FMP

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FMP

My final outcome is a book and a series of poster attached to a light box. The book has the total of 8 pages which portray the 7 milestones I selected through a series of different obstacles the LGBT community had to faces starting from Stonewall Riots. I have done a stencil like images that are printed on to acetate the 7 stencils includes the Sochi Olympics, Prop 8 vs NoH8, Ellen DeGeners, Don't Ask Don't Tell, AIDS, Havery Milk. For the last pages it consist of a graffiti images of the stonewall inn. As for my poster the 8 pages was put together to form a light box installation and at the last pages also a graffiti of stonewall but this time it is an actual stonewall.

The outcome of my FMP was suppose to be a hanging installation however because I could not get the effect that I wanted and the materials that I used did not actually support the installation I then have to come up with a solution to create my display. I seek the help of my tutor Andrew McCarten, he gave me helpful advices and we came up to the conclusion that in order to show the display I will have to attach the poster into a light box. I am not really happy on the way I had to do it but I had to compromise at the last minute and it was the only way possible to achieve the effect that I need for the FMP. Therefore I have to sacrifice some of the effect I could have display if it was hanging but It was down to my planning. All in all I am glad that I have installed my display before the deadline and everything is on set for the show.

The second outcome of my FMP I am really happy with because it was done perfectly if not better. The pages was associated to the poster on it side and the only compromise I have to do was the cover which was pretty well executed given that It was also done last minute. I am just a little worried because the book is pretty delicate and if not handle properly it could be destroyed. I am hoping that it would still be intact for longer than I expect it will.

Creating this project was really fun. I am glad that I picked Gay Rights as a subject because it allowed me to seek answers that I would have never search for. I feel like a change man after the research that I have been through and It help me to gain a stronger attachment to the LGBT rights movement emotionally. To be honest most of my ideas came up to me watching the films that are connected to my research. It also kept me from thinking outside the box and go around it because this project made me pursue to not use stereotypical thinking in designing. I have learn a great deal of different methods and approaches on designing through this project and I also think I have found my style in terms of what art I want to produce and what portrayal should be in them. I was emotionally and mentally challenge going through this project not only because it was the hardest thing I have done so far coming from a different educational background as an artist but also because the topic has become more and more deep as I uncover more and more information about the things the LGBT community suffered around the world.

I feel like my visits the exhibition has help me lot no on my research but to generate ideas of how to communicate on my audience and achieve what in my own opinion are good and bad. I also have fun combining the old art into modern art and I found out that there is not that much difference it's just a new way of practice. I regret that I haven't done much of sketching work on this project as I have done in other project and I have no idea why but I gathered my idea into watching and observing a I don't feel the like of putting it down as a drawing because the information that I receive was always a rush I just need to keep going and experiment in real life. If i have to do this project again I might use more sketchbook work than digital work however I could argue that I am continuing my student life in Ravensbourne next year and I am going to do a Motion Graphics course and I want to practice as much as possible my digital skills if I want to be one of the best in that field.
  

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 This is the finish product in progress. 7 pages of acetate glued into 7 pages of card. I have taken a picture of what I would look like if the lights shines through it to show the effect of what I want to show on the installation.

I have also produced the graffiti of stonewall that will be place at the very last page so that the shadow might cover some of the stonewall but hopefully can still be readable. The pages will spell out gay pride.






I also have here is the finish pages of the book. It doesn't have the cover yet but it will be in white. 7 pages that convey the milestones of LGBT community leading to the end which was believed that started everything The Stonewall

It will contain the famous iconic building and sign of the stone wall in and the message written on the board outside the premises

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I have change my mind about the poster which now will have a graffiti of stonewall at the back much like the book. The colour will also be change on format and it will be vertical with letters in the middle that spells out GAY PRIDE. The change is necessary to support the book. It also make more sense and appreciation to the LGBT community. It will be an installation that hangs from the ceiling with 8 section apart

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I have decided that the size of the book will be more or less A5 size and in landscape therefore I designed a format for the book. This image will include the stencil from the timeline therefore the book will have total of 8 pages. 7 pages for the timelines that represent the rainbow colour and 1 page at the very back that represent the start of this movement the Stonewall Riot which is going to be produce as a real graffiti stencil. It will be printed on acetate and each pages will contain one colour in order. It will also include the dates and title.

