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.

History of zoetrope

A zoetrope is one of several pre‑film animation devices that produce the illusion of motion by displaying a sequence of drawings or photographs showing progressive phases of that motion.. We had to make one of these by drawing 12 images 6 of these must be a continuous image moving then the other 6 have to be identical this is to give the illusion of continuous movement. The zoetrope is one of several animation toys which were invented in the
19th century, as people experimented with ways to make moving pictures.  
The zoetrope appeared first in England in 1834, then France in 1860 and
finally the United States in 1867. The "Daedatelum" was invented by William 
George Horner in 1834 and renamed "Zoetrope" by French inventor, Pierre Desvignes. In "zoetrope" you might recognize the root word "zoo" from a Greek word meaning animal or life. "Trope" is also from Greek and refers to things that turn.

Freedom 63

I have moved onto my 63 pages after i have done a little image research... The 63 pages are made up of 10cm x 10cm pieces of different materials from wallpaper to card with things such as newspapar, black paper, brown paper and sugar paper, this was to add variety to our work, we also have to use a range of medias so we can show what we have learned over the past few months... I began my 63 sheets looking into birds and flight, escaping the cage to fly free but then i moved into figure heads such as Mahatma Ghandi, Martin Luther King jr and Buddah. After i looked at buddah i looked at religion and how people turn to or from religion, the thing i found most people turned to religion from was mental health problems so i began looking how people feel trapped within themselves and how they can escape their own minds to be free from the darkness holding them back.