petras artifact blog 3:)

Today has been slightly annoying as things havnt been working aswell as i would of liked!

I began the day with taking a few test shots of things to do with "believe". i used one of the images i found of a hand with words to do with love on to develop and make a similar verson, although instead i put a split down the middle and wrote words to do with hate on the other side. I also liked the idea of superstition and luck, so i photographed a a clover (i pulled a leaf off another one and put it on it so it looked like it was a four leaf clover!) in the palm of a hand (which could also follow the idea of palm reading).
After break i began writing up some of my ideas. I wrote a quick brainstorm of a few of my ideas, which included a magic treasure chest with photo's and objects to do with magic inside, and a fairy tale book showing images of things such as princesses, fairies, evil witches etc. I picked out my favourite ideas and began to write them up in a lot of detail, and starting with a quick idea i developed them.
For my first idea i began writing about how self belief is personal to me, and said how it gave me the idea of an xfactor stage with images and lrics of things to do with self belief. I then made a few mind maps of things i thought of when i thought about the xfactor, so i had a brainstorm on singing (which i had words such as lyrics, music notes and microphones), a brain storm on dance (which i had words such as posture, types of dance like ballet, tap and street, and culture as there are lots of different types of dances for different cultures, such as irish dancing), and a brainstorm about general xfactory thiongs (such as judges, audience, talent, and tears). I then found found images from the internet showing some of these words. A few examples of images i had for singing were of a couple singing together happily, which also showed love and how if you have self belief you can make yourself happy, and a picture of a microphone. I found some interesting dance photographs aswell, which included some artistic shots of ballet dancers, modern dancers and african cultural dances.
I thought it might be usefull to research a dance photographer as it could help me to do mine when i begin making my artwork. I discovered Lois Greenfield, who focuses to photographing the movement and posture of dancers, and likes to create images that show a highrisk moments and probably movements that could not be re-photographed quite the same. Reading about her photography inspired me to take artistic and unique photo's if i was going to follow this idea.

I think i have done well at concentrating and being on task today, as i have done alot of research and writing work. However, i think i could have got a bit more done in the morning, and after speaking to the teacher i realised i could have used my imagionation alot more while taking the test shots first thing in the morning.

Next week we are going to be continueing to write up and develop our three ideas, and i will of hopefully made my mind up to which idea im going to follow!