04/10/2016
The one day exercise for Pitch and Planning was to get into
groups where each of us will present our project, while another member was to
create a visual mind map of the ideas from the presenter. This was to enable us
to get a good grip in explaining and presenting our own ideas of our FMP as
clearly as possible (in terms of communication), which will lead to discussions
between members for possible ideas that could pave their projects into a better
or expansive direction. In a way this will help boost our confidence as well as
getting feedback from other members from the group who will be acting as
“audiences”.
I paired up with Chris for this exercise and I went first
between us to present my project idea to my group as Chris visually maps out my
ideas. During my pitch the other members asked me questions that helps define
my project, which in turn involved critical thinking about the potential
possibilities regarding on the final outcome of the project. This was greatly
discussed between members and it had benefited all of us to consider the
different factors that could play for our project, such as looking into
different resources to help define certain areas, e.g. artist books for visual
imagery.
Chris’s visual mind map of my ideas does show some
connection to what I had spoken at my pitch, with multiple illustrations of
planets, which represents the “world” I am creating, books representing the
“stories” I will give my characters, as well as a drawing of a dragon and
random characters which relates to the theme of fantasy/enchantment, while
linking them all of them together to show that these factors (characters,
stories and genre) are the primary focus of my FMP, accompanied with visual
imagery of the tools I will be using (the computer and CMYK representing the
tools I will use to produce my work) and Easter eggs (recurring or familiar
objects) that I will place throughout my artworks. Chris has a good
understanding with what my project is about and his illustrations had
pinpointed some of the key things I will focus on.
My visual mind map of Chris’s ideas was slightly difficult
to illustrate because his theme about mythology and short stories is a bit
broad and not specific. The first thing had I illustrated was the common themes
or characters, such as Shakespeare to represent the literature of poems,
including gods and beasts of mythology which consists of drawings of a Minotaur
and other gods related to different religions. After a while as I was
illustrating it was becoming a bit clearer to me with what to draw in relation
to Chris’s work and so I illustrated other things such as books, objects, life
and death, language and book making process to reveal Chris’s intentions in producing
his outcome. Most of the illustrations are just simple doodles of the key
things he discussed (keeping things simple can visually communicate things
better).
The exercise has helped me and others to communicate better
about our FMP and to define certain aspects of our project that we once unsure
of, i.e. things that we were unaware of that could potentially help or
researching into areas that are outside of our initial FMP plan that could
benefit the project. Considering the task was informal, there has been good
interaction between members in terms of discussion, where we would help each
other’s strengths and improve their weaknesses. Things have become a lot
clearer to me in how to communicate about my FMP as I now have a clear grasp of
what I wanted to do. Beforehand I have ideas, but they were not grounded and I wasn’t
really certain with the direction I want to go with the themes and subject
matters I have in mind. After taking part in this exercise I feel a lot more
comfortable with my ideas from the interaction and discussions I had with other
members. Their insights were valuable to me and I will keep them in mind when I
begin my FMP.
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