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I have also decided to make a book that will have a timeline of the milestones that LGBT when through since the movement began from Stonewall Riots. I wanted them to be in stencils to generate the graffiti look. After carefully looking through the timeline I came up with seven not including stonewall to represent each coulour of the rainbow.

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I decided to make a graffiti style poster but it will have the rainbow colour on it scattered in an abstract form. I wan't the piece to have a little significant to the statues therefore I selected one that have a hidden message on it and i have chosen the statue called "The Thinker", I though it would give the message to the viewers to think before they judge people. This is how it panned out the poster would be in black and white but the rainbow would be in front of it with colours. However it doesn't really show the statue therefore I created a second poster.

The second poster showed more imagery and allowed the viewers to see the statue underneath. I am considering using acetate on the coloured are so that It would be more see through and would portray that to fully know someone you have to see through them.

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Following up the the Stonewall Riots I found out through my reseach that there is a documentary film produced to show what happened during the riot. This film includes the statement of some of the people that witness the riot itself.

I watched the movie to help me refresh my ideas and found it really informative on how the treatment on gay community has change since the start of this riots. It was emotional and heart pounding documentary because they have shown what happened during the three days of the riots.

The film did the riots justice. It also gave a non-biased information because it both had shown some police officers sharing statements.

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What happened this day is a funny serendipity. I was walking at the park in my town and I happened to see this, someone had put a traffic cone on a statue which was interesting to me when I saw it so i took a picture. I then talked to a tutor about this idea and she happened to know that this was done by a movement in the United Kingdom.. So I look for some other examples.



I did find a lot more of something like this and it became so big some people are dong it internationally. I then suggested to her that I can possibly put something that represent LGBT into a statue and see what the outcome would look like.

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Last month Ravensbourne celebrated LGBT History month and a lot of people where informed about what the gay community represent and what they been through to fight for gay rights.

A lot if banners and posters was created and posted around the whole building to inform all the students about LGBT. They used famous celebrities that are gay to show that being gay is being proud, talented and respectful.


 Putting celebrities was effective therefore I am also going to research about the famous and significant people that have done to promote LGBT.

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The last Museum that I visited was London Museum and there was an exhibition across the entrance that has this picture. It was photograph by Frank Dywer. It was an installation of hanging umbrellas in different colour which gave me an idea to hang my FMP.

Seeing this gave me a pretty good idea of what can my FMP look like because the umbrellas has the rainbow colour

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The visit to Design Museum gave an idea to create some ideas for my FMP. The shop was selling this post cards with patterns of different fabric that could go in front of any patterns.

This is a great idea for my development. When I first saw it I was just fascinated about the idea but now that I have seen some pictures of this I think I can actually use this to use for my idea development. The technique is helpful and I might use this all the time

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During the 3rd week we visited Design Museum and the best part is the Paul Smith exhibition.

Sir Paul Smith is an English fashion designer, whose business and reputation is founded upon his menswear. He is both commercially successful and highly respected within the fashion industry.


The screens installation shows how Paul Smith think. It was a really good installation and representation of what goes into your head. It was in a room with installation on sides and on the roof so every single corner shows the installation. 






One of my favourite is the recreation of his studio. It has so many stuff that inspired him even inspired me but the best thing is the spaghetti shirt which caught my attention. This has help me to be more observant about my surrounding and use simple things and turn it to a magnificent design. 

This is also a great thing leaving 
a note which really inspired me
and I hope inspired a lot of 
people that came into the 
exhibition.  

