Wear a mask of your self -Brief- post 2

Testing and Development. 

• This was the initial final mask design. The design has been painted on by acrylics and black ink. I think that these are really effective materials because they allowed me to use bold solid colors which would be effective up close and from a distance. And when they are photographed will look striking and it will be clear that they are the main focal point of the image.  

• Test photo before taking the final photo and in not so sure that it is communicating confusion. I'm not so happy with the outcome and I think I could have done a better job, the idea isn't good enough and I can make more used of the idea of taking the final image in a location.

• As a result I took the risk of changing my idea. However this owl design is something I came up with in an answer to a summer brief . An owl represents me in the way of character. I own owls and I think that they a fanatic creatures, they are curious , silly , funny and clumsy and I think that I have some of these characteristics. I decided to do the bird in bright blue again for effect and kept the materials the same, also added cardboard cut outs around the outside for texture and shape. 

• Problems faced on location(local park) include the lighting of the image, because I was using natural light I was hard to find a lighting in which the mask could be seen clearly , also the materials that I used reflected the light and so made it harder to get a clear image.
• To solve the problem I mainly relayed on shadows from leaves and branches of trees, which worked well in relation natural habitat of the creature on the mask and also the varied tones it created.