INDESIGN:

Learning the basics of indesign wasn't too hard, I am able to mak a book layout and drop images into it. This has also helped with submitting work as I am able to now create a multi-page pdf.
This is the layout of my book:

PROJECTION IMAGES EDIT:

BIBLE FINAL:

BIBLE:

In my book I will be putting my projection images in but also extracts from the bible to give the book context. I scanned in the pages of the bible and then places text over the top.
The phrases I chose to use were:
WE ARE THE CREATORS
BELIEVE EVERYTHING THEY TELL YOU
DIVINE OBJECTION
INFECT YOUR MIND
SAVE OUR RATIONALISM
KILL THE FIRST
These are phrases I personally came up with that I feel gets the reader to ask questions as opposed to telling them how to think. They can work both ways and you can apply them to religion and atheism.

WALL PIECE/POSTCARD/BOOK:

Unfortunately I won't have my book finished for the exhibition as it was brought forward. Which is disappointing because I feel that the images work as a collection rather than just one wall piece or postcard.
To make the postcards I will be putting low opacity text over some of my images asking questions about them, subtly. I will do the same for my wall piece except the text will be printed off on acetate and placed on top of the photograph.

PHOTO SHOOT:

When it came to taking the photos I used my pentax DSLR. I used no flash and no tripod, the no tripod was a mistake and bad planning on my part, because of this I am not as happy as I could be with the images. These are them pre edit:

GETTY IMAGES:

THE PLAGUE OF BOILS













THE PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS



















THE PLAGUE OF LIVESTOCK DEATH



















THE PLAGUE OF LICE














THE PLAGUE OF HAIL













THE PLAGUE OF FLIES















DEATH OF THE FIRSTBORN



















THE PLAGUE OF DARKNESS










THE PLAGUE OF BLOOD

VISUAL LANGUAGE FINAL IDEA:

After talking with Christian today about my idea I feel much more confident with it. I may be cutting my time very fine, but rather I do this than be working with an idea I am not excited or passionate about. I will need to use 'getty images' to find my photographs representing the 10 plagues as I am not really able to take a photo of a plagues of locusts or frogs etc, at least not in these time constraints. I will want to use a different person for each image to show diversity, however I don't know if I will be able to, with the time I have, find 10 separate men who will be willing to take off their tshirts. I will be taking the photos in the seminar room which is perfect because I can black out the room and there is a digital projector in there. I will be taking the photos on Friday.

TEN PLAGUES...PROJECTION?

After brainstorming the 10 plagues idea I wanted to do something around the 10 plagues in the modern day society and what they represent. Maybe dabble with questioning the existence of God. I want to do studio photos as much of my work had been documentarian. I also like the idea of using projection. If I was able to get photographs representing the 10 plagues and then project them onto something. Maybe people, representing the modern day view of biblical stories and how personal it is to people.

Images, each representing a different plague.
Projected onto the naked torsos of men,
naked because of the vunrability of humans,
torso because it holds your heart, a stronger believer in religion than your head I feel,
and men because of the continuous patriarchal themes throughout the bible.

THE REAPING:

I watched the film The Reaping over Christmas and this was one of the extra features. The 10 Plagues is something I'm very interested in and the fact that science can now theoretically explain it is even more interesting. I am agnostic myself and I feel that peoples firm belief in God still in this day an age despite there is no solid proof, yet God was able to smite all the unbelievers and 10 commandment breakers then, why doesn't he do it now?
I feel that I am able to work a lot with the collection of the 10 plagues themselves but the collection of believers and unbelievers is a subject to really think about.

CREATIVE BLOCK:

I can't seem to bring myself to come up with any ideas around Bethlem and the initial ideas just don't seem attractive anymore.
What to do.
What to do.
What to do.
What to do.What to do.
What to do.
What to do.
What too do.
What to do..
What to do.

VISIT TO BETHLEM MUSEUM:

Visiting the museum and art gallery at Bethlem Hospital was an interesting experience and I took much inspiration from it. I wasn't what I expected, it looked like a normal museum, but I don't really know what I was expecting.
I was able to see restraint chains used in the 1860's in the museum.
Artifacts and photographs of the hospital throughout the ages.
This was one of my favorite photographs:










At the time I went they were exhibiting the work of Richard Dadd (1817-1886) a selection of pieces representing his 22 years in Broadmoor State Criminal Lunatic Asylum where he died. much of it was fine art based and all was painting or drawing, not my preferred media but I liked how he obviously very talented with a brush which makes a difference from most outsider art. this was one of my favorite pieces:

BOOKBINDING:

(Made that on illustrator when I was bored!)

This was my first time bookbinding unlike the rest of viscom because I hadn't done it in my first year. I learnt a lot, two different types of bookbinding and made these (plus two more using the same two binding techniques):

BETHLEM IDEAS:

Photography.
Someone in a psychiatric hospital or a recreation of one.
In illustrator chains drawn onto the photograph as if the subject is fictitiously tied up.
Representing the change from old to pres

NEW IDEA:

This is Bethlem Hospital, a psychiatric hospital situated close to where I lived in London. There is much history to this hospital, which first opened in 1337. Patients were chained to the floor back then for their safety and was named Bedlam. The noise was "so hideous, so great; that they are more able to drive a man that hath his wits rather out of them." I found it interesting the way that mentally ill patient were treated back then, they were called lunatics until the 1700's, in the 18th century people used to go to Bedlam to stare at the 'lunatics'. Visitors were permitted to bring long sticks with which to poke and enrage the inmates. In 1814 alone, there were 96,000 of these visits. The way that a collection of people are stereotyped and placed in a hospital chained up and forgotten about.

POP-UP MUSEUM:

I went with others from viscom to the new pop-up museum in the Merrion center. This was a really cool experience, the whole museum was a bit make-shift which was brilliant as you don't see things like that every day. A couple of viscommers helped out with decor which looked wicked. And I learnt about fossils.
This was interesting to see how different collections can be presented and that collections are in everything, the museum was small collections within bigger collections all collected in a shop in a collection of shops.

PROTEST DEVELOPMENT:

After having a discussion with Nick and Christian on my protest idea they thought it would be a good idea to look at the people behind the protests, in their own habitats. Taking photos of protests is a bit of a pain as they're not constantly going on and therefore I'm not constantly taking photos. However I don't feel the other idea grabs me enough to do a whole project on it.
Therefore...back to square one....