"We believe Diversity can enhance Creativity not impede it.
Like the multitude of silhouettes our industry creates, beauty is also individual.
It's not restricted by age, shape, skin tone or size"
- Diversity Now! (2012)
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This unit is designed to build on the creative skills and techniques covered in Level 4. Students will be introduced to methodologies concerned with the design and realisation for a narrative based production within TV and film. Students will interpret scripts and briefs and identify styling requirements, ultimately producing a set of final designs for a chosen performance context. Interdisciplinary relationships, particularly the creative preferences and prejudices of the art director will be encouraged, by fostering the collaboration of students from other disciplines where appropriate. Students will learn how to document their work, present ideas to decision makers, work collaboratively in the role of the designer as well as the artist, work to a timed brief and implement problem solving associated with creative, logistical and technical issues. Students will take into consideration the time constraints; the type and scale of the production; and recognize the special requirements and effects required to produce an effective design that is performed. As well as resources and budgets, students will keep a record of advanced make-up and hair applications, and recognize the permutations of associated health and hygiene issues.
Through an employability-focused approach, students will be also introduced to the diverse roles of the make-up and hair artist/designer within narrative-based TV and Film arenas. The unit, with particular emphasis on the timed assessment, will encourage students to develop key transferable skills in communication, collaboration and negotiation.
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I am excited to get started with this project as it is going to allow me to express my opinions on how I feel about the mannequin-like catwalk models and how their 'perfect' body image is taking over young peoples lives. The media have managed to control the brains of children as they grow into their teenage years leading them to think that to be perfect you have to be stick thin and ill-looking. I look beyond that, and see beauty in finer details of the body or just in their personality. Sometimes what you see isn't what you get, and throughout this blog I want to look beyond what the media look for, and give all ages, races and genders a chance to feel as beautiful as the stick thin, tall, blonde catwalk models of this time.
I will enhance the skills that I have learnt and practised in my first year and will use a diverse range of styles and techniques when planning and designing the final looks for my shoot in order to create three diverse looks for a fashion/beauty film or character based diversity campaign.