Wednesday, 11 March 2015

Assignment two: Finding your voice


Assignment Outline
 
Intent is a major factor in arts practice. There needs to be motivation to research, experiment and develop your ideas.

Consider a subject close to your heart – something you feel passionate about. A subject that you feel people don’t understand or appreciate sufficiently.

Choose a photographically based form of communication or storytelling that uses devices like metaphor, allegory, collage, graphs, montage or a mixture of media.
You need an idea, a way of interpreting what you’re concerned with, and you’ll need to develop your visualization through testing and experimentation. You may initially have no idea what your images will look like or how they will be formed. This is normal. More and more answers are revealed and the pathway becomes clear through research and experimentation. You may go down a particular path, hate the result and step back – that’s fine. Testing, experimenting and communicating with your tutor will get you there in the end.

Discuss your ideas with your tutor by phone or email then produce a statement of intent of no less than 250 words. Email to your tutor for their comment (not approval – this is your work and it’s your voice that matters). Produce a specific research book for this work and send it with your assignment -- or start a new page or tab on your blog.
Remember that you’ll be assessed against your statement of intent which should state your academic and practical intentions – what you’re going to do and why. It’s important to stick to this once you’ve agreed it with your tutor – but you can develop it further past what you set out to do.

Justify everything you do – even printing on paper as opposed to fabric or metal.
Your work should reveal the development of your ideas, your experimentation to make visual decisions and the intellectual basis of your decision-making. Your work should communicate effectively and produce the feeling or response you’re aiming for.

Produce a series of 10 images of minimum size 16x12”.

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