FMP BRIEF AND STATEMENT OF INTENT (SUBMITTED)

FMP BRIEF

• After exploring and refining various points of research, investigating further into the idea of perception in relation to our bodies, our personas and they way we see ourselves vs the way other people see us, however, from a feminist perspective has become such an interesting focus point for my final major project that I am passionate about. Self -led questionnaires led me to discovering that my target audience would be people of my own age who interact with the same media that I do, this is due to researching into first wave feminism and second wave feminism which had concluded a while ago, it was thoroughly exciting to explore the complexity of new-age feminism, with talking points such as companies exploiting the public and capitalising off our insecurities, to the way other people’s views can have a detrimental psychological affect within us. Using this as my focus of research led me to creating a large amount of experimentation using tactile collages, my own photography, mistakes and accidental outcomes, poster design, mixed media, collaging my own collages and really pushing the realms of experimentation within my own field, which also led me to my potential final outcome ideas. Instead of creating a more commercial zine, I prefer to create a hardback collage book with elements of poetry and writing inside to make my outcome slightly more artistic and less commercial, and therefore staying appropriate to my concept as it is quite personal and abstract. This led me to creating a series of collages within Task 2 of this brief.

FMP STATEMENT OF INTENT

• I will start my final major project with more primary research, as this always forms the basis of a virtuous project; surveys, questionnaires, photographing my surroundings, writing down notes and poems, mark making, collecting objects and scanning them in as these have proven to be successful. This will lead me to intertwining this with secondary research, responding to these creatively in a sketchbook with no limitations, to then going back to researching as this is a cycle where it constantly needs to be changing and evolving. This leads me to creating mockups, trials and prototypes, which, with peer evaluation, one to one tutorials and more questionnaires and surveys, will improve and start to form the final outcome(s).