BIOGRAPHY: ROSALIND FRANKLIN

New project started. We all got given a name of a person that we will be researching and in the final piece create a piece that symbolises a part or this persons entire life.

I got given the scientist Rosalind Franklin. Most famous for her part in the discovery of the structure of D.N.A. A story that is filled with intrigue and mystery. In short the story goes that the researchers that achieved the Nobel price for the Double helix model four years after Rosalinds death by Ovarian cancer admitted a book written by one of the researchers that they had used Rosalinds research without her knowledge to help with their own work. Rosalind completely unaware of this when she died.

I have decided to focus on the feministic aspects of Rosalinds character. After reading a lot and watching this documentary about her it is clear that she was a very fierce and confident woman that knew what she wanted to do in life, no matter what her family and friends said. And that is something that i admire and can relate to.




My final piece will probably be an animation as that is an area that i want to become better in.

AUTHOR MANIFESTO: PART 3

This is our finished manifest. We skipped our first idea and went into a more graphic novel/ kids book way of storytelling to get a better narrative throughout the book.

Paper craft and stop motion animation inspiration

Found this amazing illustrator named Ollanski that makes awesome papercrafts.

http://ollanski.com/

Here are some tips and inspirational materials for how to make my own:

http://studentz.squidoo.com/paper-cutting-art-techniques-how-to-cut-intricate-patterns-projects-for-beginners

Also these animated films made me think a lot about how i could apply this to my own practice.

38-39˚c by Kangmin Kim
http://vimeo.com/22683060

Back to the start by Johnny Kelly (He had a VP talk a few weeks ago. Really inspiring man.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMfSGt6rHos#t=45

AUTHOR MANIFESTO: PART 2

These were my drawings in response to looking at the book of keels and old bestiary drawings.

The first one explaining how humans are destroying the planet and magical creatures take refuge in this safe haven hidden in the depths of the forest.

The other is an introduction to my creature and how it is connected to nature and appears to kids in need.

Unfortunately these were scrapped and we decided to go for another idea with a better sense of narrative. Kind of like a children's book, but with more of a dark tone to it.

AUTHOR MANIFESTO: INSPIRATION

We sat down to talk about our plans for making a manifesto for our creatures and the world that they live in. They live in a magical forest glade which is nourished by Rosies slug creature that lives in a tree in the middle that the other creatures take care of to make sure that the forest will continue to grow. One subject that came up was also their issues with humanity. Humans are destroying the planet and the forests are getting smaller and smaller making this glade one of the final safe havens for other magical creatures that take shelter in their glade.

For inspiration of style we decided to look at The book of Kells and classic Beastiary illustrations.

Book of Kells:

Beastiary:

AUTHOR GENESIS: PART 5

The shoot was so much fun. Everyone in my group got along very well. Everyone got to direct their own scenes with their creatures and i filmed after their storyboards.

Photos from the shoot:

AUTHOR GENESIS: PART 4

The next part of this assignment was to get into groups and make a film about the creatures that we had made.

We were assigned the word MEET to have our film revolve around our creatures meeting. After in depth discussions of our creatures personalities we came up with this idea of all of them being invited to a party and their personalities showing in how they react to the invite. And since all of the creatures reside in the forest we filmed in parks nearby school. And Jacksons character lives in a cardboard house which explains the set we built. I did the filming and editing and helped design the set.

Here is a link to the video:

http://vimeo.com/86696883 

This is the costumes in my group:

Rebecca:

Sam:

Taylor:

Margo:

Jackson:

Me:

Rosie: