What is the title of your project? What will you work towards producing and what is your end point? Explain how this relates to your work and ideas and how it extends your knowledge, understanding, and creative ability. 100-150 words.
Power Paparazzi.
To start off my final major project, I wanted to present a name that would be intriguing and interesting to anybody that would be looking at it. I came up with a name that would attract people to look at my title and want to learn more about my project. Power paparazzi. I am going to work towards producing two garments. One of which will be glamorous, the other being not so glamorous, I am going to make a recycle garment using newspaper. I am going to create a character profile. My aim is to build up a profile of a fictional character. A character of which leads a very wealthy glam lifestyle, which is then ruined and taken away from them by the heavy media and paparazzi followers. I want to produce two separate photo shoots. My idea for my first photo shoot is to create a look of a luxury, glamorous lifestyle that my character lives and my model will be wearing the first garment i produce. On my second photo shoot I will set the scene to create a dull atmosphere, I will create the look of a destroyed person that has been ruined by the fortune and fame. My model will be wearing the second garment I produce in this shoot. This work will extend my knowledge a lot, I'm setting myself a number of different targets and work tasks that I haven't explored before. I want to understand and learn more about how the paparazzi really do change people's lives and look at the good and bad effects it can have on people. By making two garments and doing two photo shoots I'm really testing my creative ability on the styling and the layout of the scenes in both my shoots.
What are the influences, starting points and contextual references and why are they relevant to your ideas? Indicate the subject areas you intend to research and the likely sources of information including any museums, specific locations, performances etc. you plan to visit. However you should not make extensive lists in this section. Instead you should compile an accurate bibliography correctly acknowledging all references including texts, periodicals, websites and videos/DVDS etc. Put your bibliography into the appendix.
To begin creating my project, I brainstormed my ideas before coming up with my starting point, 'Paparazzi'. I found that paparazzi was the most suitable and relevant subject for my starting point for the research and political subjects I want to look at. I brainstormed ideas and starting points such as media, fame, newspaper articles, and i particularly want to explore the period at the time of 'The Sun' newspaper and the phone hacking scandal. My influences for this project are newspaper designs, newspaper prints, newspaper layouts. I will explore a variety of contextual references looking at artists that use newspaper prints. Artists that draw and base their own work around a typical newspaper article. I'm going to research fashion designers that use newspaper prints to create fabrics that are then constructed and developed into a garment. I am going to look at recycle artists and designers that use newspapers to create artwork and garments. For my information and research I am going to explore books of fashion and art, I will look at fashion designers and artists websites online. I am going to explore different examples of media including magazines, newspapers, books, films and music that relate back to my subject starting point in some way. I am going to visit Plait Hall in Manchester to gather ideas, influences and information to support and inspire me with my project.
Refer to any techniques and processes you intend to use. Describe the range of media and materials relevant to your project and how you might use them to explore and develop your ideas. Include aspects of studio practice, workshop procedures or the use of particular equipment and software etc. Provide an indicative timescale for your project and indicate the ways you intend to divide your time in order to investigate, develop, produce and evaluate your project appropriately. This should be a meaningful plan to you and should be personalised to your project. You may wish to write your plan as a daily or weekly schedule in which case enter your timescale in the Appendix.
For my final major project I am working towards constructing two different garments. As I'm looking at paparazzi, I want to create my own newspaper article using the program photoshop. Once I have my newspaper designed, I am then going to print that design onto fabric, which I will then construct into a dress. I will explore different techniques and types of printing. I am going to sample Lino printing, transfer printing, heat press printing, sublimation and cyanotype. I will sample these processes on different types of fabrics. When I feel I have sampled these processes thoroughly, I am going to evaluate each sample and look at what worked best and why, what didn't work as well and why. I am also going to do a pier assessment on which processes work and look the most effective. I am also going to sample different photo shoots. I would like to create an acetate of my newspaper print and project this onto the walls of my studio where I will be doing my shoot. If this works out I will consider using this process for my final photo shoots. I have devised a weekly action plan that I will include in my appendix.
How will you critically review and analyse your work and determine if it is successful? How will you identify directions for ongoing development? Do you have a method to record the critical response to your ideas? How do you propose to asses the success of your project and what will be your methods of evaluation? A supporting statement at the end of your project will help you to critically analyse your project.
As I'm working through my project, I will do a weekly pier review and assessment with other colleagues from my course. I am going to be uploading information to my blog page daily, so comments from other people that are wrote on my blog will guide me through my project and give me more ideas for ongoing development. My pier assessments will also give me an idea of how successful my work is and help me look at new directions I could possibly take with my project. I have created a notice board in my work room in college that I will be using daily to place new thought and ideas on, newspaper adverts, magazine adverts, photo shoot pictures, new inspirations etc. I will refer back to my notice board as I'm working through my project. To asses the success of my project I will evaluate all of my samples and my final garments and photo shoots. I will look at my garment construction to see if the sizing is right. I will look at my final photo shoots and assess if the styling is right. I will be uploading photographs of my final garment and photo shoot to my blog and the comments and reports I get from these photographs will help my evaluate my work to see if it has been. I am going to contact a photographer and artist by email to see if they can take a look at my work. I will evaluate what worked and what hasn't. What I will explore in the future and what processes I wouldn't use again. I have created an action plan including weekly dates and activity logs, evaluations and if I have achieved my weekly goal. See appendix. I will include my supporting evaluation statement at the end of my project.
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