10th junee 2010

Today has been a good day :) i am really enjoying this project as you the freedom to do what you want. and its ART!

first thing this morning we got our breif from sir, we have to create a peice of artusing black&white photography its got to be 3D so it could be free standing or hanging in mid air, it could be a circle or an idea i had was a dice! or maybe even something like an installation. Theres no restriction on size so it could be a BIG or small as you want. it could be personal to you or say something about you, it good to be brave and be creative. we learned that our focus point our starting point was the word BELEIVE!

So we then had to research the word beleive. i got photo that represented the word beleive, i typed it into google and hands and flowers seem to come up alot,. i think hands came up aloot because they represent pray and peacefulness. Skies popped up a lot aswell, maybe because angels and god give people hope?

I didnt really think about just how many meanings BELEIEVE could have! like you beleieve in ourself and have confidence, you beleieve in someone else and rely on them. You could beleieve in god and or a religion. You beleieve in hope and ambition that if something bad happens its for a reason, and you beleieve you can acheive your dreams! a found such a lovely photo when i was researching, a little girl holding a flower. its all black and white with just the flower in colour.its so cute yet so simple and is so peaceful! its almost like she is making a wish and holding onto it tight. another picture i found was like a cartoon woman. its called Fragile beleief and this again includes hands. almost like she is trying to hide behind her hands OR her makeup! like the make up is a mask a barrier. WE then had to brainstorm everything we thought was to do with beleif, some things popped up that i didnt think of! so i quickly wrote them down :P

after this we took our concept photos, i was working with jamie and melissa. We didnt really have a core idea, we just went out with a camera. Even though we all knew we wanted to use water we didnt have any ideas on how to portray it. so i came up with the idea of having coloured water being used instead of normal water. Jamie came up with the idea of using powder paint to make it colourful. Jamie picked a nice calm blue and i chose a bright neon pink. We went outside and had no idea what to do. in the end we found a big beice of flat wood leaning up against a wall. jamie out it flat on the ground and it just started from there. we decided to just throw the water from opositive directions and catch it at the moment its in the air. jamie was taking the photograph and me and melissa where throughing the water. you HAD to communicate with each other cos you had to know when to throw it and when he was taking the picture.

we uploaded the pictures we took onto the computer and to make them stand out we edited them on photoshop. brighten the colours and darkened the background so the relevant bits stood out. blurred the background and saturated the colours to make them POP. some pictures turned out better than others. on some we completly missed the water and n others we only got one colour of the water. i was very happy working in the group i was working with and i felt we worked well as a group. I'm very proud of our end photograph and pleased with how it turned out.

Looking forward to next week where we start considering ideas for our OWN final peice!! x