The Research Proposal -Deadline 22nd February.
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Project proposal for the next module for the master thesis.
500 words.
Challenges and achievements and identifies an area of research.
Something you’ve never tried before. Make it personal to you as an artist.
A problem you want to resolve in your own work.
A working title
(Describe the area of research)
A reflection
Analyse the work as opposed to just describing. Include age group.
Proposed area of research.
Must relate to illustrated books for children
Must relate to practice. Could be speculative. Could be about past work too (on this course or before)
1. Historical context (books that relate to your subject in the past)
2. Contemporary (How your subject relates to your
3. Acedemic theories.
Indictive bibliography
-Proposed reading list.
How does this essay feed in to the work we do later in the year.
Initial brainstorm
Something borrowed -Narrative painting.
Something old -Immersive storytelling in picture books and it’s relationship to theatre.
Looking back at my previous practice of working in immersive theatre.
Something new -
Something undiscovered - Methods of depicting poetry in picturebooks.
Ways of seeing - Looking at the differing relationship between words and images. Methods of showing how we can learn from the graphic design world to inform how we show words and image in the best possible way to convey meaning in picture books.
Case studies: Alan Flecture
An examination of method - The joys and tribulations of drawing. How to maintain control when working as a sequential artist. Examination of how other practioners tackle the act of drawing and how this
World building in Picture books.
Processes of drawing for visual communication in creating Children’s picture books.
Techniques of wordless Children’s books.
The everyday and the imaginary in Children’s books.
Telling children’s stories without words. Relationship with previous work with Punchdrunk.
Things that I want to improve on.
Drawing for communication
Perspective.
Printmaking techniques.
Confidence with colour
Character work.
Methods of going from initial drawings to final pieces. Methods of moving through a drawing in layers.
Relation of text with image.
Interests
Ted Hughes - Poetry
Ted Hughes - Creation stories.
World building. Punchdrunk work. How can I translate these skills into a 2D space.
World building. Creating place
10th Febraury - Expanded topics
- THIS TOPIC THAT HAS A RELATIONSHIP TO MY PRESENT WORK. A comparative analysis of narrative painting and its relationship to the creation of picture books. The research will focus on the work of Paula Rego, Lucian Freud, Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Rembrandt. The paintings will be analysed and compared in relation to picture book makers. Possible case studies may include the work of Kitty Crowther, Beatrice Alemagna and Armin Greder (I’m not sure on the picture book makers I would like to focus on yet). This is a topic which has a relationship to both my sequential image module and the paradox module.
Points of analysis - Ways of framing the drama of a scene. Methods of creating focus. Layering a picture with meanings that hint at past of future narrative. Looking at the triptych technique and its relationship to sequential art.
2. THIS TOPIC RELATES TO MY PREVIOUS PRACTICE. Immersive storytelling in picture books and it’s relationship to theatre. This topic looks at how stories are told performatively in picture books and in immersive theatre. The project seeks to reveal how the differing practices can inform each other. This piece of research will look at my past practice of working in immersive theatre and investigate methods of dramaturgy and how it can relate to directing narrative in a picture book.
Case Studies -
Theatre companies - Punchdrunk and Shunt.
Picture book makers.The Arrival. The Journey.
Points of interest
- How the five senses are tantalised in immersive theatre and in picturebooks.
- The audience or reader acting as a camera lens.
- World building and authenticity of place. How to gain trust in your reader/audience to take you inside the world created.
- Memories of performance and picture books.
3. THIS TOPIC RELATES TO A PERSONAL ISSUE WITH MY OWN PRACTICE
Ways of seeing - Looking at the differing relationship between words and images. How we can learn from the graphic design world to inform how we show words and image in the best possible way to convey meaning in picture books.
Looking at ways of visually communicating.
Case studies - Graphic design world: Alan Fletcher, Derek Birdsall.
John Berger? Molly Bang.
4. THIS TOPIC WOULD PROBABLY BE A LOT OF FUN TO RESEARCH! ALSO A PERSONAL ISSUE
Thinking through drawing’An examination of method - The joys and tribulations of drawing. How to maintain control when working as a sequential artist.
An examination of how other practitioners tackle the act of drawing and how this influences their work as picture book makers.
Possible case studies - Quentin Blake, John Burningham, Raymond Briggs. Posy Simmonds.
Artworld - Maggie Hambling.
5. A COMPLETELY NEW TOPIC. Methods of depicting poetry in picturebooks. Possibly looking at Ted Hughes as a focus.
Immersive storytelling in picture books and it’s relationship to theatre.
This topic looks at how stories are told performatively in picture books and in immersive theatre.
The project seeks to reveal how the differing practices can inform each other.
This piece of research will look at my past practice of working in immersive theatre and investigate methods of dramaturgy and how it can relate to directing narrative in a picture book.
Case Studies - Theatre companies - Punchdrunk and Shunt. Picture book makers.The Arrival. The Journey. Points of interest - How the five senses are tantalised in immersive theatre and in picturebooks. -
The audience or reader acting as a camera lens.
- World building and authenticity of place.
How to gain trust in your reader/audience to take you inside the world created.
Memories of performance and picture books.
-Showing glimpses of a scene to reveal the whole within the imagination.
-Gently leading the audience/ reader into a space. Allowing them to gain control in the space.
-What props tell us about a character or place. Handwriting in letters.
-Non-linear narratives in storybooks.
-Double page spread analogous with a finale/ wide shot.
-Test audience - Having previews. Equivalent to mid module reviews
-How might the packaging help disorientate the reader.
-Dividing the picturebook into the theatrical elements which are controlled to feed the whole. Lighting, sound, Text,
-Stories told in fragments. How stories told in a series might be an interesting place of research. Receving a letter through the post.
Examples of books.
Helium Dream.
Choose your adventure
Building Stories - Chris Ware.
Game
Ambition:
To create stories that then lead you to a real space you can visit.