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The group decided to not incorporate the CVP and perspective aspect within the final piece as it would clutter the panels. We decided ask David's (tutor) opinion and he gave us the advice of "it's one of those moments where you may want to step away from the canvas", making sure that we don't do to much a ruin what we have worked so hard for. Furthermore, the group was able to show their influences and their perspective through the added inspirations that were individualised by ech member of the group.

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- The complexity and they layering is interesting, as the audience doesn't want to look away as they are always finding new aspects within the piece
- Has very close ties and similarities to the original piece of artwork
- Interesting how each panel has its own story from different disciplines, yet the entire piece of cohesive with all of the elements

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Jed's half of panel 2. Jed has taken on the role of his inspirational teacher, passing her words onto Maddi the same way his teacher did to him. The words are warm and vibrant to symbolise the kind of person she is.

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Panel 3 with my(Alex) influences. My love for film stems from early Disney films such as Aladdin (1992), The Lion King (1994) and Treasure Planet (2002).

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The full Triptych so far.

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Final concept for Lachie's half of panel two. Lachie can explain the significance of the symbol.
Lachlan's Final Concept Explanation:
The symbol represents 'An Octoroon', an Australian who is one eighth black. As I have explained previously, a show produced by Nakkiah Lui called An Octoroon, influenced me to study drama within university instead of sport sciene.
Originally, the concept was to half the panel, one side for Jed and one side for me. My side would have depicted eight transparent squares overlaid the image, with one coloured. But this was discussed and discarded by the group as it was decided that it would detract from what the photograph was showing.
The curved symbol represents a male or female within Aboriginal culture and art. Within the background of this symbol is a pie chart divided into eight sections, with one coloured brown. Furthermore implying an octoroon who is either male or female, and displaying it within an abstract and intriguing way.

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Concept for Lachy's half of panel two. Eight squares and one black to symbolise an octoroon.

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Suiting the original Triptych more. Has Maddi's influence in the bottom right corner and uses an element from that to immerse her.

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Concept of Justin Timberlake dancing with Maddi.

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Whitening the shapes of the viewfinder.

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Panel 2 hinting toward Panel 3 using a camera viewfinder made from shapes on Photoshop.

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Resizing and colour splashing.

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My influence is An Octoroon, originally written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and directed within Australia by Nakkiah Lui. This was influential within my life and my choice of discipline as this was the performance that pushed me to follow drama as a career. It incorporated everything that I love about theatre and opened my eyes to just how powerful the theatre is.

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Example of Colour Splashing on Photoshop

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Example of Colour Splashing on Photoshop

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My main influence for choosing Fine Arts Drama is my Drama teacher in grades 10-12. She was always extremely supportive and helpful, and encouraged me to pursue Drama as a career. I also played as Peter Pan in a grade 10 course production, so that made me realise that I was an above average actor. Drama was one of the few subjects I occasionally looked forward to.

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Justin Timberlake Concert DVD. 2nd grade was the first time I saw live dancing at a concert, the music and the choreography and the dancers inspired me to dance (mostly in my bedroom until I started jazz until 7th grade).

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Editing Plan #1 (and choice not to paint)

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Editing Plan #1 (and choice not to paint)

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Due to our disciplines all having a black box/performance space in common across dance, drama and film, we made an executive decision that painting the background would not be as effective or give off the same effect as Gordon Bennett's Triptych as it would just be black paint. Therefore we have decided to edit the background in Photoshop and find an effect that invokes the appropriate response from viewers.

EDITING PLAN
- Jed download Photoshop
- create mockup of layout (2 options) and decide which we prefer as a group and which serves our message
- begin editing and cropping photos for our final format
- layer lines and CVP boxes over image
- layer external images and influences and any final touches

Note: keep note of all creative decisions and process

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The group undertook the task of capturing images for the Triptych. We decided to take multiple sets of photographs, so that we are prepared to chop and change if needs be.
An aspect that should be metnioned is the decision to outsource for a photogropher. The group had camera's but none had the quialoty nor the cpaiacity ti capture the images we desired. So Alex's frined kindly made the time to capture some images
First set of photogrpahs
These images were taken from a digaional persepctoive, looking across the seats and down towards the stage. This set included the three set images previously discussed (Single of Maddie, shot of Maddie, Jed and Lachie and finally the third shot of everyone), an image of the space with no one within the shot from Alex's frame and finally a shot of Maddie dancing by herself from Alex's frame.
Second set of Photos
The second set of images included all of the same shots as the first, but instated was taken from a forward facing direction, looking straight down at Maddie. The second set of images still included three set images previously discussed (Single of Maddie, shot of Maddie, Jed and Lachie and finally the third shot of everyone), an image of the space with no one within the shot from Alex's frame and finally a shot of Maddie dancing by herself from Alex's frame.

