Lily Pogson
Statement of Intent and Review
STATEMENT OF INTENT
SECTION 1 – Final Major Project Guide What is the title of this project? What will you work towards producing and what is your proposed end point? Explain how this relates to your work and ideas from Pathway and how it extends your knowledge, understanding and creative ability.
For my Final Major Project I want to explore social and personal themes such as violence and what can lead to it, such as a misunderstanding of mental health, equality for women and differences in political/religious beliefs. I would like to do this in the form of an animated music video. In pathway I animated a digital collage, perhaps I could do something like this again or at least draw some inspiration from it, this time I could include abstract and freeflow drawings, like the ones I practised in exploratory and lay them over the top of a collage background? That is just one of my ideas.
SECTION 2 – Influences, Research, Sources and Ideas What are the influences, starting points and contextual references and why are they relevant to your ideas? Indicate the subject areas you intend to research and the likely sources of information e.g. performances, galleries, specific locations you plan to visit.
Music is a massive influence in my life so one of my goals is to use a song that I feel like I can be expressive with and/or that means something to me. The significance of representation is something that I have always found interesting, for example I see everything in black and white with the positive things in bright colour so that they stand out – this is something I want to try and capture in my animation, however colours also have opposing meanings, such as red meaning ‘love’ or ‘anger’ which can be applied to the themes I want to explore. I am planning on looking at various places for my research such as contemporary art in public areas, animated music videos for research and gigs to understand how music connects people to one another and the band performing.
SECTION 3 – Techniques, Processes and Timescale Refer to any techniques and processes you intend to use, such as the range of media and materials relevant to your project and how you may use them to explore and develop your ideas. Include studio practice and/or use of particular equipment/software. Provide a timescale which indicates the manner in which you intend to divide your time.
I am aware that my time management in Pathway was not the best and I need to improve on that for this final project. I have a breakdown of the basic things I need to get done in the following months and I will put together a week by week plan in my year planner. I taught myself how to use Adobe Animate for my Pathway project and intend to use it again for this final, and potentially explore more of its features such as drawing directly into the software, making it entirely digitally based.
SECTION 4 – Method of Evaluation How will you critically review/analyse your work and determine if it is successful? How will you identify directions for ongoing development? Do you have a method to record the critical response to your ideas? How do you propose to assess the success of your Final Major Project and what will be your methods of evaluation?
I will record any errors and setbacks that I encounter as well as how I worked around and fixed them in my reflective journal. I am going to make a weekly plan of what I will be doing in college and after it ends as I usually stay late to get more work done, I will also make check lists daily about what I specifically have to do each day. I will also do my best to regularly ask for feedback on my work and ideas from my teachers and peers and try to take their words on board as best as possible. These will also be recorded as notes in my reflective journal. Due to the outbreak of COVID-19, peer feedback will be done via skype or zoom and I will maintain in contact with my tutors via email and upload my work to moodle.
REVIEW OF EXPLORATORY AND PATHWAY
What I learnt from exploratory
The exploratory stage taught me to let go and relax a bit. Before this course I never realised how strict and stressed I got over my art because I wanted it to be perfect and it actually made me not enjoy it as much. Exploratory taught me that art can be anything and that perfection isn’t something you achieve, it’s when you make something you are most proud of and you believe it is your best. The exercises such as drawing a stick with a stick were so simple but it really helped to open my eyes to this. This freedom and abstract is something I want to try and bring into my Final Major Project.
What I learnt from pathway
I became a lot more independent during pathway which I really value as it also made me more confident in talking to teachers about my ideas and getting their advice on various things regarding what I wanted to do, such as getting Judy’s opinion on whether she thought using my plaster mouths in my animation was a good idea or not, and going through Alexa’s collage booklet to find inspiration which actually lead to my final idea for the piece. I also taught myself how to use the Adobe Animate software, which not only gave me confidence in myself but also gave me access to a tool that I can now use in my Final Major Project.
Strengths
- My experimental/test animations were fun to make and as a result they turned out well
- I think I was able to incorporate a lot of my tests (plaster mouths) and research (collages) into my final piece
- I was not too fixed on an idea, I just had a message that I wanted to attempt to deliver and it wasn’t what I had originally planned it to be but I am happy with the result
Weaknesses
- I did not annotate as I went along and had to recall my thoughts at some points
- A lot of my work I tend to not write down and I keep it all in my head, so when the teachers looked through my book they saw inconsistency in my developmental stages where I thought it was perfectly fine (I corrected it)
- I tended to get flustered and would go through highs lows with my work, sometimes getting artists block for a few days to a week, to overcome this I will engage regularly with my peers and tutors via zoom and check in on moodle to read any comments left for me
Statement of Intent and Review
STATEMENT OF INTENT
SECTION 1 – Final Major Project Guide What is the title of this project? What will you work towards producing and what is your proposed end point? Explain how this relates to your work and ideas from Pathway and how it extends your knowledge, understanding and creative ability.
