Project Proposal

Candidate Name- Hayley Darbyshire

Pathway- Fine Art

Project Title- 'Untitled' (as of now)

Since repeating my foundation year I have gained a wider aspect and knowledge of what ‘ Fine Art’ can intale. As my previous foundation year consisted of simply just drawing, this year I wanted to challenge myself and widen my horizons to see what I was capable of.  I started the year with a time controlled project ‘ 74 Days of Me’, although it was somewhat different I realised creating work simply just about myself was not something I am interested in. From this I decided to challenge myself not only with the subjects and issues I was looking at within my work but also how my pieces were communicated and exhibited. I created 3D works, took part in a taxidermy class, and created large scale paintings including text. Towards the beginning of the year after watching numerous short british films and watching films weekly at college I realised  film making was something I wanted to try myself and research into.

For my FMP I have decided to make a short film looking into males and females and the way they act with and towards each other. I want my film to represent both genders in an animalistic, and somewhat stereotypical way. My film will exaggerate the primitive characteristics of both male and females and will probably seem somewhat biased since, being a girl myself, I will have my own views from past encounters with the opposite gender, but also the experience from having a girls point of view.

Similar to my previous work from this year, I want the setting of my film (or the way it is going to be shot) to represent a box like atmosphere, suggesting and exaggerating the fact that the actors in it have been placed in a derelict space and I am the one controlling their surroundings, but not their actions. I want my film, similar to Christopher Nolan’s, ‘Doodlebug’, to have a repetitive theme, representing a cycle of gender issue with no escape.

I am currently blogging my work and research to keep track of my progress and experimentation within my FMP. I am, and will, continue to have crits and tutorials with tutors for critical feedback to help my work progress ready for the final exhibition.