Wednesday, 17 November 2010

John Conrad's Silver Arts Award

Hello and welcome to my quest to obtain the Silver Arts Awards. I recently achieved my Bronze Award and as so I could start working towards the Silver.

17/11/10

For my Silver Award I will be putting together a portfolio of my achievements and how I plan to improve my skills of photography and filming. While I am putting my portfolio together, I shall be working on my skills to display the effects of mental health which will be used in an up-coming event. I will be mainly focusing on the mental health of someone who has depersonalization, derealization, ADHD and asperger's disorder.

24/11/10

The way I will display this is by creating a person with these problems and be interviewed, asking how the mental disorders affect the every day to day activies and lifestyle. I will also be asking how the person deals with the disorders and if they are getting any help from a mental health team in the local area.

1/12/10

I've started to write out the questions that will be asked during the interview and the decided who will be taking certain roles during the project. I plan to do the whole filming project as a workshop that will hopefully give the crew the needed skills for future projects.
I'm now gathering images and taking my own pictures to which I will edit to display a different kind of world which will show what some people with mental health disorders see or feel in normal public areas. I will be using photoshop elements for the of the editing process and try and create the atmosphere I'm after.


6/12/10

After much searching I have found 10 images that I feel would be suitable, after editing, for the iMind event. The images I was focusing on were to do with multi-personality disorder and derealisation and displaying some images with the person on one side and a demonic form of the person on the other. The idea of the demonic form of the person is displaying their other personality(s) as their demon(s) that they cannot escape. Some of the derealistation will be displaying streets or rooms and then have a picture were it could be see through someone elses eyes, such as being a clear day walking down a street on the first picture and then on the second would be foggy or rain. The rain can be linked to depression.













Review: Biffy Clyro - God & Satan

Here are three comments I found from from the video's location and I believed they raised some really good important points:

Can you lot please shut up. Here is not the place to be debating the pros and cons of Christianity. Just enjoy the song and stop insulting what some people believe in.

i'd say it was about paganism tbh, or being uncertian about your religion and maybe doubting God. "i know for sure that someone is watching but is it from up or down?"

Displaying both uncertiantanty and possibly pagamism.


the song is about being in a mental state! no religion!!

Lyrics:

I talk to God as much as I talk to Satan 'cause I want to hear both sides

Does that make me cynical
There are no miracles
And this is no miraculous life

I savour hate as much as I crave love because
I'm just a twisted guy
Is this the pinnacle, is this the pinnacle, the pinnacle of being alive
Now I see the light

Well I look up to god but I see trouble 'cause this aint a miracle
I just want to take my chance to live through a miracle

Ooah
Ooah

I know for certain that some one is watching but is it from up or down
I make you miserable you stick with me although
you know I'm gonna ruin your life

I talk to God as much as i talk to Satan 'cause I want to hear both sides
Does that make me cynical
There are no miracles
And this is no miraculous life

We walk into the tide

Well I look up to god but I see trouble 'cause this ain't no miracle
I just want to take my chance to live through a miracle

When the see-saw snaps and splinters your hand don't come crying to me
I'll only see your good side
And believe it's a miracle
A miracle

I slap the water and watch
The fish dance in the ripples of us
We're just stubborn duds
Blinking eyes encased in rust

This aint a miracle
This aint a miracle
This aint a miracle
This aint a miracle

Ooah
Ooah


LINK TO GOD & SATAN

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