Week 2 Day 1 : Creative week

For this week we were given a one week project where we had to collaborate with the graphics pathway. We were paired up into groups. My group consisted in Lea (LBM), Jason (MP), Matt (MP), Natalie (Graphics) and Alice (Graphics).

We began by watching a presentation of different ideas and materials to inspire us with this weeks' project. The idea was to create something physical and by using means which we do not usually use. Our aim in this project was to combine all of our different ideas together from our Final Major Project and transform it into a 3D object or indeed something created with our hands.

For our group, this day consisted in sharing our FMP ideas and trying to figure out in which way we could link them all together. We wrote down our main themes on a piece of paper and tried to find common links between them.

The major themes we had to work with were:

Feminism- Lea

Relationships - Matt

Integration- Louise

Shape and Form- Natalie

Mythology- Alice

The main link we found between these was the idea of a character. Our first major idea was to create a sculpture while integrating all of these themes together. However, as we discussed these ideas further, our project idea morphed into the idea of projecting fire onto the sculpture itself to make it more powerful ( spurred in particular by the ideas of mythology and shape and form).

We liked the notion of projection so much that we decided to turn the idea upside down and project our final piece onto a mannequin to keep the idea of a character made out of fire.

We divided the group to perform different roles: Matt, Lea and I would create the fire through photography, whilst Natalie and Alice would create the piece. They would add on anything as they went along which would enhance the reality to their themes.