After the Christmas break, we are put into random groups with people from the different pathways – 3D, Fashion Promotion, Fashion Textiles, Media Production and then Visual Communication Design. This did make me anxious because I didn’t know how the week was going to go, whether I would have a good group with people that actually wanted to do work, or if I would get along with the people in my group. However, the week did go really well. Our group worked really well together, we was able to communicate about everything in a well manner, we spilt all the jobs up so we all had equal responsibility.
The objective behind the week was to create a collective, it would off been not so much a party, but like a happening, or an experience for everyone to enjoy. We wouldn’t be actually physically creating it, we are just planning the experience. I think a behind objective to the week was to try and get to know people in the different pathways, try and make new friends with them.
We created a mind map of our interests to try and get to know each other, and what we would all be interested in doing our project about.
This was our mind map of what we wanted our idea to be:
The roles are at the bottom of the work.
We focused our project on ‘Control through society’, this was the mission statement:
We are aiming to convey governmental control through photography/GIF, brought upon us through technology; how we are constantly being watched and controlled in our everyday life. Every person’s life is fixed, controlled or being watched in some way. However, everyone has a different version of this because no one lives the same life. For example, the life of a school child is completely different from someone in the working class. Personal lives also have an effect on this.
We are going to be using photography as the main outcome, as photography can be extremely powering and graphic. This way it is also easier for the audience to imagine and understand the experience of control in a social environment.
As a physical feature, we will be making a cube that has all the photographs that we have created and edited so that it can be interactive for the audience.
Technological control whether forced upon us, or self inflicted determines everyone’s everyday life
I created the LOGO for our project which we named ourselves ‘ISPY’. I created it on illustrator, which was a little bit hard as I am still new to the software.
I also created photography using pixelated webcam sort effect. These are the photography edits that I created.
Foundation Art & Design - Sophie Davidson 