Brian and Perseverance

The Grass is Greener

I began by making my own story. I began by creating a character and putting them in a setting; I made a character named Brian who lived under the sofa. Brian is depressed because he is lonely and a big heart to share. Unfortunately due to his big heart and height, he is unable to climb the stairs to reach the Teddy Utopia with all the other bears. Therefore he decides to do something about it and go to engineering school, here he learns how to build an aeroplane. He goes about building the aeroplane with everything he had tried so hard to learn, he then flies the plane to the top floor to Teddy Utopia where he is not alone and makes many friends. The moral of the story was; if at first you don't succeed, try and try again. This moral shows people that in order to be happy, you must work for it and in this story, Brian worked at being able to reach his goal and eventually made it. I think I could've improved this story by adding more drama, for example, he could've almost crashed the plane, this would make it seem more like an achievement once he got to his destination eventually, it also would've added suspense and made the viewer feel more emotional. The theme to this story is perseverance, and our next task was the create a photo of something illusionistic and that also conveyed the theme.

Perseverance

I decided to chose the flight part of the story because I thought it was the most dramatic part and the aeroplane was the reason for Brian achieving his goal, so it is representational for succeeding. I made a paper aeroplane and then photographed it by the window so that it would have a strong sense of light and shade. I photographed it from every angle and put each photo in black and white, one of the images is shown here. Once I had done this, I printed off each of the pictures and stuck them onto a large strip of cardboard, adding 3 dimensional parts to counterbalance the 2 dimensional photographs. I made the cardboard into a set, with one section slightly open so I could get a photo of the inside. 

Below are some images of the set I made from the photos. I then put a lit on the top and photographed the inside, edited the photos so they are fully black and white and I increased the contrast for a more dramatic effect. 

The illusion here is there it is difficult to distinguish which areas are 3D and which areas are 2D. Here are the three final photos of the set. I thought these pictures are successful because they are purely abstract and it was interesting to see what could become of a simple paper aeroplane. It is also not obvious that the pictures represent the theme perseverance. They also represent repetitiveness to show the theory of if at first you don't succeed, you try and try again.