Sketchbook pages

Here are some pages to show my progress :)

Who, What, Where Concept

For this project I'm keeping it personal (which seems to be a formula that kinda works for me) so I've been looking at the influencing men of my life: my Grandad, Dad and brother. At first I was looking at creating 3 chairs that represent them, as within our house they have all had/have chairs that were theirs, a static place that they always seemed to be. Where- as I'm more restless and don't have one spot in the house. However from working on it and researching I've decided that I'm making my own chair. Taking my place, although not just in the house, the chair for me can fold away, portable, implying that I cam be restless, move or even leave.
However I'm going to have 3 portraits of them hanging above the chair (when it is set up as an installation) that will have red string tying them to the chairs, to symbolise family ties, that family shouldn't hold you back.

Protest Concept

Protest I've been looking at the debate for the "Designer Baby": where is it OK to experiment on fetus' and if it is morally right to create a baby whose genes have been thought out, planned and chosen by someone else. From looking at all the research I can't really decide on what I believe, there are arguments for both sides so I'm not going to create a piece that argues for or against just something that makes people think about the topic and hopefully starts a discussion.
I want to create something that in a sense is like "build a baby" with different limbs, eye colour, skin colour options (this sounds more morbid that I want it to), and have it displayed in a way that the audience can literally build their own 'perfect' baby.

Protest Progress

I've made a fair bit of progress with my Protest work that only thing is that I can't decide how I want to make the final piece, whether to leave it solely paper based or laminate the separate pieces so that they are more stable. The brief did say that the piece had to be paper based so I'm not sure if I'll get away with laminating them.

To Vlog or not to Vlog

Originally I was going to vlog most of my progress through out this project as I enjoyed the video classes that we had last term. However it's something that keeps slipping my mind and I tend to only film after an event rather than during so I think I'm just going to make an accumulative video towards the end to sum up what I've done and how I did it. I might have a separate one for my final piece and concept so that it doesn't end up too long. 
I do like documenting my work in this way I think it's an effective way of getting my point across but I do feel kinda awkward when I'm filming, especially when it's in front of different people. So, I think I'm going to continue with it as it will help to build up my confidence and maybe I'll actually be able to create videos as a part of my work or even a final piece once I have more confidence and I've built up my skills.

Prezi

For PDP we've been looking into different ways of presenting our work and alternative ideas for the statement for assessment. Prezi was one of them: it's an interactive presentation that moves and jumps, you can easily add images, videos and text. I like the way that it works and think it would be a good replacement for the written statement for assessment as it's more visual and would hold someone attention. Something that I think it would be good for would be as an explanation at an exhibition rather than a blurb. It's interesting and dynamic but it could disteract from the actual piece it's self so it would need to be balanced with the piece as not to over power it.
In any case here is the link to mine (back on the multiples brief):
Prezi - Multiples