Group Meeting One

After the group meeting it was decided that we would combine everyone’s ideas together to create one project piece.

We all seemed to have a similar idea of transformation throughout our pieces so wanted to really bring this to the forefront of our project.

The idea we constructed was that of nature taking over a person’s body until they are transformed into an animal. In this case we decided that a bird would be the best option as we can clearly show the transformation through wings growing out of the character’s back.

The Black Swan

Eleanor came up with the idea of human transformation through watching the film “Black Swan” which tells the narrative of a girl with a split personality disorder playing the part of the white and black swan in the ballet “Swan Lake”. The film uses the different transformations in the white and black swan to show what side of the girl is being shown at the time.

The Swan Princess

My idea was that of flowers being alive to highlight that of the “uncanny” using Ernst Jentsch’s 1908 description on the “uncanny” being ‘whether an apparently animate being is really alive or whether a lifeless object might be animate’ can be considered for flowers due to them being alive but not in the sense of being moving and having their own thoughts.  We wanted to take this into account as well.

Sketches

Ideas

We incorporated my idea through the flowers being the reason for the transformation. Flowers will begin to climb up the character’s leg taking over her body like nature is fighting back.  This results in her being transformed into a part of nature.