Digital Photography and Imaging | Week 11

1/10/2021 / Week 11
Shofwa Alyadiena / 0350019

Digital Photography and Imaging / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media

 Self-Titled: Idea Development and Design Direction 

The first thing to start off our fourth project was to write introductions and informations of ourselves and what we want to achieve through our designs, under prompts that have been given to guide us. 

INTRO	Tell us about yourself My name is Shofwa. However, I’ve been called numerous other things starting with the letter v. I’ve gotten attached to the names I’ve assigned myself even until now. Although not replaced, I like to symbolize myself with what else I’m named after, which are violets. I’d like to describe myself as creative and a joy to be around.
PARAGRAPH 1	What is your passion? My passion is to create. There’s nothing more to it, I’ve always enjoyed things like drawing or making little stories for my friends and myself. I’ve had troubles knowing who I am or what I want. I’ve never felt like it was necessary to know, but now that I have figured out little by little what I enjoy, I’m being pulled away from it to focus on the next stages of my life so quickly.
PARAGRAPH 2	What motivates you to achieve your dream? I’m motivated by the thought of how things could be if everything works out right. My dream is really just to let others know when to take a step back and realize that nothing really matters, but in a positive light. My dream is letting everyone experience the same joy I have from living.
SUMMARY	How do you want to visualize your dream into an artwork? I want to replace my entire head with violets or purple colored plants. If I had to make it really obvious that I’m experiencing changes, I’d think of making sure both the city and large meadows are visible.

 

INTRO	Tell us about your work As I said earlier in my short biography (which isn’t much of a biography and more of my thoughts regarding what I have to do for this project), I will most definitely have a violet flower or similar plants visible. I don’t want my face to be completely seen so I’d most likely replace parts of it with said flower. I’ll take inspiration from the third poster (that will be shown in the next slide) and try to blend myself into the environment in the image.
PARAGRAPH 1	What is the concept behind it? The concept is that I, symbolized by a violet is either pulling away or slowly going back into the ground. The soil or grass is a way to symbolize the past I see as ideal. The farther the flower is from the ground the more it reaches sunlight and grows.
PARAGRAPH 2	What is the message you want people to understand? I want people to understand that the changes I’m going to experience really soon is frightening yet exciting me. I won’t be able to return to what I had before for a really long time, and I’m glad about moving forward, but a larger part of me wants to stay behind, attached to my soon-to-be previous life. Being attached to a certain past isn’t necessarily bad, and sometimes even calming. However, sometimes it ends up burying us and being unable to let go will be a burden to our future endeavors.
SUMMARY	What is your motto/quote?

After finishing the first step, I moved on to filling in the mood board, although I must admit O've always used it as a source of inspiration and motivation than I do a reference.

POSTER 1	POSTER 2	POSTER 3
Susan Maxwell Schmidt (possible color reference)	Teresa Cucala	Moki

The general Idea I went for was plants entirely replacing my head due to my camera shyness, and just went with whatever could best hide my face.

 

SKETCH #1	SKETCH #2