Magna carta

The magna carta was the first written document which consisted of rules that everyone had to obide to even the king. The document is one page consisting of 63 chapters, each chapter explains a rule but no chapte contains a rule that is the same as another. 

Matisse...

We travelled to the matisse exhibition in barnsley so we were able to see his work and take a few pictures of his images and gather information about the artist himself. We also had time to take pictures of buildings around the area. When we was satisfied with the amount of images and information we had gathered we headed back to college to create a cardboard box inspired by Matisse and Samantha Groom. 

Forts!!

To begin another session we made forts out of cardboard boxes to get us used to building with the boxes provided. We then were told to demolish them slowly to use the boxes to create a pyramid which we had to communicate as a team to construct to its strongest and largest without falling! This was an easy enough task in the end! 

After we completed the pyramid we then demolished it to create a theatre (or theatre d'ombre) so we could watch a shadow show using the wire figures we had constructed in an earlier lesson during our first week. The figures were moved or shaken and we documented this using either slow motion or time lapse or even using a series of images we took from cameras.

FMP development of ideas

I began to look at native american culture in my 63 mini pieces so i decided to develop my ideas further. I did this by looking at an artist named craig davison, this artist shows children playing as a famous film character then behind them depicts the characters in which they are playing in a ghost like representation. I decided i could do a child playing dress up as a native American then in the background do an actual Native American chief with the headdress. I began to look at chiefs and their heddresses and also drew a child playing as a native american.

1st lesson of cardboard city

Our first lesson consisted of us all heading to the 5th floor, we were given pens to draw on the window and we had to draw what we saw outside the window, while doing this another person had to take photos of the progression so we could then create a time-lapse. When we had enough pictures we were allowed to add our own personal bits e.g dinosaurs, robots, dragons and aliens... We had to also document this in pictures to again see the progression. 

When we had completed the window drawing we came back up to make silhouettes of our bodies by laying down on large sheets of paper and drawing around eachother. When there were enough images on the paper we were told to select 2 images... One from either side of the room to draw on an A4 sheet, we then recreated the silhouettes in wire and then made brains, lungs and hearts for them.

We then were told to walk around the room in a group in a variety of different ways whilst someome videod this so we were able to make a time-lapse. We did a variety of different walks and some people only videod the legs or the top half of our bodies.