#daytoday part2 Reflection.

Looking back on this weeks work and having discussed it with fellow classmates and tutors during my crit I came to realise alot of things upon my own reflections and from the critisms of others.Firstly,I am glad that I took the risk and re-explored the word rebels as it taught me to be less attached to my work and more open to different avenues appearing.I feel that re-approaching the word ‘rebels’ for the 2nd time the approach was more obvious using cowboys/bandits and influences of ‘Punk’ era but one criticism I did face was ‘were Cowboys actually rebels?’And that maybe I should of focused more on southern rebels and outlaws. Another suggestion was that maybe i should of focused on rebellion in today’s era because in an age of comformity what is rebellion? And that maybe I should of focused on the politicians of today who are rebelling against the political system.Does this make them the rebels of todays society?I feel that i should of spent more time developing and reckonising elements of the cowboys piece that needed changed as it was pointed out to me that the cowboys worked well without being placed into a ‘scene’ with the poster behind them.I experimented with this and noticed the difference immediately.Visually I think the first part of my project worked better but only because more development was put into it.I also found it more aesthetically pleasing due to this.Therefore I would say that this was the more sucessful part of the project altho i hold no regrets over ‘risk taking’ and reigning the project back in to it’s original title.But it would still be interesting to see where the ‘creature like’aspect of the parcels would of gone had I not.

Lasso stop motion videos. #daytoday Part 2

https://drive.google.com/file/d/11tKFS4wLMsPT1VmWYC75MMP93u0tEL4K/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/11m5qzpFBNhLrdPuv73fYR7VB18V5_-o3/view?usp=sharing

In these videos I play about with the use of the lasso.Given more time I would like to of played about with the composition of the cowboys and the lasso.The quality of the video isn’t the best and I would proberly consider using the tripod next time I film it.

#daytoday part 2

Today i had a change of heart and decided that instead of following the route I was currently on that I would re-focus on the words ‘rebel’ and ‘riot’I started to think of olden day ‘rebels’ and discovered some old magazines of bandits and cowbots.I then decided to use the contrast of modern day rebels with the olden day bandits/sherriffs.When creating the mixed media piece I used a brick to create the background texture as i felt that this was important as it tied in with ‘hooded youths rebelling/rioting during protests’ i also felt that it was important to use orange and red to create a feeling of rage/warning.I then stuck the cut out bandits/sherrifs to the bricks as i felt that this connected the old way of rebelling to the new.

In comparison to the last 2 days i felt like i could of pushed the development further.Especially the texture the cowboys are stood on.I felt like i should of considered this more and the composition Because of this I personally don’t think this is the strongest piece.I think the parcels i made yesterday were alot stronger due to the fact i played about with alot of different compositions.