Devising

This week we worked on an exercise using 5 pictures looking at how they can be used as stimulus to tell a story. I found this exercise showed me how much detail you can take from a picture, not only visualy but also theme and atmospheres. Some of the images we were giver were of places and others were of objects, for example a char or a clock. The objects were interesting as people viewed them in different ways, some saw the image of a clock and included it in their story as the actual clock, others saw it as a representation for time and used the image to suggest 'time passing'. I think this is interesting in looking at how two people can take two very different meanings from an image. Once again supporting the idea that 'audience create meaning'.

We also looked at devising groups to create an experimental piece. having done this previous exercise helped me when choosing an image to work from as i looked at images from two different perspectives.

Our stimulus :

We chose this sculpture as we wanted to explore the themes of greed and gluttony. The sculpture explores the idea ' In this country how many people have the utensils, but starve because there is no food?' We wanted to take this question and highlight the divide between people with and without food. Our idea for our piece is very simplistic in just having 3 people sat at a table surrounded with fast food, sweets, chocolate etc. to show the animalistic nature of humans and greed we want to have the 3 people stuffing their faces with all this food, almost forcing it down their throughts. We think showing people eating in such a disgusting way will represent the ugliness of greed. this piece is also easy to do for a long time and we wouldn't have to reset anything, instead just have enough food to continue. 

Research : 

25-34 year olds on adverage sre spending £2,626.92 a year on fast food. 

Mcdonalds meals sold each year in Uk : 1.05bn 

£1m is spent everyday on Dominos Take away

I think this images captures the main idea of our peice and shows our interpretation on the origional sculpture. The dependency we now have on these food chains, and the lack of understanding we hold to the ever growing food crisis in the rest of the world.