Pictures

We started Tuesday’s lesson looking at pictures. We were each given 5 pictures to look at and create a story from, we then shared these stories in groups of 4. When telling our stories I noticed three prominent factors

1.       They were all imaginative

2.       The pictures where all connected well, and the stories made sense

3.       The story was told in 3^rd person, it was an outsiders perspective

From this I gathered that we all told stories in a similar way and that gave me the idea that a lot of people in the class would probably have adopted this prominent style in their storytelling. I also gathered that this style was easier to understand, as when we put ourselves in the story it sometimes can become complicated and tangled whereas when you are telling the story from an outsider’s perspective it’s a lot clearer.

We then had to join with another person, to create partners and add both of our 5 pictures up into 10, we then had to create a story out of these 10 pictures together. I was with Esme, her story was about a girl falling from the sky into an upside down world. A lot of her pictures where of streets and architectural features of places so she used this as a part in the story where the girl character was discovering new things in this upside down world.  We had to add the stories together and the story we ended up with was Esmes story but with a few added elements of mine, such as the city element and the horse.   We then had to act the story out, so we started to put it on its feet, we went with the more physical approach without text. We lay out the pictures into a line that Esme then walked along as the girl, this allowed her to clearly respond to the pictures. We felt like the physical approach fit more with the story and was also an effective way of portraying what the story meant leaving room for interpretation by the audience.

For the second half of the lesson we paired up into twos to start work on our cabinet of curiosities group piece.

Annette Messager 1943- The Pikes 1992-3

We decided to work on The Pikes a piece Influenced by Surrealism, power in relationships between male and female, nature and culture, vulnerability and aggression. Josh and I decided to focus on the relationships between male and female because we thought being different sexes might be a visual aid to the concept, and the topic of equality between male and female is a very current and broad subject  at the moment. We did a quick brainstorm of ideas that we got down to 3 points we could explore:

·         Colour

·         Levels

·         Jobs/ Work

After just putting on some music and exploring those points with our bodies, we decided that we could incorporate all of the points into one physical piece.  We decided on doing a physical piece as we believed this was more fitting with the chosen subject and we enjoyed physically exploring  this more with bodies than through voice. We decided that levels and jobs could go hand in hand as men always seem to be on a higher level than women in the working world (averagely). The point of colour could come as a visual aspect with costume and props. These are the main ideas we had during Tuesdays lesson, I have learned that devising is easiest when having a clear subject matter in the chosen stimulus. As the artwork chosen had an overriding theme of inequality we where able easily brainstorm ideas around that broad subject and continue to experiment and build up our group piece.