Meeting with Jamie helped me to visualise how it is that my ideas will be realised outside of the sketchbook. Collage and play with building blocks will be useful to drive the composition of my final image, but from discussing the values I appreciate in Ed Cheverton's work, Jamie suggested that a physical book with 3D characters and elements bursting out of it, would achieve a real sense of energy and fun appropriate to the context of children's books. I am really excited by this idea as craft is pivotal to my practice and I feel that a 3D approach to image making benefitted my gif work and visual language response so well, it seems appropriate to develop a success of my work so far.
We identified that the abstract, shape-based character offered so much more in terms of humour and playfulness that just wasn't communicated through the brass band character. Whilst this character communicated the values of working class cultures that I am concerned with, this can translate through alternative imagery. Chimneys and mill buildings popping out of the book will be able to take on fun, cut paper shapes, whilst maintaining that celebration of heritage key to my developing practice.
Further comments were the flexibility of the book as a vehicle. Jamie suggested that if I made the book into a physical object, it could carry through in my presentation and serve as a visual device for the communication of information, that way drawing a direct connection between elements of my practice.
PLAN
Responding to the feedback received, I now need to exhaust my roughs through 3D play, using cut paper to develop compositions with depth, perhaps employing techniques considered in the diorama task of visual language. As the book is simply a visual device for the communication, I don't want to get too engrossed in the mechanics of it as a functioning book, but rather an illustration that can be appreciated tangibly outside of the poster and presentation.
- PLAY WITH 3D ELEMENTS
- MAKE A MOCK-UP
- TEST PHOTOGRAPHY AND CONSTRUCTION OF IMAGE
- CREATE FINAL ELEMENTS
- PHOTOGRAPH
- EDIT AND LAYER ANY DRAWN ELEMENTS
- DECONSTRUCT FOR SLIDES OF PRESENTATION
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