Friday, 28 January 2011

Creating a Clay Mask



This week at college the creative and media students were given the opportunity to go see the swift performing art students perform their monologues and be assessed.


Siobhan plucked up the courage to go first, her performance was based on domestic violence, she delivered it confidently and from what i know, she made no mistakes.


Second up was Grace, her performance was based on her running away from home, she also delivered her performance confidently and made no obvious mistakes.


Thirdly to take the stand was Charlie, her performance was very well thought up, she did her monologue all about how scared she gets when she goes to the dentist, her performance was confident and emotional.


Fourth up was Owen, his performance was all about his wife leaving him at the alter, he delivered his performance confidently but could have showed more emotion.

Friday, 3 December 2010

Mask Evaluation

Why did you choose your design?
How did you find the process?
Is your final mask the same as your first design? 
If not, why?
What are the strengths and weaknesses? 
What would you change?
Did you enjoy making it?


My design was originally going to be a donkey, i chose this because i was inspired by the character bottom in midsummers night dream...
After creating the basis of the mask, i discovered the difficultly in making the donkeys nose, so i changed my idea to then be a cat.
I found the process fairly simple, making the cats big cheeks had to be the hardest part, but other than that it was easy :)
In my opinion the best part of my design is the colours used, they are different to a normal cat, a normal cat varies in colour, but from what i know, there are hardly any navy blue cats, however the weaknesses in my design had to be the masks shape, it was very similar to a human head, and not a cats.  Taking that into consideration, if i was to make the same mask again i would make the cats head shape more like a cat.
I loved making the mask because i feel i am a very creative person and i was very  happy when we found out we were making masks, my favourite part was the satisfaction of completion.