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Another great video was from Macklemore as he put out a really emotional song about being gay called "Same Love". The song became a hit and has been heard by a lot from LGBT community. The song describes his experiences about the people in his life who are gay and his own experiences about it. The song sets another great example of someone supporting LGBT and and he tackle the issue in a really inspiring way

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This is a video that came out during my research. It really helped me understand more about the feelings of being afraid to come out gay especially hearing it from a well known actress as Ellen Paige. Seeing this video has made me be more cautious on how to tackle my FMP and to try not to offend any one. It was a really great stand on supporting the LGBT community and really inspiring speech.

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Recently I have been to a celebration smaller than Pride Parade but have the same goal. This celebration however is not about the LGBT community but for thanking everyone who has donated and give support to the people back to the Philippines as they have hit by a massive typhoon "Yolanda" also known internationally as Typhhon Haiyan.

The Filipino community organised a thanks giving rally for the citizen of United Kingdom that donate money,food,clothes and time to help out.

This to me is have some similarity to Pride Parade because people have gathered to show the support and give notice to the things that affects them.

The rally has taken place in Trafalgar Square in the middle of the day.

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The Pride Parade is a annual celebration of the LGBT community around June and July to commemorate Stonewall riot which is considered the catalyst of how the parade started.

The parade is known for the rainbow flag that they represent and almost everyone wear or associate there floats and costume to it.  

More and more major cities joins to celebrate Pride Parade around the world and get huge support from communities aside from LGBT.

FMP

During the second week of FMP the tutors have decided to do a week project called "Creative Week" which will mix the graphics and lens base groups and create something that could help us on our FMP.

I joined a group with 2 graphic design students including me and 2 lens base media students. All of us decided that our topics relates to each other. The main focus of the project is identity and how people judges you before even knowing who you are. Our idea is to use a projector and put it on a blank mannequin head. 

The idea is to project a part of a head like the eyes or mouth to show that you cannot really judge people on a single glance and especially just in a part of there body. This pictures shows how it will be projected. We then decided that the eye is the best way to project on the face because it portrays more emotion. we decided to gather different clips of eyes from different gender and ethnicity to show equality. 

Here is a link to the video we projected on the head.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbxSesPW9oA

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One of the big Hollywood pictures this year is Dallas Buyers Club. This story is based on real life and it deals with homosexuality and aids. I have watch this film and I really like what it stands for and this has one of the best moral in a movie I have ever seen. The story revolves around a guy that catch the wide spreading disease that is known to caused by homosexuality. Ron Woodroof a homophobic mechanic found a best friend from a gay guy and help him to get cure. This film is so brilliant that I would recommend everyone to see it. It is significant to my reseach as well but I have seen this before starting my FMP and I think this film have a big impact on me deciding what topic I should chose.

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Now that I am doing research on graffiti , one of my friend mentioned a film/documentary about bansky and other graffiti artist. The film is named "exit through the gift shop" it was a documentary produced by bansky and tells us how the graffiti scene started and how to think outside the box. The documentary also presents other famous graffiti artist like ''Obey'' creator Shepard Fairey, Space Invader and Mr. Brainwash which is the main focus of the documentary.

I really like the movie because it shows how the movement of bansky and other graffiti started, but the main focus was Mr.Brainwas. Watching this documentary made me feel that I am experiencing a real danger of putting up a graffiti by myself. Through-out the film bansky kept his anonymity. Over all through this documentary it showed me a range of graffiti and various techniques that it offers.  

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Now that I have establish what I want to research on, I decided to wonder around the street of Shoreditch and Bricklane because it's one of the most popular graffti spots in London. I think seeing all the art in person and following movement will give me some ideas of how the true graffiti art conveys. It will also give me the support on how to understand the meaning of these propaganda so that I can have my own interpretation of the art.

I saw this graffiti when as soon as I left the train station. This one doesn't really necessarily meet my expectation of my interpretation of a graffiti is, for me this one is more like a doodle in a sketch book, something that someone would do if they are bored or it could possibly be a practice piece. In conclusion I don't like this kind of graffiti art because I see graffiti as a way of showing art for something more important like a political or social improvement. This is a common example why society look upon graffiti as bad or illegal however this is only my opinion this could easily mean something amazing to others.

