My school project! [with photos]

So in 2010 in my last year of high school I had my school photography and design portfolio boards to do. I had been up all night and what-not in the last week or two of school, and spending all of my school days wagging in the library trying desperately to finish my visual arts work by the deadline. 

The Design and Photography work consisted of six A1-sized folio panels - three for Photography and the other three for Design, altogether worth 28 NCEA Level 3 credits on the New Zealand NCEA education system,  AND an 8-A3page workbook showing my deep extensive thinking behind the content of the three Photography boards, so things in November were pretty hectic :P So now I have many new photos to share now after having to take so many to cover them boards!

My concept was dissociation, like, this girl who went into a dissociation fantasy world disconnected from reality, as an escape, defence mechanism etc. to all of the ordinary roboticness in everyday living without imagination and creativity. She feels hopeless, desperate for something more in life, and so goes to the place where she is free and there are random characters there e.g. a bunny and a bee and they are her friends and they are a bit wild and wacky, numbing herself to the realm of reality she once suffered in. I might elaborate on these ideas to you by posting some of my conceptual work from my scholarship workbook.


Here are photos:

I managed to get all of my boards and photography scholarship workbook to the courier that school had organised, narrowly avoiding having to borrow $50+ (NZD) from mum (despite already being in debt and unemployed) to go and send the boards to the courier myself if I missed the courier pickup the school organized which was free for us. For scholarship my workbook was a bit of a mess and I had about 20 artist models. But I hoped that they would see my intentions and ideas well because I have a lot of thinking and symbolism behind those boards.

I was pretty proud with myself and the outcome of my Photography folio boards, thinking an Excellence may even be in the question, but I just got my school results yesterday and unfortunately I didn't even pass the assessment for them! Bullshit in my opinion!

So that's what I get for being a last-minute worker. I guess all the disorganization resulted in me not reeeally exploring all the pictorial elements in mind.

So here is the final outcome of my photography boards, tell me what YOU think :) :


Board 1                                               Board 2

Board 3