I was nervous in today's session because I was going to receive my project brief for this unit. Plus, I did not think I was ready photographic wise because I only used the manual cameras once and everybody else in the group used it twice. In previous units I was not afraid of receiving my brief because I was prepared. Anyway, in the beginning of the session, we got told our brief. We did not receive it on paper, we had to make notes on it and write it in our sketchbooks. Our project brief was to create a piece of art. However, it has to be a specific type of art. The art has to be:
- Photographs
- Black and white (negative)
- A mixture of things
- 3D/Instillation
- Suspended from the air/Mounted
- Different shapes
- A book (optional)
- Something out of the box
- Personal to you
- Can give a meaning/Gives an impact to audience/Gives a story/etc. (optional)
I knew this was going to be hard because I have no idea what to do! Our teacher gave us a topic to help us (or confuse us in this case). This topic is called 'Believe'. To help us, I and the rest of the class did a brainstorm about 'Believe' (what comes to our head when you think of 'Believe'). In the end of the brainstorm, I had to come up with three different topics which relate to 'Believe'. My three topics are:
- Impossible Things
- Government
- First Impressions
water again for our photographs because it is one of the main things in 'Dali Atomicus'. We were so carried away with water, that we used water in every photo we took (except the self-portrait of me with a surreal face). I actually used the camera again. Unfortunately, it was not a manual camera. 'Dali Atomicus' is surreal and I wanted my photos to be surreal as well. I found the most unusual thing in the most unexpected place you can find. I found a used condom on the school fence and I thought that would be a great idea to use this because it is surreal. I had the idea of pouring water all over it as well to emphisise the surreal-ness. People thought it was quite disturbing in a good way which is good because I wanted to practice making an impact on people when it comes to photography. Even Mr Hind had an impact when he saw the image that I took. One artist called Franceca Woodman took disturbing negative photographs such as naked woman, women being hanged and more women being crushed by doors. These created some kind of impact. Fortunately, people loved the sense of impact, but they were still disturbing. This made Woodman a very famous photographer. However, she commited suicide at the age of 22. The best image that me and James ended up with was the water being thrown into the air. I actually took this image and I got the timing right. The water created a pattern and it captured every individual water droplet. I am proud of this and I and James have worked exeptionaly hard today to get these images. In addition, it showed the concept of 'Dali Atomicus'.
My target again is to control my 'temper' if things do not come right (if I cannot think of an idea for the project). The brainstorm helped me a lot. 
Next week, I will be focusing on mainly what I could do for my project. Plus, I could try to develop my ideas from my three topics that I have chose by creating drafts of some sort. It has been fun actually taking photographs and making the best one for my group. I am pleased with myself.
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