Week Two

DAY ONE

During this week there was more planning involved than anything else, as I thought I would go back to mind map and establish it to something that is not so common to defining the destruction term. First of all it wasn't going so well and then I thought of the psychological ways destruction occurs or why do we want and like destroy things? With these questions in mind, I did a survey asking people, 'What makes you angry?' and all the replies were very adult like and serious i.e. bills, people chewing loudly, liars, etc. But for some reason this was not working, I wanted it to be something fun and not peoples life problems, it was too serious. So I decided to look at younger generation; children, as they seem to destroy things whether they are angry or happy.

DAY TWO

Group tutorial that occurred with my tutor and other students was valuable, as I was able to listen to other peoples ideas and to be able to let them hear my idea and give an opinion about what I have so far. Overall the feedback was positive, they admired the angle I was approaching the theme, but I had limited research to show, as I only had a few images and that I should conduct more. If I was doing a two week project, there would of have been double the amount of work in my sketchbook. By seeing other people's projects and there concepts so far, it made me want to push myself and produce more. One thing that was holding me back on using my sketchbook, was that I was afraid to start as I wanted to present my work clearly and neat, this is from me being a perfectionist. In general the tutorial was genuinely good as it helped me come up with creative ideas to develop my concept.

DAY THREE

I began planning experiments to have a group of children and do two experiments; the first: restricting them when colouring/ painting and then the second: give them as much freedom as they want. To record it by video and photography and this will be conducted on the Easter Break as I am able to have use the children. I want to make my research stronger I will conduct a survey with a class full of children, to understand why they like to break things, what makes them like to destroy things.

Week One

First week of FMP

My theme is Destruction is the action or process of causing so much damage to something that it no longer exists or cannot be repaired.’ I will be looking in the different sides of destruction they can be either personal or something that happens by a force. For this project I will use a broad range of research which will be enabled by the university Library, the internet and gallery/ museum visits, which may allow me to conduct images, film and text. For the final outcome I am not set on what I will create but from the research I gather and the development stages it will lead me to a final outcome for the project. I want to see how I can create something that can be translated into womenswear, my specialism but still commercial. For the outcome I have not decided what it will be but I envision that it will be a garment. I will be using Adobe Photoshop for development but I will need to learn how to use the software Illustrator to for final designs. As a proposal I am aware that this project will change and adapt.

This week I spent most of my time preparing for my assessment but I managed to do some basic research on the theme; planned to visit museums/ galleries and looked at secondary visual references. I failed with research as I didn’t find what I wanted, I felt that I was lost and there was nothing out there that could help me to develop on further with my idea. So I decided to do a quick mini mind map that allowed me to establish more things that were not so obvious to my first initial thoughts. On my way to my university, I discovered a building that had been destroyed, burnt down and windows had been boarded, it reminded me of destruction. It allowed my creativity to begin flowing and come up with more ideas on how I can go on further with the theme. I thought the pub was astonishing as it contrasted from what was around it, modern with old. Many companies advertise on billboards and the layers of posters sometime get demolished either man-made or by the weather. Due to this it revealed layers of all types of posters. I retrieved some photos of billboards but there was one board that I really liked how it was destroyed but I left to take pictures the next day but it turned out they covered it and I missed my chance. I now regret it but it helped me realise that next time to not leave it and do it when I have the opportunity. After that I thought why not create my own destructed billboard with magazines and it think it worked well as an experiment but nothing else was going further, I just felt lost.