For my Final Major Project I want to explore social and personal themes such as violence and what can lead to it, such as a misunderstanding of mental health, equality for women and differences in political/religious beliefs. I would like to do this in the form of an animated music video. In pathway I animated a digital collage, perhaps I could do something like this again or at least draw some inspiration from it, this time I could include abstract and freeflow drawings, like the ones I practised in exploratory and lay them over the top of a collage background? That is just one of my ideas.
SECTION 2 – Influences, Research, Sources and Ideas What are the influences, starting points and contextual references and why are they relevant to your ideas? Indicate the subject areas you intend to research and the likely sources of information e.g. performances, galleries, specific locations you plan to visit.
Music is a massive influence in my life so one of my goals is to use a song that I feel like I can be expressive with and/or that means something to me. The significance of representation is something that I have always found interesting, for example I see everything in black and white with the positive things in bright colour so that they stand out – this is something I want to try and capture in my animation, however colours also have opposing meanings, such as red meaning ‘love’ or ‘anger’ which can be applied to the themes I want to explore. I am planning on looking at various places for my research such as contemporary art in public areas, animated music videos for research and gigs to understand how music connects people to one another and the band performing.
SECTION 3 – Techniques, Processes and Timescale Refer to any techniques and processes you intend to use, such as the range of media and materials relevant to your project and how you may use them to explore and develop your ideas. Include studio practice and/or use of particular equipment/software. Provide a timescale which indicates the manner in which you intend to divide your time.
I am aware that my time management in Pathway was not the best and I need to improve on that for this final project. I have a breakdown of the basic things I need to get done in the following months and I will put together a week by week plan in my year planner. I taught myself how to use Adobe Animate for my Pathway project and intend to use it again for this final, and potentially explore more of its features such as drawing directly into the software, making it entirely digitally based.
SECTION 4 – Method of Evaluation How will you critically review/analyse your work and determine if it is successful? How will you identify directions for ongoing development? Do you have a method to record the critical response to your ideas? How do you propose to assess the success of your Final Major Project and what will be your methods of evaluation?
I will record any errors and setbacks that I encounter as well as how I worked around and fixed them in my reflective journal. I am going to make a weekly plan of what I will be doing in college and after it ends as I usually stay late to get more work done, I will also make check lists daily about what I specifically have to do each day. I will also do my best to regularly ask for feedback on my work and ideas from my teachers and peers and try to take their words on board as best as possible. These will also be recorded as notes in my reflective journal. Due to the outbreak of COVID-19, peer feedback will be done via skype or zoom and I will maintain in contact with my tutors via email and upload my work to moodle.
REVIEW OF EXPLORATORY AND PATHWAY
What I learnt from exploratory
The exploratory stage taught me to let go and relax a bit. Before this course I never realised how strict and stressed I got over my art because I wanted it to be perfect and it actually made me not enjoy it as much. Exploratory taught me that art can be anything and that perfection isn’t something you achieve, it’s when you make something you are most proud of and you believe it is your best. The exercises such as drawing a stick with a stick were so simple but it really helped to open my eyes to this. This freedom and abstract is something I want to try and bring into my Final Major Project.
What I learnt from pathway
I became a lot more independent during pathway which I really value as it also made me more confident in talking to teachers about my ideas and getting their advice on various things regarding what I wanted to do, such as getting Judy’s opinion on whether she thought using my plaster mouths in my animation was a good idea or not, and going through Alexa’s collage booklet to find inspiration which actually lead to my final idea for the piece. I also taught myself how to use the Adobe Animate software, which not only gave me confidence in myself but also gave me access to a tool that I can now use in my Final Major Project.
Strengths
- My experimental/test animations were fun to make and as a result they turned out well
- I think I was able to incorporate a lot of my tests (plaster mouths) and research (collages) into my final piece
- I was not too fixed on an idea, I just had a message that I wanted to attempt to deliver and it wasn’t what I had originally planned it to be but I am happy with the result
Weaknesses
- I did not annotate as I went along and had to recall my thoughts at some points
- A lot of my work I tend to not write down and I keep it all in my head, so when the teachers looked through my book they saw inconsistency in my developmental stages where I thought it was perfectly fine (I corrected it)
- I tended to get flustered and would go through highs lows with my work, sometimes getting artists block for a few days to a week, to overcome this I will engage regularly with my peers and tutors via zoom and check in on moodle to read any comments left for me