FMP Evaluation

Once I had changed my FMP I decided to focus more on the body language and the facial expression. From the interviews I had taken from my peers it had formed my final idea which was to the appearance of a person who has a set style so when meeting their friend with their change it would be drastic. The Whole project was successful to an extent to where my artistic background had been explored using impasto painting which had made body language and facial expression develop into a solid idea. The short film had after editing complimented the paint by turning into an art film and worked well. If I had more time I would have looked into a promotion and where this video would have been useful. Would have gone into how appearance changes a person as well as their peers and used it as a campaign in trying new looks.

 In my final outcome I had made a film which I had consisted of four people which knew each other well enough to know their appearance which I had changed and the focus of the film was the other person reaction to their new appearance as well as their own reaction. With painted acetate I used them to cover the lens to disguise the body language for the audience to interpret for them self what the story is behind the paint. My original project proposal had change as initially wanted to focus of how people become friends using body language and their appearance that can encourage this friendship, but instead I looked how two friends adapt to each other which is read through their reactions which could then be taken further into people changeling their comfort zone and trying new things with whom they feel comfortable in.

My fmp blog helped me form a physical change from my original proposal to my improved idea as the initially the base of the project wasn’t strong enough, so I was able to document the process much easier. My plan helped me schedule when I was to focus on but some part had overlapped for example when I looked at two artist after I did a bit of experimenting who linked and I developed using those artist work. Throughout my a sketchbook my work flowed easy  but I couldn’t document the actually videos I had taken which meant I had to rely on the blog which felt like I had missing parts from my sketchbook so I have had to take screen shoots.

From the project plan I had achieved visiting the galleries and another few unexpected ones in Berlin and during the project. I had used the definitive book of body language and artist to develop the research on body language. I had also researched two artist who helped me develop my work to disjoint the image. Instead of finding spaces where people would meet I had interviewed people on their preferences on people appearances. I had experimented with a short film with the painted acetate to cover my models faces which wasn’t in the project plan but worked well and featured in my final (I used the stills).  Once I had developed the paintings I had progressed into my final film which had then been filmed edited and taken stills from the film.

The developments that was contributed to my final outcome was from when I first experimented with the painting on acetate .which firstly started with placing on top of the photo then developed to hide or suggest what’s going on in the photo which become the signature look throughout my work. It focused more on the effect of the paint then the people who took part which lead to the final editing that the discussion was made that the sound was to compliment the picture and not to focus on the surrounds and what is being said in the shirt film.

The advice given to me at the start and mid way through FMP was

Two artist who my work reminding them of which helped me develop my work. I had also been suggested to visit the Richard Hamilton exhibition which was the start of my inspiration. At the end of my project I had been told about this website style like me which two people with opposite style which their attire for a week, sadly it was too late to use as a reference but will defiantly use this in future use. As I was talking to my tutor and messing around with my painted acetate we had realized if I got someone to hold the it in front of their face I could create a film.

From this I have taken away how to edit a film, from the sound for the backing how to cut scenes, zoom in and out and hopefully next time I edit films ill will be able to do it by myself and learn few more ways to edit and even use more profession editing. From this I realized how useful blogs are to document my work as much of my work had changed at the beginning it was hard to document this in my sketchbook. This would be a useful idea for my future course because there is only certain type of work that can only be blogged then a sketchbook. I learnt how to be very critical of my work which leads me to believe that but learning new tech in a short space of time helps me develop my work better.