ICT Progress...

Part of my project will focus on lyrics and the effect they have on people. Some of my all time favourite lyrics are sung by the band 'The Script' who are an Irish soft rock band from Dublin. The group consists of Mark Sheehan, Glen Power and frontman Danny O' Donoghue. The main theme of their songs are love and break up, which seem to top the charts more than anything else as people can relate to them. I am very much a lyrics sort of person than I am one for the beat. A three minute song that writes exactly how you are feeling or have felt in the past makes you feel like you are not the only person in the world that has ever felt that way.

A Sense of Place...

Choosing a topic to work on with the theme ‘sense of place’ highlighted throughout seemed difficult initially. I wanted to choose something that I feel passionate about and would therefore enjoy working on. I decided almost automatically to explore the topic of ‘Music’ and write about that as my subject of interest. I would explore the reasons as to why, when listening, it makes me feel as if I am in my own little bubble and can escape from everyday life. I will also discuss the effect it has on others and how it makes them feel. As well as this, I will research ‘music therapy’ and how this is used medically. The project also has to contain an artist that has influenced our choice in topic. I will write about mine in my sketch book and give reasons as to why I favour them over any other artist.

ICT Project Idea...

Stressed!!!

I didn't realise how detailed the making of my toy would be and am cursing myself for trying to make the most difficult in all creation! However, if it comes out as expected, it should be bloomin' marvellous! Hopefully. I never really get the chance to get all artsy and creative so this has been a pretty fun project to do. If all goes to plan, never again will I buy presents for people...I'll just pop down to the nearest Hobby Craft and HEY PRESTO!

Toy Ideas...

I created a mind map to outweigh the positives and negatives of each toy before choosing which one to make. The three toy ideas would all be for 3-4 year olds.

Metaphores...

In our art class we spoke about metaphores and hidden meanings in songs. Pathetic fallacy is commonly used in songs today and we spent some time naming as many as we could think of that had metaphores in, to ensure we each knew what was meant by the term. Once we were sure we knew what it meant, Suzie gave each group a pack of images that were visual metaphores. We were asked to separate them into categories of our choice.

My group separated the images into categories of health, religion, music, drugs and cruelty. Certain pictures were quite disturbing to look at, especially for the faint-hearted. Most of the pictures did portray a good message though and I can see why they would be effective. My favourite was a picture of three hearts, each with a colour written inside. Yellow, black and white. This message seems to show that regardless of skin colour, everyone is the same. However, metaphores can mean different things to different people.  

A Sense of Place...

In our visual communication lesson we were told that our assignment had to include the theme of 'sense of place'. In order to brainstorm through ideas, Suzie asked us to work in groups in order to create a collage of everything that makes us feel like we have a sense of place and things that make us comfortable and happy. I worked with four of the girls on this and we managed to cover the entire sheet of paper. You could tell by looking at some of the other pieces of work that ours was a very girly view of what it means to be happy.

We had different sections on the paper relating to different topics. We had family, marriage, where we live, home, food, fashion, hobbies. We were able to find a lot of useful images and text in the magazines Suzie gave us and therefore were able to make a collage that meant a lot to us. We started by looking at images that represented our homes, such as our bedrooms, settee and the dining table and continued to expand through where we had been brought up, lived now and went to school. Sport can give people a big sense of belonging too and so we included all forms of sport we take part in.