Studio Visual Representation of a story (week 5-8)

When I was first assigned with this project, I had a lot of difficulty understanding the idea and the concept behind it. I wasn’t sure what we were allowed to talk about as it could be about anyone’s story, either pulling something online or interviewing someone. When we were partnered with someone in Seminar class, we were supposed to connect that person’s photograph to our studio work. This confused me even more as I was already partially confused on who’s story to tell and how to relate the two classes together, especially when the photograph of my partner’s didn’t really have a story behind it. The photograph that my partner showed me was a portrait of her grandmother when she was in her early twenties. From this, I tried to focus my story on portraits and so started researching on Warhol and his work as he did a lot of portraits in his work. I drew out a story board of his life but after talking to Julia, she recommended me to focus my story on something else. After telling my concern to Annamaria, she told me about a story of her grandmother. I found this very compelling and decided to focus my project on this instead. Her grandmother had Alzheimer disease and so I did some research on it just to get a better understanding on it. After doing some research, I drew three sketches that I could base my project off. What I ended doing was a spiral, representing the stages of Alzheimer disease as well as connecting that to Annamaria’s story with her grandmother. I photographed scenes of the story and stuck it on the piece while having the words of the story deteriorate more and more as the story continues. This is to simultaneously represent how Alzheimer’s disease worsens through the stages as well as her grandmother’s personal experience with it. Overall I thought I portrayed my story well through the product but thought it could be cleaned up and presented in a better condition if I had more time to work on it.

Week 5 template: Visual Story board plan

These are individual sketches uploaded separately:

We also had to critique another person’s idea on the project to help them develop the piece. I critiqued Liam’s sketches and writing and told him where he could begin telling the story and what to focus on more.

Week 6 template: more developed ideas on a sketch

 

Notes on research I’ve done on Alzheimer’s disease

Week 7 template: final product and presentation

This is the story that I have stuck onto the wires of my piece.

Photographs of the piece:

Individual photographs used for each scene:

Week 8 template: template of a putting a template together