#finalprojectproposal

[ncgonzalez-blog]

Final Project Proposal

1) What is your working title?

What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?

2) What do you intend to make? Be concrete; don’t just list vague ideas you’re interested in exploring, but describe what you will actually produce. Big words are not helpful unless they help me to visualize what you are making.

I want to make a video, about myself and how I have struggled (especially recently) with knowing what I want to do when I am older. I’m not sure if I will have a voice-over or just use the sounds from life, but their definitely won't be music. I want to convey a message of self-reflection and thoughtfulness. There will not be any resolution at the end of the video because I don’t know what I want to be when I graduate or even what I want to major in here.

3) Discuss tone, style, techniques – anything that gives a fuller picture of the formal qualities of the work you intend to make. How will the formal qualities of your work be appropriate to the subject matter?

I will show myself and what I do in my daily life, I want to kind of create something cinematic and almost dreamlike. I want to include footage observing what others do while at work. I will have some scenes where there a fast cuts and some that are longer, scenes that I’m in and scenes that I’m not in, it probably won’t be a short video.

4) What kind of experience are you trying to create for your audience?

Something that will relax the viewer but also make them understand how I’m feeling. I want them to think about what they saw after they leave.

5) What are your personal goals for this project? How will you know if you succeeded?

I just want to be happy with how it turns out, I really don’t want to have any ideas that I end up not being able to do. I will know if I succeeded if I watch the final cut of my video and I feel satisfied, and then watch it again as if I have not seen it before and feel what I want the audience to feel.

6) Create a schedule with weekly deadlines. Keep in mind you will be presenting works-in-progress for feedback on 12/5, so you need to be “almost done” by then.

By 11/9: Proposal Done

By 11/14 Storyboard Done (and start filming)

By/During Thanksgiving Break: Filming

By 11/28: Editing

By 12/5: Almost done editing

By 12/12: Final Project Done

[kbadillo-blog1]

Proposal; I intend to make an exploration in color, inspired by my past sculptures in this class, and challenge myself to create a hanging work as my final project. I wish to create a piece that is interactive with the audience, composed of several pieces. Mostly made of fiber, all crochet by hand or netting. I'd be interested in playing with dyes after the structural bits are made. Dying white fibers or wool with color and having the colored fiber interact. The color pallet would be a color pallet that I use everyday in my tattoo work, just emulated in a different medium. I wish for the piece to emulate a unity within the fiber and color, a sense of playfulness and fun. Bold. In my perfect world, I would like the work to be hanging, interactive and large in scale. Time to get to work!

[bridgettesegraves]

The pictures above are of the built up layers. The deconstruction phase has not yet begun.

[coconutxdreams-blog]

For my final project, I want to create something that I feel the need for, something that I will continue to use daily in my work. I need an apron. I want one that I can use in my classroom not only for protection, but to use as a teacher’s sample when introducing indigo, shibori dyeing next semester as a student teacher. I intend to use 100% cotton to make each piece- the main front, around the neck strap, and two straps that tie in the front- measure my body length, and stitch each part together using a sewing machine and/or hand stitching methods. I want to focus my dyeing processes on natural dyes, primarily indigo. I will experiment with adding turmeric into my pattern, but I want to focus on a dark blue and/or green color palette. I wish my apron to communicate an energy of continuous creating and experimenting. I want my students to know that I made my apron using natural dyes, and that what they create in class can be used to fulfill a need in their own lives. For our class critique, I will wear my apron and demonstrate its versatility!