Tuesday, 17 May 2011
Saturday, 14 May 2011
Tokyo Wolf
I never found a pal for the Tokyo Wolf project and i feel it would be slightly inappropriate now to ask somebody from Tokyo to send me shit after whats happened there.
Illustration Final
For illustration we were asked to re-create an old image. I chose an image of Mary holding baby Jesus. My image is basically a modern day woman obsessed with plastic surgery lying on an operating table. She has just woken up after having plastic surgery and is holding her baby. In the original image Mary is looking at baby jesus with unconditional love as if he is perfect (he is perfect as he is a baby, he is pure and he is the son of god). In this picture i wanted to show the woman with no emotion at all, like her face can't show emotion because of all the surgery she's had. It's supposed to be ironic that a woman so obsessed with perfection, can't see perfection when it's right in front if her. DEEP I KNOW.
Thursday, 5 May 2011
Project 28 Iconoclastic Plastic
Turn an everyday object into an icon:
I chose Michael Jackson as my icon (obviously) and chose to put him on a piece of toast as that is something you see everyday. I designed a Michael Jackson image on InDesign and printed it off, i then transfered the image onto tin foil and cut it out with a craft knife. I put the foil over the bread and put it under the grill.
Feature Film
The TV Kid
Plot
In Billys Imagination
Billy lives in a happy house with his Mom, Dad, Sister and cat. His dad is away on work a lot so he can provide for the family. Billy has super powers but nobody knows this except from his cat mabel. He can fly, freeze time and turn invisible.
His nosey teacher Miss Summers is always getting in the way and sending bad guys round to interrupt Billys happy life. Billy doesn’t like this so he tries not to open up too much to her as she’s very intrusive.
Billys nemesis Kyle is always trying to take his sister and make her his queen, but Billy wont let anything come between him and his happy family. One night Kyle sneaks in while Billy and Poppy are sleeping, Kyle puts a flame spell on poppy to try and capture her. Billy and Kyle battle and in the end Billy wins and Teleports Kyle to another planet. Billy, Poppy, his mom and Mable fly off into the sunset to go and find Billys dad to live happily ever after.
In Reality
Billys father has left. Billys mother develops a drink habbit often drinks in front of her children, leaving the house a mess and not eating or feeding her children. All she talks about is how if Billy had behaved properly Billys father would still be around. Poppy starts to sneak out at night to drink and take drugs she brings back her boyfriend who beats her up and rapes her. Billy just sits in front of the television all the time.
Billys teacher notices Billy isn’t himself, she notices marks on Billys arms where he’s been burnt by his mother and notifies social services. Social services find everything to be okay at the house and don’t bother them again.
Kyle, Poppys boyfriend comes into Billy and Poppy’s room one night with a can of petrol raging and shouting that Poppy has been cheating on him. Poppy tells billy to run so he grabs mabel and climbs out the window. Kyle has Poppy gripped up by the throat with the can of petrol still in his hand. Billys mom stumbles in drunk and tells them to be quiet, she has a cigarette in her mouth and a bottle of wine in her hand. Realising what is going on she runs over and smashes the bottle over Kyles head knocking the can of petrol out of his hand and over the floor she then faints when she sees the state of her daughter unconscious and black and blue dropping the cigarette out of her mouth and onto the floor setting the house alight. Poppy, Kyle and their mom all die in the fire. Billy is taken away by social services.
Billy is telling the whole story from a psychiatric ward aged 20.
Characters
Billy. Billy is a 10-year-old boy living in a broken home, his best friend is his cat Mable and has trouble making friends and interacting with other people. He spends almost all his time watching television oblivious to what’s going on around him. When he’s watching television he goes into his own world and imagines himself as the characters he sees on T.V. He often imagines himself as a super hero saving his family from all the bad things that happen to them. Billy is completely out of touch with reality and lives inside his imagination with himself and his cat.
Mable. Billy’s Cat.
Poppy. Poppy is Billy’s 15-year-old sister. She is extremely promiscuous and often sneaks out and night to go drinking and to take drugs. She shares a room with Billy as the family are very poor.
Mom. Billy’s mom is also in her own world but not in the same way that Billy is. Since Billy’s dad left she pines over him and waits by the phone a lot. She takes drugs and takes no notice of her two children. She isn’t looking after the house and the bills and eviction notices are piling up. She often gets angry and takes her anger out on her children but since poppy is rarely there she tends to take her anger out on Billy.
Dad. You never see Billys dad but he is often spoken about and occasionally rings the phone.
Kyle Poppys Boyfriend Often beats up and abuses poppy, oblivious to everyone else.
Miss Summers Billys teacher, often concerned about billy.
Script
(Billy’s older self talking)
“At what age is it not okay to act like a kid anymore? Kids do what they want, when they want. They run everywhere and it doesn’t look suspicious. They don’t have to be running from anything or chasing anything, you know running just for the sake of running.
It’s ordinary for kids to sing out loud about whatever and whenever. It wasn’t that I stopped singing. I just stopped singing in front of people. And made sure I never did that thing they called ‘bursting into song’.
Dancing around became inappropriate unless you were in the correct environment and were particularly ‘good’ at it; and even my favourite thing in the world when I was a kid, drawing. I dint feel good enough to do anymore other kids were better at it than me so I just gave up.
Whatever disappeared from my life, the T.V was always there to take it’s place. I didn’t need to sing or dance or draw because it was all there on T.V.
Dad left us, but there were dads on T.V, my mom didn’t pay me any attention but I felt part of the families I saw on T.V. I had never found something so reliable in my life.”
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