For the second set of words I started by deconstruction them individually.
For the word pride I wrote related words like victory and achievement, I wrote about how flags are a symbol for pride, flags can represent country’s, political ideologies or groups of people.
For the word arrogance I wrote that it meant when some one will not change their mind and there think they are all ways right, I found that thrown’s and crowns can represent someone thinking there are above other people, all so the symbol off a megaphone can symbolise someone drowning out other peoples voices.
For the final word humility which is the inverse of arrogance I wrote that it means you listen to others opinion and have a low sense of importance, a symbol for humility could be someone praying as person believes they are lower then god, other symbolise can be someone raise they hat or someone lending another person a open hand.
For the second set of words I was interested having flags as the focus point and having a flag that is a metaphor for each word, and all the flags would be graphic images oppose to colours and abstract shapes which flags normally are.
My tutor suggested to look in to Asafo flags which were made by the people of the Golden Coast which is now the country of Ghana, they made the flags to represent their loyalty to the British empire.
In this video from a creator from the Tate museum he described the ports in the golden coast having hundreds of these flags.
I made scratches of six flags two for each word, a flag that had a generic geographical area, a flag that had a man in a suit with a crown, a man praying, a flag with six little flags inside, a flag with a microphone and a flag of a man raising his hat. When reflecting on these drawings I thought that these outcomes had to be 3D because a 2D image of a flag can’t capture the feeling of what a flag represents.
I started by getting some pattered fabric and painting it white, then a painted on with acrylic paint the concept for each one.
When reflecting on these the photos I took of them I thought that the flags worked well together and had a sense of playfulness. On the other hand I thought the flags are flimsy and the paint made the fabric to stiff so they couldn’t flow around like real flags, also when I photographed the flags it was hard to get them all in frame and in focus.
After tacking the photos I dissuaded to scrap the drawings on the flags and make an outcome that would incorporate video, I thought of having three videos next to each other which had flags in them and each video would be a metaphor for each word.
The first the video is of my dads union jack which represents pride, it is taken from below which gives it importance, I all so tinted the colour yellow to give it a nostalgic feel.
The second video which represents arrogance is of someone throwing an American flag at someone else’s face as they are trying to do some laptop work, the American flag was chosen because it has so much significants as it is the most powerful country. the flag is so big that it doesn’t even fit in the frame and its bright colours stand out in the white room. If I were to film the video again I would put the camera on a tripod so it dint move with the flag.
The third video represents humility it is of a tiny flag which is coming out of the pavement, in the clip a man walks by and doesn’t notice it, a tinted the video blue so it would make the rainy wether more pronounced, the bad wether, rain coat, and wellington boots in the video all tie in to the theme of Englishness, as you can say that humility is a tradition English trait.