During the second week of our final major project we took part in a "Creative Making Week", where we teamed up with a couple Lens Based Media students to create a collaboration project.
Prior to this we were asked to bring in a few items which included, an empty bottle, torch, sponge, paper clips, a couple of buttons, a ball, a sock and blu tack. We were also given a list of words to get us started on our project such as "to curl" etc.
Using these things given to us as our inspiration , we decided to firstly start by coming up with ideas that linked to all our final major projects, in order for the week not to be classified as a waste. Our final major projects consisted of my project with my, which is Tranformation, and my groups mates' projects which included, Comics, Mental Illnesses and The Idea of Beauty. By trying to combine this project ideas we came up with one idea which we were all happy about which included a peacock.
Our idea:
A female peacock spots a beautiful male peacock whom she promptly becomes jealous of because she has always wanted to be acknowledged as beautiful, however for peacocks it's always been the males that have the beautiful feathers whereas the females have always had the dull grey feathers. When she spots the male peacock she goes up to him and tried to interact however the male peacock is not attracted to her and this makes the female peacock resent him more, prompting her to kill him and steal his feathers.
We came up with this idea because it contradicted the normal idea of "beauty" where the female species where always the one that had to be "beautiful".
After brainstorming and making storyboards we decided to make a stop motion and a comic strip which related to both our pathways, Lens Based Media and Graphics.
Then, using the objects that we brought in we tried to make two peacocks, one male and one female, out of the empty bottles, paper, buttons for eyes and paper clips for the eyebrows and hair, and we succeeded.
Overall, I believe our group worked extremely well together as our ideas didn't clash at all, we each gave a fair amount of input and we worked as a team to
However while I was working on this creative making week, I didn't forget to continue researching and experimenting with my final major project as at this point I started looking at the idea of lies and deception and so I started off by looking at Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures In Wonderland as I thought it was the perfect example of "deception". I thought this because Alice In Wonderland is thought to be an innocent child's book and film with just an element of weird concepts however in the original drugs is the main concept that is disguised, as the sugar given to Alice at the tea party is cocaine, while the mushrooms she eats are hallucinogens etc.
At this point I also researched American photographer Annie Leibovitz as well as British photographer Tim Walker because of their link within the fantasy world, as Leibovitz created Disney themed photographs and Walker allowed fairytales to come to life through his photographs.
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