As I stated, its a way of logging every part of my journey in order to get to my final idea and when I say every part, I mean every part! Faults, doubts, thoughts and experiments.
Like I said, I wanted to be honest. Every artist goes through doubts and lack of motivation. I keep doubting myself and thinking what am I actually doing? WHAT do I want to achieve? What do I want my end result to be?
so......I'll answer these questions, in order to really KNOW what I want and to fully understand my idea.
It is certain that my end result will be a website, a platform which I can showcase my work, professionally. Firstly, on the homepage, will be my name in which will be recognised as my profession name 'Hannah Emily Alice Kemp'. The design of my name I have already thought of. However, it is imortant that I know that it's not just showing my work as a portfolio. It's more of a showcase of the project. And everything on that website links together and aesthetically pleasing for the viewer.
As well as the logo itself, I wanted everything to be kept very simplistic. Nothing that will take away from my work.
IDEA
As this is a place to reflect, it's the only place where I can fully log EVERYTHING I'm feeling...As I said above, this blog will hold all my doubts, ideas and inspiration. I have been really struggling what to say on this blog and where to start. In order to reflect, it's only right that I log right from the very beginning and let you all know exactly how I got here and where I want my idea to go and what I'm going to do to make it come to life...
It all started with my dissertation and practice idea, my question was to reflect upon the role of image manipulation in the portrayal of beauty within contemporary fashion. I knew it was an on going issue within society, but I never really truly sat down and thought about the affects it has on us, especially young girls and women. As I can express this idea in a more personal way on this blog, I will be honest in saying, I've never really struggled with my appearance, which I felt was why I didn't really know the life threatening affects the media has upon society. The purpose of the dissertation was to gain an understanding of the affects of image manipulation, and how it is perceived within contemporary fashion, and the portrayal of beauty within society. It is believed that mass media create an unattainable body image towards consumers, especially upon young women, forming an misrepresentation and causing difficulty for the consumer to differentiate between what is reality and what is false. In order to help me discuss this topic further, I began to find relevant research drawn from various studies that include indication of how image manipulation is portrayed within contemporary fashion and the perception of beauty and body ideals.
In conclusion to this I found that it is believed that body ideals are perceived as unfeasible
due to the fact that beauty retouching and image manipulation has evolved and
became an extreme, popular occurrence in the majority of fashion and beauty
advertisements. It is very apparent that beauty retouching
has contributed to the cause of body image disturbance and concerning health
issues due to consumers taking body image to extreme measures, It is only when
delving into the depths of the affects of beauty retouching and what the
consequence it faces. Women
who read fashion magazines revealed higher expectations of being thin. As
consumers they tend to follow the advice in hopes of gaining acceptance and
developing the ideal body. Adjustments are already being made within this movement,
it is believed that fashion photographer, Peter Lindbergh has been involved in
photographing celebrities with no beauty retouching and explaining that image
manipulation should not define or represent women of today. Similarly, the
interview conducted specified the evolution of fashion photography and a new
ethical approach, portraying natural beauty and in hopes of reflecting this new
movement upon society. (drawn from my dissertation)
As a result, it is apparent, that the media portray models within advertisements in an unattainable way, resulting in society to gain a false perception of beauty. Also, exposing a cause of body image disturbance and physical health issues. such as anorexia and bulimia.
IDEA! DING DING DING DING. ( Whilst writing this, I genuinely just thought of an idea.........fill you in later) reflecting really does help and blossoms your idea even more! I NEED to jot this down before I forget!
As well as my dissertation, I also created a practice along side that reflected my idea in a creative outlook. Unfortunately, my practice was my downfall, and in all honestly, I didn't get a great mark in my opinion and my tutor, Flavia agreed also. I already knew it wasn't strong enough, I was so focused on the dissertation itself ,that my practice was probably done half heartedly. However, as I wanted to draw my research from my dissertation further, I thought this would be a perfect idea to truly experiment with this topic and as it will be a practice, I will be able to showcase the concept in it's strongest form and use my feedback from the dissertation and practice in a constructive way.
FEEDBACK FOR MY PRACTICE FROM MY TUTOR, FLAVIA.
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