Evaluation...

When I was first told the brief to this project I was quite confused and I felt rather uninspired. I think this was due to the fact that the whole project is called 'Goodbye to Berlin' when it should probably be called Diversity. I was introduced to everything with the book Goodbye to Berlin and the film inspired by the book, Cabaret, making me believe we could only create final images based on this era or the characters in both stories. I was then even more confused when I was also introduced to short films such as modern catwalk shows with plus size models, film trailers featuring the fashionable elderly, discussing race, age, size, disabilities, shocking behaviour, models and the media. Finally it was a lot clearer that I could create a look which shows any form of beauty, diversity or even a character or image from the Berlin stories. After jumping from idea to idea I reached an idea that made me feel more comfortable with this project and started to enjoy myself. I chose to show the a mixture of different culture and race that my friend is. Radhika is a British citizen, lived in Britain all her life but what I found interesting, inspiring and amazing is that her Father's family is from Jamaica and her Mother's family is from India. I decided to create three final images creating looks for my model that portray her background. I did much research both on the internet and I also contacted her parents to help me decide how to create her Indian and Jamaican looks. I really enjoyed producing my three final images, but my favourite look is most probably the Indian picture as she looks the most different and it looks the most beautiful. If I could reshoot any of the images for any reason I would shoot the Jamaican images in a larger studio with a wider backdrop as I has photographs of my model dancing with her arms stretched out and they would have looked great if the background was all the same. In my practical seminars I really enjoyed the scratch wig work and surprisingly, the timed assessments. I found it fun and thrilling creating a look for someone else to produce on myself and vice versa. I thought mine and my partner's final images turned out great and himself and I should be very proud of ourselves considering we had never been set a task like this before and neither of us feel as confident in makeup as much as we are with hair. I also feel we worked great together, not only ensuring we gave a structured plan to each other, but we had fun with the assessment too. Overall, after wasting quite a bit of time being confused with what the project wanted me to create, I have enjoyed the skills I have learned, the tasks I have been set and especially loved my final images and idea that inspired me to produce them.