On my return to school after half-term, we swiftly moved onto looking at the exam criteria and how we can build and generate ideas relating to the exam theme of Freedom and/or Limitations. The first task I completed in order to aid my development of ideas for I may wish to carry out for the exam, I gathered with a couple of other members of my class to create a brainstorm which outlined different keywords surrounding the concept of freedom/limitations. During the lesson we collectively came up with several; ideas in which we could possibly explore over the next few months. Considering freedom and limitation is such a broad criteria, it was relatively simple to come up with many ideas but also quite a challenge because it was difficult to transfer out ideas into how we would produce a series of photographic work surrounding it.
After out group task and then discussing our ideas a class afterwards, I decided to create an online mind map of what we had started thinking of. Below is the image if the online version of my mind map. I created this on a program called WordItOut which allowed me to insert specific works into the software and afterwards, it would generate a colourful and creative bundle of words of different sizes and colours to replicate the look of a mind map. This was a quick task I thought would benefit me as it allowed me to re-write what I had already written in the group task and it is presented in a creative way. This task was intended to allow me to pick a handful of keywords from the long list already created and create a more detailed mind map outlining the key words in more detail where I talk about what I could explore in each idea.
Freedom and limitation is very broad and so I have decided to quickly group together several keywords from each binary opposition. In my more detailed mind map I will divide the page into freedom and limitations and talk about a few possibilities for each. I am still unsure on what I actually want to explore for my project because it is so early on in the process but these tasks are intended to allow me opportunities to weigh up my most preferred options and discard the ideas I dislike to allow me the chance to understand more so what it is I want to carry out for my exam project.
As well a using my own knowledge of what freedom and limitations mean to me already, I will also utilise the exam booklet which I have been handed and this covers different starting points students cab use when they are exploring the subject of Photography. This mentions different artists and their works at which we can look at for inspiration as well as introduction to what freedom and limitation can entail and the history of art and visual communication in relation to freedom and limitation.
Below is a Word Docuemnt version of a more detailed look at different possibilities for what I could explore in my project. However these are pony starting ideas and it was an opportunity for me to quickly get my thoughts down about each category. When I progress further into the exam work, I will be required to think more carefully about what exactly it is I want to work on. The concept of looking at fashion as a means of freedom is something I am most attracted to and this was the first potential idea I thought of when the exam criteria was revealed because of my own passion for fashion and expressing myself through clothes, following trends and being unique in my own physical look. I already have an envision of what the final product could look like but still need to plan and research until the point at which I have several thoughts for different paths I can take.
