Group work

I think that our final display and the way that our project has come together is a real testament to the way that we have worked so well together as a group. Having not worked together before and not knowing each others different ways of working we have been able to identify each others key strengths and draw on these to make our final outcome a real success. It has been great to see how other people in the team work in different ways to be able to evaluate your own styles of working and take on different ideas to potentially develop in the future. Having come from a point where we were all researching completely different areas and topics it has been great to see this project come together in a way that clearly shows the message that we were trying to portray but still allows people to have their own thoughts by not spelling out the meaning within our presentation as it'll mean different things to different people.

Jessie

Final Display

This is our final display for our work. We have printed the two main photographs off as A1. These are the main focus of our presentation so we wanted to make them as big as possible. We have kept these in the centre. We have then put the smaller images on either side to support the larger ones. 

We have decided not to include a summary of our work and instead have just included the title which we have given our work: Crafted Conformity, Morphed Identity. This allows the audience to decide for themselves what the work is about. 

Jennifer

Making Final Work

Here are a few pictures of us making the final pieces for our work.

First we pasted the photos we had taken of people onto different types of fabric using image maker.

We then had to leave them to dry over night. 

The next day we rubbed off the remaining paper using a wet cloth.

Once dry we cut each paper out separately.

Although this seemed to be a very lengthy process. and it was irritating to see a lot of the white paper show up again once dried, I really like the overall effect this technique has given to the images.

Tammi

Final Merged Images

As part of our final piece, we decided to create a male and female image of peoples photos merged together on photoshop by changing the opacity.

The idea behind these images is to show that if we were to become more and more like each other, our identities will be morphed and personalities would be lost.

Tammi

Jen's merged photographs

We have decided to use merged photographs as the main focus of our presentation. I have created my own images to try and experiment with this and to create some alternatives for us to choose from.

 

I think the first image has worked better than the second. I got the faces more aligned so it looks more effective than the second where it os more of a blur.

Jennifer

Barbara Kruger

When researching identity, I came across Barbara Krugers work, 'Who do you think you are?' I then decided to look further at her work and found that a lot of the statements in her work seem to be related to identity.
http://www.barbarakruger.com/art.shtml

 







I think Barbara Krugers work links in well to our project as she seems to question how we look and act and if we really are unique or just constantly influenced by eachother.

Tammi

Learning how to make a video

Today an animation student taught me some basic techniques of how to use After Effects to make a video.

 

Although the video drags on and I've only used 5 images, it gave me an idea of what to do when making the video for our presentation. I think with more time spent on it and a larger amount of different images used, this could be very effective to have in the background when presenting our work.

Tammi