this current affiar.


Alot can be read into various photographs of the main bankers of the world, such as this one. The obvious attempt to appear friendly, the gesture of shaking hands, the proud and haughty look to the one, and the over-all confidence that bankers exude are the trademarks of their every appearance in the media, intentional or by manipulation of the media.

As with tabloids there are of course various artists who have parodied the apparent greedy nature of Bankers via various sattirical works. Below are some examples that gel with our ideas quite well, and offer the right sort of humour.

After mapping out the general story, which would feature an officer worker going against greedy bankers, I decided to take the idea of 'Fat cats' quite literally and started to explore the idea.

As can be seen, it is quite a popular idea and often employed in the media, and so because of our target audience being those who read the newspaper, scouring for any news about the economic climate, it would be best to give them what they are familiar with and change very little about this idea that has already been explores so well.