FINAL EVALUATION – 8/02/2021

This is my final evaluation for the first part of the “puropose” project.

I went through pinterest and I also saw a dazed cover which caught my eye. My original idea was to take photos of people from diverse backgrounds but because of the lockdown I was unable to go ahead with that idea, I decided to take photos of my parents and siblings and combine them together splitting each person’s face in half and trying to match them up. I got a lot of inspiration from my parents when they were talking about what they would do for this project and I took some of their ideas and came up with this idea. My work developed through the shoot I did because I would look back at the photos I took on my computer and then take more to get the perfect photo. I feel like I researched widely and in depth.

This was hard because they all had different face shapes so i had to change the idea of matching them up perfectly to matching them up as well as I could. My mums and my sisters face were the most similar so I focused on their faces but I also experimented with combining my dads with my brothers face. I feel like it falls into the category under identity and how aging changes your face.  I also took my mun’s photo and over photoshopped it which I feel also fits into the theme. I feel like one of my spice photos would work well too so i am going to include it too.

I used my english skills while writing up the artist research and my plans for the shoot. I used my maths skills to make sure that the photos were the same size.

I used a backdrop and two led lights for this poster instead of using natural light and it was so much easier and better than using natural lighting. I also got all my family members to wear the same tops so it didn’t look weird. I used procreate to edit the photo of my mum and then photoshop for combining their faces. I tired to push myself to do new thing i was planning on taking self portraits but I thought it was better to take photos of my family. 

I feel like my outcome communicates my ideas around diversity very well. I feel like if we weren’t in a lockdown, I could have created a better outcome. 

I enjoyed this topic. I wish we were not in lockdown so I could have completed the idea I had at the start. The only thing i didn like about this topic was how fast i had to do it. It felt like time flew past and i felt like if i had more time i could have created something better. I feel like I engaged with the diversity project well and I feel like I covered the majority of the tasks and the requirements. What helped me with engaging with the topic is looking on pinterest. I go to pinterest for a lot of my ideas or for inspirations and it really helped with what style of work I should do. Whenever I wanted to have a break from writing and researching I would look through pinterest and would look through different ideas. 

I am most proud of the amount of research I did and how my final outcome came out despite being in a lockdown. I am least proud of not doing more self portaties. I want to go into more depth with each artist’s study.

I learnt that I need to be more confident with taking photos of myself to use instead of always asking my family.