Semi-Final Piece

This video is a trial-run of my actual final piece to see how well it would work, and to see what kind of reactions we might get so we know how to act when it came round to doing my final piece.

I decided to do the trial in my class (a Year 11 art class) to see what kind of reactions we got out of them, although there will be a difference between the way the Year 7 class acts and the reactions in this class as the the Year 11 class, as they are older, were more calm and mature about it. We did however get a varied reaction from the class, which allowed the people who are going into the class to understand the reactions and in turn know what to expect and how to act when they go into the Year 7 class.

Explanation of Final Piece

For my final piece I decided to continue to use masks to replace the face, as I preferred the effect of the masks and how it hid the identity of the person underneath it, and the reaction of others to the masked people.
In my final piece, I will send a group of 5 people, each wearing one of the masks, into a class of unsuspecting Year 7 students during a lesson. I will then record them, also wearing a mask to hide my identity from the class, as they move around the classroom and the students, capturing the reactions of the students to the masked group.

Final Piece Trial 3

For my third trial, I decided to use masks to replace the face. The use of masks allowed the people in the video to use their arms more than in the other trials, as they didn't have to hold anything up to their faces. They also add to the mystery of the video.

Final Piece Trial 2

For my second trial, I decided to use signs to replace the face, each with different things written on them.

The question at the begininning of the video- "What do you hide?"- was the question that I asked the people in my video, and I got them to each write down their answer on the pieces of paper. The ripping of the signs at the end was used to show that they wouldn't hide those things anymore; they wouldn't let them control their lives.

The signs used in the video

Final Piece Trial 1

For my final piece, I have decided to create a video based on replacing faces, so in my trial pieces I created videos based around replacing faces with different things.

For my first trial, I used photos to replace the face, each conveying different emotions, with the face only being revealed at the very end of the video.

Replacing Faces Collages

Project Brief

My project initially looks at portraiture in general, for which I researched different portraiture artists, including graphic artists, photographers and painters, before going on to use different methods and materials to create portraiture pieces, including monoprints and tonal studies. After investigating portraiture in general, I decided to look into replacing faces.

I chose to stem my project off into a different, more specific topic while I was approaching the making of my final piece. I looked into fire and burning in art, alter egos and schizophrenia art, before deciding to create my final piece based around the topic of "replacing faces"; I looked into different ways of replacing faces, including the use of other photos, words and masks. I decided to create my final piece in video format, so I also looked at video artists. I then combined these ideas to create the trials leading up to my final piece.

Video Art Research

Three Transitions

 Peter Campus

1973

Ocean Without a Shore

Bill Viola

2007



Aujourd'Hui

Pipilotti Rist

1999

Clown Torture

Bruce Nauman

1987

Compositions

Each of these compositions were created with the use of Photoshop.

This composition is a development of my work based on photographer Rebecca Parker, who uses natural settings in her photography work and was created using images entirely from the internet, one of which was taken by Rebecca Parker. This was created by blurring the background to begin with, before cutting the portrait images used out of their original images with the quick selection and eraser tools and importing them in as 3 separate layers on top of the background layer. The same method was repeated with the flower images which were then placed over the top of parts of the portrait images. The text was created by typing out the words "Nature", "Beauty", "Flora", "Blossom", "Freedom", "Peace", "Tranquility", "Serene", "Calm" and "Oasis" into separate text boxes using the type tool, duplicating these layers numerous times and placing the words into rows in the background of the images.

This composition was also created using images entirely from the internet, and is based on my "Behind the Mask" research. This was created by creating a new canvas for the background and using the paint bucket tool to fill it black, and then cutting each of the portrait images out from their original images using the quick selection and eraser tools. These were then imported onto the new canvas as 3 separate layers, and the text, a dictionary definition of "mask", was then created in a separate layer with the use of the type tool and was then placed in the top right corner of the canvas.

This composition was created in a similar way to the previous 2 compositions, but was created using my own images, unlike the others. To create this I opened the first image, which is used as the background, and then cut out the two portrait images from their original images using the quick selection and eraser tools and imported them onto the background image as 2 separate layers. The text layer, which is a quote from musician Alex Gaskarth, was created using the type tool as another layer and was placed in the top left corner of the image.

Graphic Work on Photoshop

"Behind the Mask" Interpretations

"Behind the Mask" Research

Barbara Kruger Interpretation

Barbara Kruger Research

Barbara Kruger (born January 26, 1945) is an American conceptual artist. Much of her work consists of black-and-white photographs overlaid with declarative captions—in white-on-red Futura Bold Oblique or Helvetica Ultra Condensed. The phrases in her works often include use of pronouns such as "you", "your", "I", "we", and "they".

Fire & Burning Art Research



Broken Heart- Vibeke Friis

Burning Sensation- Aqil Lamantine

I Hate You- Debdyut Sarker

Feeling Bad- Ben Heine

Pencil vs Camera 16- Ben Heine

Schizophrenia Art Research

A2-NHS Campaign- Schizophrenia- Thang Le

Cloth embroidered by a schizophrenia sufferer

Schizophrenia- Clive Branson



Schizophrenia- Denis Savoie

Schizophrenia III- Louise Leppard

Schizophrenia- Nadine

Schizophrenia- Nadine

Schizophrenia- Severine Arend

Schizophrenia- Thomas Marquez

Schizophrenia- Tywak

The Advantages of Schizophrenia- Roy Skolgvold

The Face of Schizophrenia- Aiobhan Wilson

Tamara de Lempicka Interpretation Pieces