Another aspect that was discues within the creative process was the decision to use a ladscape or portrit shot for specific pannels. We concluded that we shall take the images in a landscape form and if we decide to go down the path of a portrait image, we can crop the orginal one, or if needs be, retake the image.

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This idea is exemplified within the attached photo. It keeps Maddi's full original photo as the background, though the background is edited differently in each third according to each person's discipline influences. This editing could take form of filters, painting or other overlapping images. This is a good potential idea because it it creative, it simplifies the creative process and it is easier on the eye.

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Our first option was to take three photos of the same moment in time from different perspectives to use for the three panels. Our second option was to use a panoramic photo to stretch over the three panels. We decided to go with the first option because 1. It is more creative, 2. A panorama is difficult to take, and the seating is elevated, which makes the possibility of a panorama harder. 3. We would need a third party to take a panorama, and it is likely that they would not be informed on our intentions or plan.

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Panels will be arranged into a panorama type view with Maddison's panel as the centre piece. The Triptych comes together to form one picture.

Recurring elements:

Background

Lines

Curtains at the top of the panels

Abstract imagery that depicts our influences

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I was thinking about how it is quite impossible for an amateur artist like myself to create 3 identical backgrounds. So I was wondering whether we just go with the imperfection of each one being a bit different but painting the same scene? Or if we are short of time and want it to be a bit more precise I can paint the biggest portrait and then we can cut it down.
I also wondering if we therefore only need to take the furthest/bigger photo and reduce the size as an after thought?

What are your thoughts boys?

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Status: Key elements in place but more to come

Discussion of Format

1.       Format – top to bottom smallest to largest (zoom in to zoom out). It’s like you’re experiencing it in the moment. And its also like it’s revealing more as you track your eyes down, showing more layers involved in the creative process.

2.       Size of pictures – Relative to the size of me (Maddi) on stage, aiming to keep that to scale as best as possible

3.       Background – In order to meet the rules and requirements of the Triptych and to not over complicate the image too much, we decided to keep the backgrounds of the images separated.

Powerpoint

Background of original artwork w/ references if needed

First draft

Second third etc draft

Process? Note: need to ask David how much writing is required for the powerpoint

Final piece

Group Showing – Feedback from other artists (Following the structure of evoke, artist question audience answer, neutral question, opinions

Explained concept behind original piece, the layers and inspiration involved in that and how we are adjusting it to relate to us.

What did it evoke?

-          Love the layers throughout the disciplines

-          The panning invokes different levels of involvement.

-          Envokes a ‘realisation’ when everything comes into focus. Clever, thoughtful.

We ask question: Is there anything we can add to create more meaning or significance?

-          Answer: no.

Neutral Questions

“What does the reveal represent?”

The crossing over of disciplines, the influences and effort of multiple disciplines that go into creating a piece and

“The original piece is earthy and bright and you utilised dark colours, what was the intention of that?”

The original piece’s background represented the landscape of the indigenous people, and the mutual background across our disciplines is a black box/stage so therefore our background is a black box/stage. We also have an idea to take this one step further by making the whole background black and white but edit our bodies to have colour, as if we are the colour and the creativity in the space. We make the space what it is, the space doesn’t define what we must do.

Opinion –

“I love that the piece making a statement about the different disciplines and their involvement in making the piece, and not judging on the face value or not acknowledging the other disciplines (a statement or message behind it)”

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First Panel

This panel is an image of Maddison dancing on stage. The Image is taken from the audience perspective within the seats. Yet, there is an out of focus close of a pencil/pen within the image. This is just in a corner as someone holds it, but that person can’t be seen. The pen isn’t the main focus, but instead shall hint for the next panel.

Second Panel

The Second panel depicts Maddison dancing on stage within the same position and Jed and Lachie sitting within the audience, directing. Jed and Lachie are holding a pen/pencil and a stack of paper like a script or manuscript. The Image is taken from behind Jed and Lachie, as it shows rows of seats behind them. To hint to the next panel, the image shall be overlayed with a camera viewfinder, as if the shot is in the proses of being taken. (The viewfinder are the symbols within the camera lenses when you look through it).

Third Panel

The third and final panel is the most complex. The image shall incorporate Alex sitting at a desk with a laptop open. The image shall be taken over his shoulder and show an open laptop with an movie application open. The movie application shall either show the same image of Maddison dancing with Jed and Lachie directing and the viewfinder, or a shot that shows all four of us working, Maddison dancing, Jed and Lachie dancing and Alex filming.

I had this idea at the end of the workshop and I thought it would be worth sharing on Padlet. Please chop and change what you think would be cool,  keen to develop it and get your input on it. I just thought it would be cool to show how different our disciplines are, yet we are all working towards the singular artistic piece. Keen to meet up again with y’all

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