Week 4- starting point and experiments

For this session we had to prepare by considering the content and visually analysing the 3 starting points  (how they do what they do )- this will inform our experiments – we will be producing rough ideas for all 3 items based on our findings.

 Communication objectives (brief)

1. to communicate a sense of child hood in the form of an idealised unreliable memory 

2. to communicate the abstract nature of identity.

3. to communicate the introspection of thought.

Intent-  to investigate the visual communication  of abstract – feelings and thoughts


(1)
Content
theme- half remembered childhood 
poem- Some of these things are true By Fern hill  

image 1) 

Analysis of image 
-Surrealism                            - position- gesture 
-black and white                    -no context
-symbolic                               - metaphor
 -foreshadowing (fire)            -powerful image
- sticks for face, make it 
stand out as it's unusual 

De constructing the image with thumbnails 


insert image of poem with notes and analysis 






Thumbnails 

I then annotated the poem 

I then did some quick thumbnails, which I felt linked the ideas in the poem to the theme- half- remembered childhood, whilst bearing in the mind the surreal image we are using as a reference. 

I decided to focus on the first thumbnail i drew, as it was my favourite idea. I had used a line from the poem as inspiration. The line being- "All the sun long it was running" as soon as I read the line, I had an image of a runny sun, i thought this would make an interesting subject for a surreal illustration, which would link in witch the reference image. When I though about linking it to childhood I instantly thought of runny eggs with soldiers and this formed my idea for this piece. 

(2) 




                                                                                           Image 2) Alfred Bestol 
Content 

Theme- Identity 
Film- 1928 Dadaist film 

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Analysis of film

-surrealism                          -non- sensical
- time                                   - abstract
- no narrative structure         -features guns and gangs


Analysis of image

- Anthropomorphism                 - specific time of year
(yet they have pets                      -friendly colour pallet
- romantic atmosphere               - fictional- idealised
- nonsense things                      - playfull-ness
(magic carpets etc.)                  
- contrast between                      -fantasy- characters
realistic characters                      acting oddly
(the girl guides) to
fictional characters
 (the bear.)
Deconstruction of image 

I then did some quick thumbnails, which I felt linked the ideas in the film to both the theme (identity) to the reference image

I then decided to focus on the first thumbnail I sketched. To explore the theme, identity I have drawn a gangster stood in the street. His clothes are typical of a gangster yet he does not have any facial features. By doing this I feel it questions what identity is and questions the use of stereotypes. Is it the clothes you wear that defines who you are? your face? or something else completely. Unfortunately this piece is not finished. I quickly sketched in the background to set the scene. however to link it back to the illustration by Alfred Bestol I was going to paint the picture in rich colours, and paint the presence of show, with the street light illuminating the face-less figure. I felt this ascetic scene would fit in nicely with Alfred Bestol's style and be a fitting scene for the figure. However i do think that the messy lines of the pen and washed out background looks quite effective. 

3) 

Content 
Theme- inside our heads                                              Image 3)  Audrey Beasley 
Music- 
 
Analysis of music 
- leaves falling
-motion- flowing- movement
- lullaby
- melodic- dramatic ups and downs 
-atmospheric
-cinematic
-change in mood
-water falling 

Analysis of image 

- Black and white              -block colour 
- stylized figures               - dynamic line
- areas of texture              - mysterious/ sinister
and tone                             character 


Deconstruction of image- 

I then did some quick thumbnails to link the style of the image by Audrey Beasley to the theme- inside our heads, whilst bearing the composition of music in mind. I found this topic much harder than the others and found it difficult to generate ideas for the thumbnails. 

Next I started to think of ideas for a final piece at first thing was difficult, but once i listened to the music again i decided to focus on the flow of the music and try to transport that onto paper. I used just black and white, as to mirror Beasley's work. To tie the theme in with the illustration, I decide to listen to the music and to try and draw what I saw in my head, I am pleased with the final outcome, I wanted it to in some ways resemble the flow of a rough sea, as this is what I saw in my head when I  heard the music, it reminded me of the tumble of waves. I wanted my drawing to show one long continuous movement, yet still contain all the fine details, much like how singular waves flow into one another and become one force, the music flows together perfectly, yet is entwined with intricate details and unique sounds. I liked the metaphor for music being a wave.