week four

Week four Analysing poems

This session task was to create a series of illustrations that would be presented to a group of school children. But before I started the actually making the covers, Kieran wanted to present use with an  range of themes that we going to be used for the poem covers but he also gave me some media to use as a beginning point and a understand what we would do when we giving information when creating something. Our themes were Childhood memories, Identity and inside our head. The first one I had was Children memories which was a by poem “some of these things are true” by Fern Hill. This poem was about the concept of time and memories. This was an interesting poem because it had a ton of visual props and metaphor. So I had a lot of information to go with. With this information I decide to create an illustration that illustrates sections of the poem. So my plan was to take the six paragraphs and create them into six sections. But overall this did not work because it would take a lot of analysis of the poem and add a lot of detail. If I had more time I would take up this idea. But this was just practice. The next subject was identity which we had a film which was “1928 Dadaist film” which was a film based on the concept of time and the movement of Dadaism. Overall this video contained a sense of bending reality and giving the sense of illusion through giving inanimate object movement and the concept of time was given through the rewind of the movie. With this I came up with the idea of evolution of cat changing into a human-cat. I got this idea from the movement of time and the idea of identify. My idea was that the cats lost it identify of being to animal then gain the identity of a human. The final image to create was the theme into the mind in which I had to create a image while listen to Cinq Nocturnes by Erik Satie .This classic piece of music was a mixture of soft and hard notes on the piano, while listening to music I imagined a ballerina dancing on a piano because one that was the instrument being played and also I imagined ballerina because of notes being played remind of dance movements. This image overall matches the theme because it was what was in my head, what I imagined. Overall this exercise helped me understand what would be expected of me when given information and asked to create a illustration to it. With this exercise I also took my previous information of take my time with the thumbnails which create detailed drafts which clearly visual explains what I explain to do. Also with this task in which I was given images to analysis which was a fun task and a great way to get a idea of what to do. To see my take on this, see them below.                                      
                

Ideas one

Ideas two

Ideas three