Proposal

Proposal.

Candidate Name	Louise Woodhead
Candidate Number	4470
Pathway	Photography
Project Title	21st century Blackburn.
Section 1: Review (Approx 150 words)
I worked on my unit one and two to gain more knowledge about other types of pathways such as fine art, textile, wirework, as I thought this would be useful when I decided my pathway. I learnt many techniques some of these were spot welding and screen printing. I have learnt a great deal throughout this course.  I have improved and gained more experience within photography I have also put all my previous experience of photography skills into practise within my work this year. My assignments will expand on my experience on the course and as the year progresses by the knowledge I will have gained and learnt over this year.  I will be taking a great amount of critical reflection within my work from tutors and my peers to improve my work when needed. My project will also build on the idea’s I gain through experimenting through this year.
Section 2: Project Concept (approx 250 words)
Throughout this course I will be looking closely at events that have impacted on the community such as trams and the closure of the royal infirmary. I am also looking closely into architectural detail of the buildings within the Blackburn area. I am going to make a large part of my assignment based on the cotton and weaving mills which were the hub of this small town. My aim is to experiment with using different techniques to incorporate the use of angles within my images. Using different mediums within this project would help to improve my outcome, as I aim to interview the ex-mill workers from the era of when the cotton and weaving mills were thriving, I will be looking to incorporate this audio sound interviews into my work. I want to explore different printing by researching different techniques such as layering images on top of each other, I will further this investigation through using these influences to produce my own  experimental pieces of which I would layer my photographs on to old survey maps of the Blackburn area. I will reflect these ideas through having peers critics to see which outcome works best. My main thought with this project is to document how times have changed over the years. I am going show this by layering new modern day Blackburn photographs over the top of old survey map of the town.
Section 3: Evaluation (approx 100 words)
I am intending to provide layered images of Blackburn to help show the viewer’s how the town has changed over the years. I will be evaluating my work as I go along through this project, I will sustain this by evaluating my work thoroughly I will do this by getting one to one tutorial feedback and peers critics, I will also update my blog as a means of a self-evaluation and reflection throughout this project.
Proposed Research Sources and Bibliography (Harvard Format)
Having being influenced by various photographers ranging from documentary and landscape photographers some examples of my influences are; Richard Billingham, Mary Ellen Mark, Martin Parr, Denis Thorpe and Ian Beesley. I took great interest in Ian Beesley series of photographs named ‘’the street’’ as this is who influenced me into documenting Blackburn’s history. I need to visit a varied amount of galleries and museums to gather as much information. Also i will need to loan books out of the library for research and back ground information for my project. I will gather a small amount of research from the internet which I can’t access anywhere else.

Project Action Plan and Timetable
Week	Date Week Beginning	Activity / What you are intending to do - including independent study	Resources / What you will need to do it - including access to workshops
1	27/03/2014	Develop Idea’s for FMP proposal with pathway tutors.	Notebook, writing equipment
2	31/03/2014	Exploring Idea’s and starting to gather different sources of research. Create blog posts starting with this research.	Visit Blackburn Library, Internet connection for updating my blog. Sketch book.
3	10/04/2014	Start to photograph Blackburn, edit photographs, and experiment with angles, evaluations.	Camera, sketch books, blogger updates.
4	14/04/2014	Evaluating images, gathering research from the library.	Sketch book, Blog, a visit to the Library.
5	23/04/2014	Photographing, update sketch books evaluations	Camera, sketch book
6	30/04/2014	Photographing, update sketch book, evaluations	Camera, sketch book
7	07/05/14	Photographing making final images for fmp. Updating blog/sketchbook.	Camera, computer,sketchbook.
8	14/05/14	Thinking of idea’s of how to present work	Tutorial feedback.
9	21/05/14	Decided on collage final image, and book to present my photographs in.	Internet connection for looking at prices of books, collage images together to make my final piece.
10	29/05/14	Develop book and send away for it to come in time for the show, and start to print images ready for the show	Internet connection to buy my book, look in to pricing my images up to be printed reprographics.