Sourced items for each character.

Today I began to take photographs of the objects I have chosen for each character I am trying to portray. The sourcing for each character has been quite simple to do because I have many of the things for each character, maybe because I'm still young and trying different types of fashions and styles, but there were a few things I needed to buy to make the images look finished.

(all these images and objects need to be edited)

These are my objects for the Silver Surfer:















These are my objects for The Blogger:














These are my objects for the Vintage Lover:


















These are my objects for the Indie Character:

















These are my objects for the Geek Chic character:










These are my objects for the Screenager character:

Images to create a focus

created by Creative Director, Rebecca Smith.

I like the idea of using paper to create an object, I have done this before in my work and feel I executed that idea well so this might work for this project. I could take images of objects that have associations with my characters and then with these images create the one object that best represents that character.

Gabi Trinkaus

I love this artist, or 'media thief' as she has called herself in the past.

Gabi, born in 1966 in Austria, takes collage to a whole new, and innovative level. She cuts and sticks from glossy magazines to create something else beautiful and amazing. With all the cut out pieces of these glossy magazines, Gabi creates collages of portraits and city landscapes.

When creating these new beauties of fashion, with regards to the portraits she creates, it's almost as if she is recreating someone who has artificially been beautifully formed.

I could consider this when I make my compositions for each character- make the face of the character.

Still life Photographer: Lacey

Composition/Presentation ideas???

Whilst researching collage artists, I came across two collages that I really like. I love the mix of drawn imagery, found imagery and text to create the whole image.



I think that this is a cool idea, quite simple but effective- as a follow up to this brief, the GILIL project could do something like this and dedicate these spaces where you can put imagery, in the library itself, from the general public, from the night of the gig.

I love the idea of using a frame too, almost like looking at the portrait of a character.

Thomas Brown: photographer

Still life photography:

Martin Vallin

Whilst researching ideas for compositions and ways to present my final images I came across a fab photographer, Martin Vallin. His work is amazing: on his website there's a link to his blog and his blog is just as fantastic if not better than his site because we get an insight into the mind of Martin, he talks us through, ideas, shoots etc.

When I saw this image my immediate attention was drawn to the mannequin head, I think it would be a fab idea to take photographs of my found objects and use the 2D photographs by covering a mannequin head with the images and adding actual accessories pieces on and around the mannequin head-such as a hat, spectacles etc.


This image really portrays the character element really well. By bringing in a variety of objects, you as the viewer build up your own character associations and are left to decide what story you want that character to have.


When I got my first publication for this project, I was looking into traditions, family life and the Granny Chic theme, when I came across these themes I came across a fab image of elderly ladies photographed (portraits) inside a frame and I loved this idea- bringing a frame into the image I think will fit the concept and will appeal to the characters I am focusing on. I will take images of the still life and place these inside the frame.


This image highlights the kind of products/objects I will take photos of and use for the project. As you can see the image isn't just completely based around fashion, the extra added objects evokes a certain character and this is what I am wanting to portray.


This is such a powerful image- although there is just one product in the shot the composition and the idea of collage really emphasises the image as a whole and creates a very powerful image.


I love this image and love the idea of bringing in text into the images by using the text page as a backdrop to the images- I could use the actual publication pages as the backdrop? This also caught my eye because the product itself links really well with this project- they say you can tell and understand a lot about a person just by simply looking at their shoes, so I could just focus my product/object images on shoes.

Robert Rauschenberg

Rauschenberg primarily worked within the boundaries of abstract expressionism, until he moved onto Pop art.

Rauschenberg's work explores the use of a variety of objects and materials to create his 'Combines' that he is well known for. He was both a painter and a sculptur and then he combined the two, to bring both art forms together to create something unique.

It's his use of layering imagery, whether that be with paint, objects, paper whatever- I just really love the idea of working onto imagery and having a piece that's always in the process of being finished.