Final Piece

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