Same as the graffiti at above I don't also really understand this one however it could be a part of something that was no longer there or a piece of a much larger graffiti art. With that said I really like this piece because of the technique tat was used. This was a paper sticker which is considered as a kind of stencil graffiti. There is a larger difference between this and the first picture because that was done be paint this particular piece acts like a sticker therefore is not much hassle taking this off the wall however it is also doesn't stay that long overtime 

As you could see this is an example of a street where graffiti is done as a continuously piece. however this is not only images but words are used too. This particular piece looks like a opinion board where people can put what they feel. The stenciled images works really well suggesting the images that was conveyed at the same time it is not subjective to anyone having the whole thing in black without details. The use of words compensate for the lack of images. Using bright colours almost neon sometimes really works especially in this street because it doesn't have any street lights therefore at night the graffiti can still be seen. This is a really good graffiti in the case of sending message or capturing the public's eye and emotion. 

The graffiti that you are seeing is a unique piece because it became famous after a piece of canvas that the artist did was given to President Obama. The technique is very unique and it suggest to me that the artist has found his/her style, in this particular situation the artist own style. In my opinion given the size ad how it is presented there is not one by passer that would not see it and if it was conveying a good message it could make an impact to the person reading the art. 

This one I also like because the repetition technique was used. The piece is just a normal poster type of art however through repetition it does make an impact to me. It is almost like the artist is telling me that this something important, to put three pieces instead of one is not normal which makes it more serious and a matter not to just walk pas by. 

Another graffiti art that has more emotional message onto it because it says "R.I.P Grandma" at the bottom which suggest that this art is done for dedication to the artist's relative. The graffiti is used for a different reason this time. When I saw it the I felt the emotion of the artist and I can see a picture of how he feels when he/she was doing this graffiti. The imagery also help because it has wings which suggests of heaven or past life. 

Graffiti has a lot of connection of how you feel at that time while your creating the art and that was the best about it because if you have a lot of valuable opinion to share with the people why not share it and to show it visually would make it more visible and understanding for them.

Also located at Shoredictch was a Design Company called Kemistry which I really like. The company owner did a lecture in Ravensbourne a couple months ago and I really like what the company are doing and what they stand for. The owner seems to have a lot of experience and some of the art that they have in the shop are really great and interesting in the graphic design scene.

The poster that you can see was purchased from Kemistry. I liked it because I thought it represents the LGBT society a little bit because of the colour scheme I might be wrong of suggesting that the poster was made for that but that was I was thinking when I bought it. 

FMP

The first stop for my research is Tate Modern. As I remember when I first went to the exhibition there was a room that exhibits Russian Revolutionary posters. I want to visit this exhibition because I want to understand what method and techniques the artist use to their propaganda across to the people and cause a movement.

The topic that I selected is Gay Rights because I feel like this issue has been around for a very long time and the movement still needs support from people. I want to give my support by dedicating my FMP to the LGBT community and send something that I really believe and maybe give people some ideas that could possible change or support how they think about the gay community.



Here are some example of Russian Revolutionary posters that had been collected from the 1917 revolution.

                         

                            The third wife of mullah 

Executioners torturing
Ukraine. Death to executioner

     

Reality of our produciton
plan is million of hardworking
people who are creating life

                         

                                 An Ordinary Story

 

Fascism is the biggest
women's enemy
Let's get rid of it

                                  

Red Moscow is the art
othe world's revolution

After visiting the visit for Russian Revolutionary poster on my way out I saw a large whole way with a huge crowd gathered near it near the cafeteria. I went near to see what was going on and I saw numbers of little screen with some kind of pens attached on it's sides, then it hit me that the huge wall above the it has a projection of drawings done from the screens below. It's interesting to me because the crowd consisted of all people from different age group, ethnicity and gender which strikes me because this is the what kind of effect I want to get from my final major product.