For our final process and production with nick, we were to firstly split into three groups to create a mural. We first had to pick a word out of a hat. When putting the words in the hat together it made up the sentence L'imagination prend le pouvoir (Imagination is power). My group selected L'imagination, which we then all had to draw out a typeface individually on a sheet of paper with a grid that represented the larger mural that was set up for the group task to come.
Once each member of the group had drawn out their idea, we then made a group decision of who's design was the favourite. My design was not picked on this occasion, however, the design I voted for was. After this was picked, we got together as a group and discussed what the best plan of action would be in order to transfer this design from an A3 page onto the large mural. It was decided that we would firstly use a pencil to draw out the design onto the mural, and then paint after that.
We all had a column that would be our own responsibility, which helped the team know exactly which area needed to be done by them, and made the whole process a lot smoother. As part of this task, we were only able to use one colour. We used red for our section of the sentence, however, we decided that just merely filling in the typeface in one solid colour wouldn't be very interesting. Therefore, we incorporated a checkerboard effect onto the mural with the paint, having some areas of the text filled in, and other areas of the negative space filled in opposed to the typeface.
When creating the stop motion for this mural, we decided that we wanted it to start as an abstract piece. The idea was that the word would not be recognisable until the end of the image sequence. This added a little bit more interest in my opinion.
I enjoyed this workshop for a few reasons. One was because it allowed me to work as part of a team in order to create a larger piece instead of completing an individual task like many other processes and production workshops entail, which helped with team-working along with adopting a leadership role in some ways. Secondly, the concept behind this workshop was interesting as I had never made a mural before and it was enjoyable to create something such as this with the help of peers. Finally, because of the nature of the project, it was very social and ended up being a fun activity to take part in. My group all got along throughout and ended up creating a nice piece.
